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Energy Innovation provides insights and updates on Energy Policy, Climate risks, and simple measures you can adopt to fight the crisis. Energy Innovation is non-partisan energy and climate policy think tank providing customized research and policy analysis to decision-makers and thought leaders to support policy design that reduces emissions for a safe climate future.
Energy Innovation Blog
3w ago
By Asa DeHaan, Research Technician at Aspen Global Change Institute and Elise Osenga, Community Science Manager at Aspen Global Change Institute.
A root-dense sample of wet meadow soil. Photo: Asa DeHaan/AGCI
The Unseen World
Beneath the ground, a diverse ecosystem teems with microscopic life. The soil microbiome is a complex life system dominated by bacteria, fungi, viruses, and numerous other microorganisms. This cast of players performs many functions from nitrogen fixation (converting nitrogen from the atmosphere to a form that plants can more readily use for growth) to decomposition to ..read more
Energy Innovation Blog
2M ago
By Emily Jack-Scott, Program Director at Aspen Global Change Institute.
Man turning down thermostat by Getty Images via Canva Pro
Global leaders met in Davos earlier in January to engage in cross-cutting discussions about the world’s most pressing challenges and to debate the merits of various solutions. After another year of climate extremes, it’s little surprise that abnormal weather and climate change are a central focus of the summit.
Structural change through policies and governance is necessary to solve the climate crisis at the speed and scale required. But high level decision-m ..read more
Energy Innovation Blog
2M ago
This post is the fourth in a series titled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100 percent clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. It was written by Savannah M. D’Evelyn, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington’s Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center. Other posts in this series covered Rethinking the Reliability of the Grid and the Future of Operational Grid Reliability, and the EPA’s proposed rules on greenhouse gas emissions.
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Energy Innovation Blog
2M ago
This post is the second in a series titled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100 percent clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. It was written by Michelle Solomon, Senior Policy Analyst in the Electricity Program. A shorter version of this article was published in Utility Dive. Other posts in this series covered Rethinking the Reliability of the Grid
A significant aspect of the Biden administration’s plans to reduce emissions from the power sector is currently under debate – t ..read more
Energy Innovation Blog
4M ago
By Emilio Jack-Scott and Liz Carver
Winter is coming, and people across the country have started turning on their heat to take the edge off the cold. With clear memories of last winter’s high heating costs and this season’s prices predicted to remain at near-record levels, many are resisting as long as possible before finally flipping the switch on their thermostats.
Figure 1: Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS).
The impacts on both psychological and physical health and the economic toll of insufficient heat in winter is staggering an ..read more
Energy Innovation Blog
4M ago
The post 2035 Offshore Wind Data Explorer appeared first on Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology ..read more
Energy Innovation Blog
5M ago
By Emilio Mateo
Llama in front of Ausangate, the highest peak in Peru’s second largest glaciated system, Cordillera Vilcanota.
Mountain glaciers and polar ice caps are experiencing extensive and increasingly fast loss rates as global temperatures warm. The well-documented retreat of mountain glaciers will have severe ecological and societal costs as the shift to a post-glacial landscape represents one of the largest and fastest ongoing ecosystem changes.
A recent report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services states that approximately one mil ..read more
Energy Innovation Blog
6M ago
This post is the second in a series titled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100% clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. It was written by Sara Baldwin, senior director of the Electrification Program at Energy Innovation, with featured contributor Dr. Michael Milligan. A shorter version of this article was published in Utility Dive. Other posts in this series covered Rethinking the Reliability of the Grid
In 2000, the electricity grid earned the distinction as the top engineer ..read more
Energy Innovation Blog
7M ago
Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. The research synopsis below comes from AGCI’s Tanya Petach. A full list of AGCI’s updates is available online.
Aerial view of floating photovoltaic panels on a lake. Image credit: Solar AquaGrid
In arid river basins around the globe, substantial water supply is lost through evaporation. A recent estimate of global reservoir evaporative losses found that annual water volume loss was equivalent to 70 percent of all global municipal water withdrawal ..read more
Energy Innovation Blog
7M ago
This article is the first in a series entitled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100% clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. It was written by Michelle Solomon, a senior policy analyst in the Electricity Program at Energy Innovation.
The beginning of summer brings with it sunshine and vacations for many, but increasingly these warm months are accompanied by extreme heat, a symptom exacerbated by climate change. As a result of widespread heat-waves, people and businesses crank their a ..read more