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The Stakes for Energy Costs in Budget Reconciliation
We estimate how much energy costs could rise for households and industry if Congress chooses to roll back and repeal key pollution regulations and energy tax credits.
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The Potential for Geothermal Energy to Meet Growing Data Center Electricity Demand
Next-generation geothermal energy has a number of advantages in meeting growing electricity demand from data centers. We estimate how much of this demand could potentially be served by geothermal over the next decade.
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Transatlantic Clean Investment Monitor: A Perspective on Batteries
This note is the third in a series of quarterly briefings comparing clean technology deployment and manufacturing trends in Europe and the United States as part of a collaboration between Bruegel and Rhodium Group.
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Clean Investment Monitor: Q4 2024 Update
In the final quarter of 2024, clean energy and transportation investment in the United States totaled $70 billion, reflecting a slight 1% decline from the previous quarter but a 6% increase from the same period in 2023.
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Taking Stock 2018
We find that US emissions under current policy are heading towards 12 to 20% below 2005 levels in 2025, a far cry from the US Paris commitment of a 26-28% reduction.
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The Footprint of US Carbon Pricing Plans
While carbon pricing is gaining new momentum within a growing number of states, prices apply to only a fraction of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and prices are relatively low.
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Sizing Up a Potential Fuel Economy Standards Freeze
The footprint-based system of CAFE standards gives automakers flexibility to comply, even when gas is cheap and drivers opt for less efficient cars. But low oil prices make the standards themselves more important as a driver of fuel economy gains.
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Transcending Oil: Hawaii’s Path to a Clean Energy Economy
What does the future hold for Hawaii? We find it is cheaper to accelerate the clean energy transition than cruise toward the 2045 renewables targets.
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The World’s Second Largest Blackout
What was already the largest blackout in American history has now likely become, in our analysis, the second largest blackout in the world.
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Final US Emissions Numbers for 2017
Energy-related emissions fell by 0.66% last year, half their 2005-2016 average rate. Power sector emissions continued to decline, but emissions from transport, buildings and industry all grew, offsetting half the decline in the power sector.
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China Energy Snapshot 2017
After three years of decline, Chinese coal demand recovered modestly – up 3.3% year-on-year. Oil demand grew by 4.6% and natural gas by nearly 16% as Beijing stepped up its air pollution control efforts.
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U.S. Carbon Tax Design: Options and Implications
In this initial scoping paper, Jason Bordoff and John Larsen lay out the set of issues to be addressed by identifying the key design choices to be made in implementing a carbon tax.
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Preliminary US Emissions Estimates for 2017
The US appears on track to meet it’s 2020 emission reduction pledge under the 2009 Copenhagen Accord but will need to significantly accelerate the current pace of emission reductions to meet it’s Paris Agreement targets.
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The Year in Coal
President Trump came into office promising to bring about an American coal renaissance by rolling back Obama-era environmental regulations. After one year in office, how did he do?
