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The process of planning electric power systems has always been characterized by uncertainty, but several new forces have emerged that make the resource planning problem more challenging than in the recent past.
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Maine's "Pathways to 2040" report explores practical strategies for advancing clean energy while balancing cost and reliability. Learn more about the valuable insights that inform decision-making and support Maine's energy transition.
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Green Electrolytic Hydrogen and renewable fuels are pivotal to Washington's ambitious energy transformation. Here we uncover the economic pathways, modeling insights, and next steps for the deployment of hydrogen across the Evergreen State.
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched its Energy Earthshots Initiative in 2021 to drive innovation breakthroughs for technologies across the energy sector. The initiative currently includes aggressive cost targets for six critical areas: hydrogen, carbon removal, long duration storage, enhanced geothermal, floating offshore wind, and low-carbon industrial heat.
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Portland General Electric (PGE) recently filed its combined Clean Energy Plan (CEP) and Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). To support this effort, PGE retained EER to undertake an independent analysis evaluating pathways to achieve Oregon's keynote environmental policies limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions: (1) HB 2021, which establishes emissions
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The U.S. and international research community consistently find that energy efficiency, clean electricity and electrification are essential and urgent “pillars” of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, additional mitigation strategies are required to bridge the gap to net-zero GHG emissions by mid-century. In March 2022, EER published Carbon Management
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The EER team has released a white paper to advance understanding of carbon management's role in energy and industry to facilitate the U.S. achieving net-zero GHG emissions by mid-century. The analysis underpinning the white paper features state-of-art modeling of a net-zero U.S. energy system and incorporates
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Achieving net-zero GHG emissions by mid-century requires a shift to low-carbon technologies throughout our energy system, many of which are not yet at significant commercial scale. This suggests that R&D has a critical role to play in enabling the technologies that are necessary to rapidly reduce emissions. How