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Direct Air Capture Deployment and Economic Opportunity: State-by-State
In a data dashboard, we take a look at what the potential for direct air capture industry scale-up means for individual states and how they might benefit.
Senior Analyst
Eric G. O’Rear is a Senior Analyst with Rhodium Group’s Energy & Climate practice, focusing on early-stage technology deployment and economic analyses.
Energy & ClimateEric’s areas of expertise include energy/environmental policy analysis, energy system modeling, as well as building sustainability and resilience.
Prior to joining Rhodium, Eric was a Lead Economist with the MITRE Corporation, where he conducted economic research for a wide range of federal sponsors. Before that, he worked as a Research Economist in the Applied Economics Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he assisted in the development of tools capable of gauging the sustainable performance of U.S. residential and commercial buildings. Eric has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics with a specialty in Energy and Natural Resource Economics from Purdue University.
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In a data dashboard, we take a look at what the potential for direct air capture industry scale-up means for individual states and how they might benefit.
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State-by-state analysis of the job creation benefits and economic opportunities from carbon capture retrofits.
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We assess the workforce development and occupation opportunities from building up the sustainable aviation fuels industry.
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Direct air capture has the potential to play a pivotal role in meeting long-term US decarbonization targets. To achieve scale, the emerging industry will require a large, well-trained workforce.