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Decarbonization

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.

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How OBBBA Rewrites America’s Energy Transition

New modeling explores how U.S. power systems evolve through 2040 under a reversal of federal policy.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Advancing Energy Goals through Political Turbulence and Funding Uncertainty

Stable Policy, funding, and advocacy are critical to the future of clean energy, but are at risk. Where do we go from here?

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Climate Progress 2024: The REPEAT Project’s Annual Emissions Update

Examining U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trends and Opportunities for a Net-Zero Future

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Science Publication: Impacts of the IRA

EER’s work modeling the impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as a part of the REPEAT project, together with analyses from 8 other models, has been published in the paper “Emissions and energy impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act” in the journal Science. The paper is an inter-model

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45V Tax Credit: Three-Pillars Impact Analysis

The IRA requires emissions from hydrogen production to be less than 0.45 kg CO2e/kg H2 in order to qualify for the full ($3.0/kg) 45V clean hydrogen production tax credit. This credit is extremely valuable and represents a substantial share of the economic proposition for clean hydrogen

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EER Study Supports PGE's 2023 CEP/IRP

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