Tag: Policy Research
Anti-Solar Actions In USA Are Restricting Energy Supply; Right When The Grid Can Least Afford It
The Trump Administration is waging an unprecedented, cross-agency campaign to restrict clean energy deployment. Between the upending of tax policy, new punitive, anti-solar regulation, and an unabashed pro-fossil fuels agenda, this administration is creating instability that is scaring off investors, weakening grid reliability, and driving up electricity prices. At the same time the … [continued]
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Nevada’s Lost Sunlight: What Esmeralda 7 Tells Us About America’s Energy Future
When the Bureau of Land Management quietly changed a single line on its website this month, almost nobody noticed. There was no press conference, no formal announcement, no congressional testimony. Yet with that edit, one of the largest clean energy projects in the world ceased to exist. Esmeralda 7, a … [continued]
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Leaked Car Industry Paper: Carmakers’ EU Demands Would Cut EV Sales In Half
Carmaker lobby ACEA wants to turn Europe’s car regulation into a “Swiss cheese — full of holes.” The car industry is demanding loopholes in the EU car CO2 law that would halve the bloc’s ambition of selling only zero-emission cars in 2035. That’s according to T&E analysis of a leaked position … [continued]
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From Gray Glue to Green Foundations: Cement’s 2100 Transition
The publication of the white paper Beyond Portland: Cement’s Transition to 2100 by TFIE Strategy Inc comes at a moment when the cement and concrete industries stand at the center of the global climate challenge. Cement is everywhere—in the foundations of homes, the bridges that span rivers, the ports that … [continued]
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Endless Sunlight, Endless Costs: The Economic Reality of Space Solar Power
Space-based solar power is having another moment in the sun. The idea has been circulating for more than half a century, rising and fading with each new wave of optimism about technology’s ability to overcome gravity. The renewed excitement today stems from one thing: China has joined the conversation. When … [continued]
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