New Publications in the OurEnergyLibrary
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Center for International Environmental Law
April 16, 2020
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American Wind Energy Association
April 14, 2020
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Energy Leaders Webinar Series
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View past recordings and read summaries from the first two webinars of our new OurEnergyPolicy
Energy Leaders Webinar Series
! Thank you to all who have attended, and keep an eye out for a separate invitation this week to attend next week's webinar.
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Ernest Moniz
Energy Futures Initiative
Recording available, summary forthcoming.
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Dan Kammen
UC Berkley
Recording and summary available.
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By
Joel Levin
Executive Director, Plug In America
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"
Thank you so much. Joel, for your great post, which really raised my spirits on this day of quarantine. Your post is
so much
closer to what we really need to cope with the worst case climate risks than anything I have seen in the Presidential debates from either party.
Since about 80 percent of US GHG come from just two sectors, electricity generation and transportation, it would cost
so much
less money to get us to environmental
and
international security by doing the best we can in those two sectors.
Plug-ins are certainly a major part of that...
."
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Paul Werbos
, Program Director for Energy, Power and Adaptive Systems, National Science Foundation, retired
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We support policies that reduce carbon emissions overall—whether it be through cap and trade, carbon tax, etc
. It is interesting that some states are still funding research on hydrogen fueling technologies, which could have a place in the medium-heavy duty sector, but
for the light-duty sector the plug-in EV has clearly won
. As the details and politics are worked out for larger carbon reduction policies, we support each state introducing a low carbon fuel standard policy. This sends a signal to the market that electricity powering vehicles is the way to go, and provides investment back into clean transportation technologies."
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Joel Levin
, Executive Director, Plug In America
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Electric vehicles are of marginal value and should not be encouraged. The
preferred option when consider the entire system is the plug-in hybrid vehicle
that has fundamentally different characteristics than the all electric vehicle–although most people put them in the same group."
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Charles W. Forsberg
, Executive Director, MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Project, MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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Podcast Spotlight
In
this podcast
from the
MIT Energy Initiative
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Brian Anderson PhD ’05, the director of the U.S Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory, shares what the lab is doing in carbon capture, materials, hydrogen, and more.
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Update from Congress
- Thurs, April 23 - A group of bipartisan senators, including Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Charles Grassley (R-IA), asked the Department of Treasury to extend safe harbor deadlines to ensure renewable energy developers are able to secure tax credits to finance their projects. Read more from Utility Dive.
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- When: Tues, April 28, 2-3 p.m. Eastern Time
- When: Thurs, April 30, 10-11 a.m. Eastern Time
- When: Thurs, April 30, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Eastern Time
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to facilitate substantive, responsible dialogue on energy policy issues and provide this dialogue as a resource for the public, policymakers, and the media.
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