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Air quality officials have significant new opportunities to ensure that air pollution issues are considered in the course of electricity system planning as a result of FERC Order 1000, Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation by Transmission Owning and Operating Public… View Summary +
Coal continues to be the dominant fuel choice for power generation around the world. How that coal is burned can influence the rate and quantity of emissions produced by its combustion. For decades, many countries have established standards and specifications… View Summary +
In recent years, more and more regulators view energy efficiency as a viable air quality improvement strategy. While no regulator should expect to solve all air quality challenges through one strategy alone, efficiency has distinct advantages over pollution control methods. View Summary +
Steigende Anteile fluktuierender erneuerbarer Erzeugung stellen neue Herausforderungen an die kosteneffiziente Gewährleistung der Systemsicherheit und erhöhen den Bedarf an Flexibilität. Für den direkten Beitrag zur Versorgungssicherheit müssen diese „Flexibilitätsressourcen“ dem System in Echtzeit zur Verfügung stehen. Das gilt auch für… View Summary +
Regulators, advocates, and energy industry companies have long understood that energy efficiency policies and programs can reduce air pollution emissions associated with fuel combustion. This reduction in emissions can lead to lower environmental compliance costs and, ultimately, lower public health… View Summary +
Widespread electrification of the transportation sector holds the promise of greater vehicle efficiency and lower emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other air pollutants. Many governments around the world have identified electric vehicles (EVs) as a cornerstone of transportation sector… View Summary +
Discussions in Germany over the future of feed-in-tariffs (FiTs) for renewables are in full force. One of the market support designs under considerable debate is the so-called “Market Premium” FiT, which Germany put in place at the beginning of 2012… View Summary +
Benchmarking, tracking building-level energy use over time, is a useful way to manage building costs and to enable energy efficient improvements. However, because large commercial buildings typically have multiple tenants whose energy usage is metered separately, tracking overall building energy… View Summary +
The European Commission launched a Consultative Communication on “The future of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Europe”, with the aim of initiating a debate on the options available to ensure its timely development. In these comments, RAP recommends creating… View Summary +
Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) can help deliver the EU 2050 policy vision of cities free of conventionally fuelled vehicles and a power sector absent of carbon, as they have no tailpipe emissions and create far less noise compared with conventional… View Summary +
Integrated resource planning (IRP) has been widely used in the US for over twenty years. Although some state IRP rules have remained unchanged since they were first implemented, other states have amended, repealed, and in some cases reinstated their IRP… View Summary +
This report provides an overview of the most promising technologies and policies available to Vermont as it crafts a plan for achieving the goals contained in Act 170 of 2012: 90 percent of the energy consumed across all sectors of… View Summary +
A dynamic transfer is a coordinated transfer of firm energy between balancing area authorities. This report provides regulators and policymakers with an examination of historical and emerging uses of dynamic transfers. It also describes the distinct role that dynamic transfers… View Summary +
The European Commission (EC) has announced that 2013 is the “Year of Air” and a comprehensive policy package will be proposed by year end. As part of a decadal review of air quality standards, the EC’s 2013 focus offers significant… View Summary +
The energy efficiency of the buildings in which we live and work is well below economically optimal levels. Building owners typically have both much less informa¬tion and much less focus on the energy implications of their investment decisions than do… View Summary +