Category Archives: Reports

Never mind FERC, we are building the grid of the future

Posted on November 14, 2017 by kbmasis

“As feds focus on baseload, grid modernization is sweeping the country” according to Herman Trabish’s feature story in today’s Utility Dive. “Fifty States of Grid Modernization,” a 2017 policy update from the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center reports on a … Continue reading →

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Reliability of the grid

Posted on July 25, 2017 by kbmasis

The National Academies Press  just published “Enhancing the resilience of the nation’s electricity system.” Electric power transmission and distribution reliability are critical to our “safety, productivity, comfort, and convenience.”  The electric power system has vulnerabilities that we would do well to … Continue reading →

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Clean, dynamic, and distributed

Posted on June 28, 2017 by kbmasis

The headline of a June 26, 2017 article in Bloomberg New Energy Finance  “Energy to 2040: Faster shift to clean, dynamic, distributed.” Seth Henbest’s analysis of the BNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2017 summarizes the “changing economics of energy generation” with these … Continue reading →

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Top economists on carbon price and decarbonization

Posted on June 19, 2017 by kbmasis

An article from June 12 in Inside Climate News, says that “top economists,” led by Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern, report that the current average low price on carbon (less than $10 a ton) worldwide, will not achieve the transition to low … Continue reading →

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“From Risk to Return”

Posted on December 7, 2016 by kbmasis

This report is about the benefits of  Investing in a Clean Energy Economy. “Economic risks of unmitigated climate change to American businesses and long-term investors are large and unacceptable.”  This was the finding of the Risky Business Project, in their  initial … Continue reading →

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“The Power of Change”

Posted on September 8, 2016 by kbmasis

This 300 page book published September, 2016, by the National Academies Press (chartered by Congress) is the most up to date and credible analysis of the current status of technologies and policies supporting clean electric power technology. It can be downloaded for … Continue reading →

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Removing tax preferences for U.S. oil and gas producers: discussion paper

Posted on August 8, 2016 by kbmasis

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) just published a paper by Gilbert Metcalfe of Tufts, on the implications for the U.S. in the case of the removal of three “tax preferences” for the oil and gas industries, to the tune of $4 … Continue reading →

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“Bringing values and deliberation to science communication”

Posted on August 2, 2016 by kbmasis

Public participation is both invaluable and problematic in climate deliberations. This was discussed by Thomas Dietz in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences at a symposium in 2012 on “Bringing Science to Science Deliberation.” “Decisions always involve both facts and … Continue reading →

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“314 species on the brink”

Posted on July 9, 2016 by kbmasis

                                                           According to Audubon’s Birds and Climate Change Report  of 2014, “shrinking and … Continue reading →

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Designing a policy to price carbon: the devil’s in the details

Posted on July 9, 2016 by kbmasis

This paper posted July 8, 2016, by the Brookings Institute covers “11 essential questions for designing a policy to price carbon,” or in other words, the “details,” at brookings.edu. The author, Adele Morris, is a senior fellow and policy director for Climate … Continue reading →

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