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DOE’s Lifeline to Transmission Siting for Renewables

cheap wind energy to the southeast U.S. The $2.5 billion Plains and ... Oklahoma and Texas, to areas of higher demand in Arkansas and Tennessee ... deployment and integration of renewable energy onto the electrical grid.  Some

EV Market Hits Its Tipping Point

energize a transportation revolution include Nissan’s Leaf and BMW’s i3.  In ... style and a price to match, but also came up short on endurance.   Yet ... .  If the high stakes and recent, almost universal rush by manufacturers to

The Case for Nature-Based Solutions

Richter, Penn Professor of German and Dutch Studies

The Carbon Shock: Investor Response to the British Columbia Carbon Tax

the context of financial and economic risk. After the former Bank of ... a variety of fields not only limited to finance and economics have ... affect economic variables, and additionally, investor behavior

Can Local Participation Help Solve the Oil Curse?

handful of multinational “supermajors” and state-run firms. Local private firms typically lack the know-how, financing, and technology to conduct the capital-intensive work of drilling and pumping oil. But this

Tax Substitution as Climate Policy for Hard-to-Decarbonize Sectors

economic activity and, consequently, faces strong resistance from current ... sector accounts for 2.5% of CO2 emissions and 3.5% of the effects leading ... and fast expansion of service networks. Still, alternative fuel

Ahmed Abdellah

Student Advisory Council Member Ahmed Abdellah is a Kleinman Center Student Advisory Council Member and is a student studying in the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER) program. Abdellah was

Closing Loopholes in Carbon Offset Regulation

Some carbon emissions are too difficult and expensive to eliminate ... lowest cost possible, many companies and countries plan to use carbon ... patchwork of voluntary registries and standards like the Gold Standard

Can Philly Force the Rotten Roots of PGW to Sprout a Green Transition?

Philadelphia Gas Works—as long as one century and a half—came to a head. The ... mistake” and a “massive failure in leadership.” “The citizens of our city, the customers of PGW, and our own city workers will feel the negative

Decarbonizing Transportation: Is the IRA Enough?

$370 billion in climate and clean energy investments to decarbonize the ... States— and thereby help the country reach the Paris Agreement commitment ... the economy by promoting national industries and creating millions of