How many EVs does each state need on the road in 2030? How much land will solar or wind need? How large will the energy workforce be? @Princeton Net-Zero America study FINAL REPORT is out & our state-level data viewer can answer these and other questions netzeroamerica.princeton.edu
Also NEW in the Net-Zero America final report: 1. A summay report excerpting key findings from the 348 slide full report.
2. Dozens of new sensitivity cases to explore the impact of key uncertainties (see Annex B for detailed info).
3. Detailed mapping or "downscaling" of wind, solar & transmission build-out for more pathways (plus an updated city-to-city transmission planning optimization method).
4. More extensive analysis of the air pollution and public health impacts and benefits of a net-zero energy transition (led by @ErinNMayfield, now a prof. at @dartmouth)
5. A new discussion on trade-offs and key challenges in the pathways to net-zero (which became a frequent focus of our public seminars/briefings on the report since the interim report was released in December 2020).
6. Highlighting four key risks or "failure modes" that could derail the net-zero transition, which emerge from our study. These failure modes and thoughts on how to overcome them are the subject of a NEW @Joule_CP commentary by the NZA authors out now: authors.elsevier.com/a/1e1Pa925JEG8…
7. Final and updated annexes with details on methodologies developed and used in the Net-Zero America study, which you can find at netzeroamerica.princeton.edu/the-report
8. And of course, some error correction/typo fixes etc. Most notable error: a bug in our manufacturing employment estimates which increased estimated solar & wind manufacturing employment in the Interim Report. Does not affect topline job numbers but does change mfg results.
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Vance last night: "We should be making more solar panels here in the United States of America."
Me last night yelling at the TV: THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT AMERICA IS DOING UNDER THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION (AND EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTED AGAINST THE LAW THAT MADE IT HAPPEN)!!
And it's not just solar panel manufacturing. After decades of politicians like Vance making empty promises to bring manufacturing back to America, WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING IT! Thanks to clean energy & industrial policy laws passed under Biden & Harris.
Just last week, Ohio-based solar PV manufacturer @FirstSolar inaugurated a new $1.1 billion manufacturing facility in Alabama that adds 3.5 gigawatts of fully vertically integrated solar manufacturing capacity in the US. That's ~10% of the US market for solar. madeinalabama.com/2024/09/first-…
Two years ago today, President Biden signed into the law the landmark Inflation Reducation Act, supercharging the clean energy transition.
Today, REPEAT Project releases 'Climate Progress 2024,' our annual update and analysis of US progress on the path to net-zero emissions.
In this 2024 update, we've thoroughly refreshed all assumptions, calibrated near-term constraints against real-world trends & announced investments, and accounted for several federal regulations (EPA emissions rules & DOE efficiency standards) finalized by in the last year.
In todays' Summary Report (available at ), we provide high level results from REPEAT Project’s 2024 Annual U.S. Emissions Pathways Update.
A final report with further detailed findings and an updated data portal with quantitative results will be published soon at .repeatproject.org/reports repeatproject.org
For my entire life, I've heard politicians talk about bringing manufacturing jobs back to America.
It is FINALLY happening.
"We're not going back!" has been @KamalaHarris's rallying cry. But those jobs & industries of the future now hang in the balance this #election.
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The Biden-Harris Admin & 117th Congress enacted a trio of laws (IIJA, IRA, CHIPS) that made major public investments to grow & strengthen several key industries of the future: semiconductors, EVs, batteries, solar & wind, hydrogen, clean steel. jackconness.com/ira-chips-inve…
Those new laws and other Biden-Harris Administration actions on trade & tariffs have amplified and directed a reshoring megatrend and driven a massive surge in private sector investments in US manufacturing, creating tens of thousands of good jobs in communities across America.
A federal judge temporarily halted completion of a 102-mile high voltage transmission line that would connect dozens of renewable energy projects to the grid, at the behest of three environmental groups. 🤦♂️ reuters.com/sustainability…
At issue: Driftless Area Land Conservancy, National Wildlife Refuge Association & Wisconsin Wildlife Federation sued to block a land swap approved by US Dept of Interior that would add 35 new acres of land to a wildlife refuge in exchange for 20 acres crossed by the line Come on!
I wonder where @audubonsociety @nature_org & @NWF are at on this project. They've done a lot to help keep a more balanced perspective on broad benefits of transmission to connect clean electricity resources and local environmental impacts.
At long last, proposed #hydrogen tax credit rules are out. Industry reactions are in. While opponents of climate-friendly rules continue to complain, stakeholders from across the industry endorsed the proposal & are prepared to unleash investment in a truly clean H2 sector. A🧵⤵️
The Biden admin resisted a torrent of intense lobbying from big industrial players like the utilities NextEra & Constellation, oil majors like BP & Exxon, fuel-cell maker Plug Power, & their trade-group proxies, which spent millions on ads & lobbying to weaken the hydrogen rules.
If you’ve read about electric vehicles in the news lately, you know the vibes are all bad. The media has fixated on the idea that consumer demand for EVs is “slowing." But the data shows that just not true, as I explain in a new @Heatmap column heatmap.news/electric-vehic…
If we take a look at actual sales data (as I did here ), there’s NO sign the growth in EVs is flagging. In fact, sales of battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in the third quarter exhibited the strongest year-on-year growth since the Q4 2021! anl.gov/esia/reference…
Putting aside plug-in hybrids, which have shorter electric range and retain a gasoline engine, sales of purely electric vehicles have been steadily increasing at ~60% annual growth rate for each of the last six quarters. That’s fast enough to double EV sales every 14 months.