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The Easiest Carbon Tax to Pass
) the carbon tax itself threatened to increase prices on consumer ... carbon tax for everyone on the political spectrum. Improve the name ... ,” such as the Baker Schultz Carbon Dividends Plan, has been proven to
Energy Transition Puts Grid Reliability to the Test
, PJM is just part-way through its new process, trying to streamline the ... needed for reliable grid operation in just five years. The potential ... supply in the market could fall short of the level needed for reliable grid
Superblocks: Barcelona’s Plan to Free Itself from Cars
economy or for the poor souls who live on the remaining through streets ... how to establish a level of noise for residents that fell within the ... their way into the city’s official urban mobility plan, launching it on a
Balancing Act: Can Petrochemicals Be Both Emissions Free and Zero-Waste?
solutions. This report attempts to illustrate why putting the burden of embedded carbon on the petrochemical producers may be essential to support a ... feedstock for HVCs depends on several factors including the production volume
Florida Will Be the First State to Swing on Climate
This piece was first published in Forbes on September 24, 2019. It is ... its way up the political food chain, and the state where the issue is climbing fastest is Florida. Of the 25 U.S. cities most vulnerable to rising
Can Competitive Electricity Markets Deliver Reliable Power?
-serving entity, somebody to manage that price risk for them. The way that they ... investment in flexible resources essential to the reliability of a grid that is ... monopolies that had dominated the industry for nearly a century were forced to
How Uruguay Went (Almost Completely) Fossil Fuel Free
talk to us about the actual plan for how the renewables were brought on ... to 2015 served as Director of Energy for Uruguay. By the end of his ... highlighted Méndez Galain's role in seeing that transition through. On the
Polar Stress Test Revisits Gas-Powered Grids
reliability doesn’t seem to be a concern, yet. The next story in PJM is coal ... seems to be the big story in ISO-NE. On January 2, oil-fired generators ... relies on natural gas as its primary fuel to power the grid, but also faces
De-Risking the Clean Energy Transition Through Electricity Resilience
, representing both the Global North and Global South, offered insight on how to ... because keeping the lights on allows people to rebuild their social and ... dispatchability and flexibility of on-grid resources—can be used to improve the
Traveling Across the United States the Old-Fashioned Way
at me for choosing to take the train instead of the plane to get to the ... passed a law to replace several domestic flights in the country with rail ... to cross the country in an attempt to reduce emissions. However, we can