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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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Rhodium Group’s Energy & Climate practice uses a multidisciplinary, data-driven approach to produce unique, independent insights into global energy dynamics, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change.
We help public and private decision-makers understand what kind of climate future we are on track for, and what matters most for reducing greenhouse gas emissions—at the local, state, national, and international levels. By combining policy expertise with a suite of detailed energy-economic models, our research provides data-driven insights into the impacts of energy and climate change policy and real-world developments on greenhouse gas emissions, energy markets, economic output, and clean technology pathways.
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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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Assessing the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of the US Petrochemical Industry
One key driver of sustained industrial emissions is the growth of emissions associated with petrochemical manufacturing in the US, which we estimate could rise by 6-32% by 2030 over today's levels.
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Preliminary US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimates for 2024
Since peaking in 2004, US emissions have trended downward in a bumpy fashion. But after a significant decline in 2023, we estimate that 2024 emissions were down by just 0.2% year-on-year while the economy grew by 2.7%.
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Impacts of EPA’s Finalized Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Standards | Science
In an article published in Science, Rhodium Group and 11 other organizations provide a multi-model comparison of the greenhouse gas emissions impacts of the EPA’s May 2024 standards for regulating greenhouse gases from power plants.
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Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 1990-2022 and Preliminary 2023 Estimates
We estimate that global GHG emissions rose in 2023 by 1.2% over the previous year, reaching 51.8 gigatons of CO2-equivalent on net. This follows a 1.0% increase in 2022 as countries recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic disruptions of 2020.
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Rhodium Climate Outlook: Setting the Stage for Ambitious 2035 NDCs
We set a foundation for 2035 expectations for G20 economies by comparing projected emissions under today’s baseline with prospective reductions that would be required to stay on a straight-line path from their 2030 NDCs to their mid-century targets.
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Rhodium Climate Outlook 2024: Probabilistic Global Emissions and Energy Projections
The likely evolution of global greenhouse gas emissions and temperature rise through the end of the century, and energy trends in the world's major economies
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Taking Stock 2024: US Energy and Emissions Outlook
In our annually updated outlook for US greenhouse gas emissions under current federal and state policy, we find that the US is on track to reduce emissions 38-56% below 2005 levels by 2035, absent any additional new action.
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EPA’s New Standards for Power Plants
EPA recently finalized new standards for regulating greenhouse gases from power plants. We analyze what the new rules mean for electric power GHG and conventional pollutant emissions into the next decade.
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Tech-Neutral Tax Credits: The Foundation of US Electric Power Decarbonization
From a decarbonization perspective, tax guidance on the technology-neutral 45Y and 48E tax credits for clean electricity may be the single most important Inflation Reduction Act implementation action the IRS will take.
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State Climate Ambition With the Inflation Reduction Act
State action has been a key historic driver of climate ambition, and additional policy action by states can help further close the gap between current emissions projections and US 2030 climate targets. In addition, states can leverage investments mad
