Publication Year
2024
Challenges to Expanding EV Adoption and Policy Responses
November 18, 2024
Electric vehicles (EVs) offer a vital solution in global efforts to combat climate change, especially as the transportation sector accounts […]
Choosing Climate Policies in a Second-best World with Incomplete Markets
October 2, 2024
The U.S. government relies on investment tax credits to increase private-sector investment in renewable energy. Other governments, as well as […]
Bridging the Gaps: The Impact of Interregional Transmission on Emissions and Reliability
September 17, 2024
One of the dramatic changes to the energy landscape over the last decade has been the substantial decline in the […]
The Impact of Financing Structures on the Cost of CO2 Transport
September 4, 2024
According to decarbonization pathways, carbon capture and storage (CCS) forms a core part of the mitigation technology portfolio for energy-intensive […]
Optimizing Mineral Extraction and Processing for the Energy Transition
July 25, 2024
Efficient extraction and processing of ores into metals are fundamental to several clean energy transition technologies. Metals such as copper, […]
Shedding Light on Green Claims
July 10, 2024
With the intensifying global focus on fighting climate change, more consumers are turning to green energy, often verified through energy […]
Can Federal Grid Reforms Solve the Interconnection Problem?
July 5, 2024
Although energy production from wind and solar has grown rapidly in the United States, its integration into the national electric […]
EU and US Approaches to Address Energy Poverty: Classifying and Evaluating Design Strategies
June 25, 2024
As climate change continues to worsen and cause more extreme temperature fluctuations and weather events, access to sufficient energy services […]
Crossed Wires: A Salata Institute – Roosevelt Project Study
June 11, 2024
A new Salata Institute-Roosevelt Project study has been released that examines the regulatory, political, and social factors that shape long-distance […]
The Next Front in the War Against Climate Change
May 24, 2024
Clean-energy investment in America is off the charts—but it still isn’t translating into enough electricity that people can actually use. […]
Bridging the Divide: Assessing the Viability of International Cooperation on Border Carbon Adjustments
April 24, 2024
Trade-Climate Cooperation at the Crossroads Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a broad range of multilateral, plurilateral and bilateral […]
MIT Sloan’s Climate Catalysts Thrive on Collaboration
April 22, 2024
“MIT is never better than when we come together to solve big problems,” said MIT President Sally Kornbluth in a […]
Understanding the
Future of Critical Raw Materials
for the Energy Transition
April 2, 2024
The energy transition stands as a cornerstone in fighting climate change and reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. This challenge requires […]
A Supply Curve for
Forest-Based CO2 Removal
March 20, 2024
Global CO2 emissions are continuing to rise. That may eventually change, but even with a substantial decline in emissions, the […]
Designing Distribution Network Tariffs Under Increased Residential End-user Electrification
February 12, 2024
In almost all US states, electric utilities have been recovering distribution costs, along with electricity supply costs, from residential and […]
The Expansion of Incentive (Performance Based) Regulation of Electricity Distribution and Transmission
February 6, 2024
Incentive regulation mechanisms have been applied for many years to the regulation of electric utilities in countries other than the […]