"Across all scenarios in the study, utility-scale diurnal energy storage deployment grows significantly through 2050, totaling over 125 gigawatts of installed capacity in the modest cost and performance assumptions — a more than five-fold increase from today’s total. Depending on cost and other variables, deployment could total as much as 680 gigawatts by 2050."
With New Caucus, Conservatives Can Win on Climate
Our side can win by putting conservation back into conservatism, calling out ineffective Democratic climate plans, and championing real climate solutions that will benefit all Americans. That’s the conservative approach to climate change.
Atlantic Council Panel: Expect an “Energy Transition, Not an Energy Switch” to Net-Zero
Fossil fuel companies continue to play an essential role in our energy makeup and will play a central role in decarbonization moving forward. A market-based approach that allows for a diverse energy makeup is the correct way to move toward a net-zero future.
Four Flaws With the EU’s New Climate Plans
Rather than increasing taxes and regulations, the EU should look to free markets to address climate change.
Biden to announce target for 50% electric vehicle sales as he unveils stricter emissions rules
"President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Thursday setting a target for half of all new vehicles sold in the United States to be electric or carbon-free by 2030 as part of a push to reduce the use of gasoline in transportation, the biggest driver of greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change."
On Addressing Climate Risk and Uncertainty
Jonathan Adler has an insightful piece in The Bulwark arguing that conservatives need to engage in the climate policy debate. Adler, a professor at Case Western Reserve University, correctly cuts to the chase of what the mainstream body of climate literature says: anthropogenic warming is unequivocally real and poses a risk to our planet. Just...
Markets Can Provide More Sustainable Conservation
PERC CEO Brian Yablonski joins the Land Ethic podcast to discuss how markets can provide more sustainable conservation. “PERC CEO Brian Yablonski joins Dylan Bagnasco of the Land Ethic podcast to discuss free market environmentalism. Brian notes that a market-based approach to conservation will be more sustainable and insulated from fickle political winds.” Listen to...
Nucor Launches Carbon Neutral Steel Product
David Worford reports in Energy + Environment Leader that steel manufacturer Nucore has launched a carbon-neutral steel product. “Nucor says the availability of Econiq will be limited at first but that it will be available across all of its steelmaking product lines. Some of the industries the green steel product will be available to include...
Concrete industry says carbon capture a key to hitting emissions targets
"The plan includes finding and substituting more alternatives to clinker, a binder of cement, more use of alternative fuels, new chemistry and manufacturing processes, carbon capture and storage, increased efficiency in concrete use and pushing governments to approve new forms of concrete and buy them."
The Virginia Election Just Scrambled COP26 for the Better
Youngkin’s success is a blueprint for Republicans nationally, which bodes well for durable solutions on a host of fronts, including climate policy.
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