U.S. Data Center Emissions Through 2040
With demand outpacing clean energy, data center emissions could increase up to 110% in 4 years.
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Winter Is the New Summer: The Seasonal Grid Stress Ahead
If the only things we can build are solar and data centers, grid planners are going to have a whole new season to worry about.
Modeling Oregon’s Clean Energy Future
Evolved Energy Research served as the Oregon Department of Energy’s modeling partner, helping shape and communicate a data-driven roadmap for Oregon’s clean, affordable, and resilient energy future.
How OBBBA Rewrites America’s Energy Transition
New modeling explores how U.S. power systems evolve through 2040 under a reversal of federal policy.
Guest Lecture: Modeling Energy System Futures with Ensemble
Co-founder, Ben Haley, presented an updated version of a policy analysis of the One Big Beautiful Act, this time using Ensemble, the cutting-edge modeling to generate alternatives methodology.
What Data Center Flexibility Really Costs
New modeling examines the costs of data center flexibility for operators and how optimal mixes of backup generation and storage shift as flexible load increases.
Modeling the Dynamics of EV Adoption: An Agent-Based Approach
Agent-Based Modeling can simulate heterogeneous household dynamics and neighborhood variables that influence EV adoption. We demonstrate these methods looking at EV adoption in California with and without the Inflation Reduction Act tax credits.
Unlocking Diverse Technology Futures for Net Zero Australia
Evolved unveils our cutting-edge modeling technique, Ensemble, to explore net zero pathways for Australia.
Current Crosswords
Ready for a break? Here we have a collection of mini crosswords, each containing an nod to the energy transition.
The Life and Death of a Well-Traveled Shrimp
(and Accounting for its Embodied Carbon)
Under Pressure: How Data Center Growth Strains the U.S. Electricity Grid
Explosive growth in data center and crypto demand is straining the U.S. grid, reviving coal, and driving up emissions—unless policymakers act fast.
News Roundup: Growing Media Impact of our OBBB Analysis
Media coverage of our OBBB analysis is accelerating—here's how Evolved and REPEAT are shaping national and regional conversations on clean energy rollback.
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Quiz! "One Big Beautiful Bill" Edition
What are the impacts of the now-enacted "One Big Beautiful Bill"? Take the quiz below to learn how Evolved modeled the consequences of this new law the energy transition.
Policy Impacts
Impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill on the U.S. Energy Transition
EER's latest REPEAT modeling shows how the OBBB derails the energy transition by raising emissions, increasing household energy bills, and slowing clean energy investment.
Siting & GIS
Downscaling: Mapping the clean energy transition
Learn what Downscaling is, how it's used in energy modeling, and why it transforms how we interact with siting, transmission, and planning.
Spotlights
Spotlight: Benjamin Preneta
Senior Analyst and former Summer Fellow at Evolved, Benjamin Preneta, brings a cross-sector mindset and geospatial fluency to downscaling, a tool that helps turn big-picture energy plans into real-world actions.
Summer Fellows
In the Field: Evolved team in San Diego
Evolved folks from around North America gathered in San Diego to launch new projects and welcome new team members.
Policy Impacts
A Fork in the Road: Impacts of Federal Policy Repeal on the U.S. Energy Transition
Princeton and EER's most recent REPEAT Project report analyzes a potential repeal of current federal energy and climate policies, presenting a bleak outlook of significant increases to greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs.
Summer Fellows
Evolved Welcomes this Year's Summer Fellows
Our Summer Fellows have launched their respective research projects: developing an agent-based EV model, and forecasting in the era of data centers. Welcome aboard!
Demand Forecasting
Navigating Uncertainty in Electricity Planning
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.
Decarbonization
Biomass and Land Use in a Decarbonizing US Economy
A new working paper by the WRI, with analysis from Evolved
Markets & Economy
Scaling the Exploration of Energy Systems
Hear from our founders about what we are currently developing at Evolved for release over the coming year.
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Evolved Word Flower
Play the Word Flower, our recurring word puzzle where the ultimate goal is to uncover a hidden energy-themed word. Create as many words as possible using a given set of letters on the petals that surround a central letter (letters can be used more than once). Every word must include
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Evolved Word Reveal
Like Wordle, but we're just not calling it that...