This policy brief outlines high-level issues related to the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). It broadly introduces some key challenges that must be addressed for wide-scale deployment of CCS.
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Source: World Resources Institute
Date: October 2007
This handbook is designed to be a user-friendly guide rather than a technical compendium or comprehensive collection of relevant legislation. The focus is on national legislation, but the report encompasses national constitutional provisions, regulations and state and local laws.
Source: United Nations
Date: January 2007
This report studies six large-scale renewable electricity generation projects in the United States and Europe to evaluate how policy affects project economics, as well as the cost and availability of financing.
Source: Climate Policy Initiative
Date: October 2011
This presentation addresses the legal, policy, environmental and energy issues associated with fuel switching in the U.S. state of Michigan. It also makes recommendations for encouraging fuel switching and provides technical resources on the subject.
Source: Michigan Public Service Commission
Date: November 2010
This white paper examines fuel-switching opportunities in the U.S.
Source: United States Department of Energy
Date: August 2006
The Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) is a multi-regional, multi-period, Geographic Information System (GIS) and linear programming model of capacity expansion in the electric sector of the United States.
Source: United States National Renewable Energy Laboratory
This information on accelerating the U.S. deployment of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) was presented at the Climate Policy and West Coast Transportation Conference at Stanford University in September 2010. It presents the U.S.
Source: Natural Resources Defense Council
Date: September 2010
This report focuses on the subset of Smart Grid development jobs represented by the broad array of supplier firms involved, including those that have traditionally provided electric equipment and those that provide information technology (IT), core communications, smart hardware, energy services
Source: Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness
Date: April 2011
This report discusses current best practices in the deployment of Smart Grid technologies and provides instruction on the do's and don'ts with regard to Smart Grid vision and business case, implementation, and operations and change management.
Source: McKinsey
Date: June 2010
This report provides a detailed analysis of feed-in tariff (FIT) policy design and implementation, and it identifies a set of best practices that have been effective at quickly stimulating the deployment of large amounts of renewable energy generation.
Source: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States Department of State, E3 Analytics
Date: July 2010