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Building More Energy Storage Means Building the Right Incentives
In recent years, the falling costs and increasing capacity of lithium ... storage. As prices continue to drop for batteries and other competing storage technologies—such as pumped hydro, compressed air, and reversible
Four Decades of Navigating Climate Politics
: Rafe Pomerance and David Roberts. Pomerance has been working on climate ... Center senior fellow, is a journalist at Vox and one of the foremost climate and energy writers in the country. The conversation on climate
Teeming with Carbon Taxes
what has been proposed thus far: January 24: Energy Innovation and ... Act, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE)July 25: Stemming Warming and Augmenting ... Act, John Larson (D-CT) Before we dig into the similarities and
On Climate, Forget 2 Degrees. Let’s Talk Net Zero
shelves, and extreme weather of both the dry and wet varieties. Instead ... climate illness, carbon dioxide emissions and the broader class of greenhouse gasses that includes methane and HFCs. The semantic distinction
The Distribution Grid Gap on Cybersecurity
Power grid resilience and security are front-and-center in national ... resources (i.e. coal and some nuclear units) takes attention away from more ... protections. The distribution grid is becoming more digital and dynamic, as
The (Yet?) Non-existent Pipeline that Already Divides Europe
state and top industry leaders from Russia, Germany, France, and the ... Gazprom and Western European firms: E.ON, BASF/Wintershall, OMV, Engie, and Royal Dutch Shell to form a new consortium that would execute the plan and
FERC Says No to Resilience NOPR
merchant nuclear and coal plants that store 90 days of fuel on site. FERC ... grid reliability and resilience pricing (Resilience NOPR), in no uncertain terms. The order noted the NOPR “…did not satisfy those clear and
Zero Emissions Credits: An Overview
. Since their creation, ZECs have excited some, frustrated others, and ... value of the ZEC is quantified based on the social cost of carbon and energy market prices, and it will vary: as market prices decrease, the ZEC
It’s Time for a Market-Oriented Approach to Clean Energy Investment in Pennsylvania
-justifiable distributed clean energy and energy efficiency projects waiting to be developed ... minimum needed to meet modest state requirements for alternative energy and ... (CGC). (Full disclosure: I participated in some meetings and discussions
Washington State Technocrats Spurn the ‘Alberta Approach’
and climate policy advocates, the policy is a big deal. For years ... . The Albertan process involved input from industry and environmentalist ... and many environmental groups coming out against the measure alongside