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energy
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by Greg Carlock - March 06, 2020The American Energy Innovation Act might become the first major energy bill from the U.S. Congress in over a decade. The bill is not comprehensive climate change legislation, but it could provide incremental progress on clean energy and emissions reduction.
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by Mengpin Ge and Johannes Friedrich - February 06, 2020Data shows that the energy sector produces 73% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and 10 countries account for more than two-thirds of annual emissions.
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by Kajol, Jessica Quezada Medina, Ashok Kumar Thanikonda and Deepak Sriram Krishnan - January 2020This practice note captures our experiences from our pilot efforts with aggregating demand for Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (MSME) clusters. By focusing on the end-user demand side and on energy intensive consumers, we expect to multiply the benefits of the supply-side efforts of the Indian government.
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by Sumedha Malaviya, Sumathy Krishnan, Santhosh Cibi, Kajol, Shreya Nath and Deepak Sriram Krishnan - January 2020This working paper describes WRI India’s experience aggregating demand for clean energy in apartment complexes of Bengaluru India.
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by Lacey Shaver - January 23, 2020American cities, states and businesses have already come a long way on the road to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Here are four clean energy trends to watch in the coming year in cities in the U.S.
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by Eric Mackres - January 22, 2020While very few countries are on track for achieving a zero-carbon energy system by 2050, China, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ethiopia and the United Kingdom are further along than many.
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by Lori Bird and Tyler Clevenger - December 20, 2019Fifteen states now have official targets to get at least 50% of their electricity from clean sources. These states represent 28% of U.S. electric power demand, up from just 17% last year.
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by Subrata Chakrabarty, Noëmie Leprince-Ringuet, Ranping Song and Alexander Tankou - December 2019This guidance aims to help countries incorporate more ambitious, relevant, and tangible power solutions into enhanced NDCs for communication to the UNFCCC by 2020.
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by Jennifer Layke - December 02, 2019While the world collectively reduced its coal capacity over the past 18 months, China added 43 gigawatts (GW). The move may ultimately increase the economic costs of China’s energy economy over the coming decades.
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December 16, 2019
This workshop will examine the Forward Clean Energy Markets policy proposal, which would create a competitive market for clean energy attribute credits. The proposal aims to provide an option that enables states to achieve their policy goals in alignment with wholesale market design. Workshops participants will learn more about the proposed model and have the opportunity to discuss its benefits and drawbacks, potential impacts and pathways for implementation, and relevance to specific regions within the U.S.
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by Norma Hutchinson and Lori Bird - November 2019This paper explores the range of approaches and emerging program designs currently used in the United States to match EV loads and renewable energy, with an emphasis on methods that more closely link the timing and location of the EV demand with renewable energy supply.
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by Amala Devi and Pamli Deka - October 24, 2019Solar panels can help rural doctors in India maintain reliable electricity and save more lives. But remote hospitals remain a largely untapped market for renewables.
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by Heidi Ratz, Lori Bird and Karl Hausker - October 17, 2019Behind the U.S. power grid, electricity markets are just as important as physical power plants and transmission lines. To expand the country's clean energy, the rules of the market will need to change.
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by Devashree Saha and Dan Lashof - October 10, 2019Pennsylvania's planned entry into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative marks the first time a major fossil-fuel producing state has joined the cooperative, which aims to cap carbon dioxide emissions from electric power plants. It won't solve all the Keystone State's energy challenges, but it's a big step forward.
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by Jack McClamrock, Lihuan Zhou and Giulia Christianson - October 10, 2019We analyzed the effects of water shortages on five publicly traded Indian thermal power companies. In some cases, drought caused significant financial impacts, and investors should start stress-testing their portfolios now for climate impacts.
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Financial Implications of Parched Power: Insights from an Analysis of Indian Thermal Power Companies
This paper provides quantitative evidence to help investors better understand and measure the financial impacts from water shortages in the thermal power sector, drawing on data and analysis of Indian companies. It introduces a new methodology to estimate the water shortage-induced impacts to earnings on five Indian thermal power companies from FY 2014-2017. It also uses outputs from climate models to analyze potential future changes to water availability in India, which could increase the risk of water shortages.
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Developing and industrialized countries commit to decarbonize their building sector to achieve massive CO2 reductions.
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A new coalition of countries, businesses and international organizations today committed to driving a 3% global increase in energy efficiency each year – a move that can help limit climate change and increase global prosperity.
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by Tatsatom Gonçalves and Debbie Weyl - September 17, 2019China's market for new buildings is booming. Constructing zero carbon buildings would enable China and other countries to keep up with demand without further fueling climate change.