Associate Director
Eric G. O’Rear is an Associate Director 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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Decarbonization in the transportation sector faces three key barriers: cost, namely a “green premium,” a slow pace of stock turnover, and limits on the availability of feedstocks and fuels.
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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.
Interactive
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.
