Economic Impact & Competitive Analysis + Market Design, Energy System Economics & Asset Valuation, technology evaluation
Policy Impacts
Evolved Energy Research (EER), in collaboration with the ZERO Lab at Princeton University, modeled the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) recently passed by the US Senate. EER’s work, as part of the Rapid Energy Policy Evaluation and Analysis Toolkit (REPEAT), has provided timely, independent assessments
Markets & Economy
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
Markets & Economy
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
Markets & Economy
Marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves have become the de facto starting point for comparing GHG emission reduction measures since being popularized more than a decade ago. While these analyses remain widely recognized, traditional MAC methodologies are ill-suited for providing key insights for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. A new MAC
Markets & Economy
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
Markets & Economy
Electricity systems sit at the hub of decarbonization pathways and two broadly recognized strategies, electrification and increases in renewable generation, have far reaching consequences for electricity markets. A new article "Electrification and the Future of Electricity Markets" published in IEEE Power & Energy Magazine written by the Evolved
Demand Forecasting
Evolved Energy Research is a co-author on a new report released by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) exploring the demand-side impacts of high electrification in the U.S. The report uses the EnergyPATHWAYS model to map multiple electrification trajectories in buildings, industry, and transport. The next study phase will
Markets & Economy
I spoke recently at the International Conference on Energy Systems Integration held at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. The subject of the talk was the imperative to pursue electric sector coupling opportunities (direct electrification and electric fuels production) as a strategy to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. This
Decarbonization
Evolved Energy Research’s work is featured in a new report titled "From Risk to Return: Investing in a Clean Energy Economy.” This report is from the Risky Business Project, an initiative founded by Michael Bloomberg, Hank Paulson and Tom Steyer, that originally examined the risk that climate change