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Feb 28 4 tweets 3 min read
As examples of what you can do with the interactive data portal released today repeatproject.org...

1. Here's a comparison of how many jobs are created under Build Back Better Act vs the Infrastructure Bill (IIJA) repeatproject.org/policies?compa… Image
You can freely toggle which policy or benchmark scenarios to compare. You can automatically see differences in absolute units or percentage terms. And you can filter on a variety of category and subcategory types to access (and share with 'sticky' URL) the data you want.
You can also download all data as .csv and toggle between comparison mode and time series mode for each policy. For example, here's GHG emissions for BBBA vs IIJA (repeatproject.org/policies?compa…) and a Net-Zero Pathway benchmark, and in time series mode (repeatproject.org/policies?compa…). ImageImage
There's LOTS of useful data here, all transparently available for download and reuse. (Just realized I forgot to add the Creative Commons mark, but all data is free of use).

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Feb 28
NEW TODAY: REPEATProject.org report offers most comprehensive analysis yet of impacts of congressional budget & infrastructure bills, detailing impacts on CO2, investment, household energy costs, energy related jobs, public health, and more: repeatproject.org/docs/REPEAT_Su… ImageImageImageImage
We model in detail impacts of the #BuildBackBetter Act (BBBA) now stalled in the Senate.
We also model the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (IIJA), now law, which we find would leave annual greenhouse gas emissions 1.3 billion tons short of the nation’s 2030 climate goals. Image
Indeed, we conclude that the bipartisan infrastructure law (IIJA) delivers just 9% of the emissions reductions (relative to a Frozen Policies benchmark) needed to reach 2030 US climate goals, leaving a yawning gap unlikely to be bridged by executive action and state policy alone. Image
Read 13 tweets
Feb 27
Germany is weighing whether to extend the life-span of its remaining nuclear power plants as a way to secure the country's energy supply in the face of uncertainty over Russian gas supplies, the country's economy minister said today. Fast moving situation.
reuters.com/world/europe/g…
A short thread with some numbers on this, assembled with some help from friends on Twitter and off, which is one of several levers that the West can and should use to free Europe of Russian gas dependence and it's geopolitical consequences...
The remaining 3 German nuclear plants – Emsland, Isar & Nelkarwestheim – have combined capacity of 4055 GW or 32 TWh/yr @ 90% capacity factor. Assuming displaces modern combined cycle gas plant, at 7.43 cf/kwh, Germany can avoid .237 Tcf of gas consumption /yr by delaying closure
Read 7 tweets
Feb 26
@east_winds Yeah it seems to be the consensus amongst geopolitics of energy folks that oil is the bigger "prize" for Russia, and I consider that valid. Still, here's why I think natural gas matters so much...
@east_winds 1. Most of Russia's oil goes to China & Asia. Most of Russia goes to Europe. Tankers are easy to reroute. Oil pipelines are fixed. So cutting gas exports to Europe could leave Russia with oversupply, and cratering gas prices.
@east_winds 2. For same reason, Europe is far more dependent on Russian gas than oil, since it's harder to find alternative supply. This gives Putin way more geopolitical leverage than from oil. Freeing EU from that leverage is key to enable more robust Western sanctions incl on Russian oil.
Read 7 tweets
Feb 26
EU gas experts: how long into the spring before EU can afford to cut off all Russian imports of gas? I imagine in winter on short notice that is problematic, but as weather warms, can EU go entirely without Russian imports?

@JasonBordoff @AmyJaffeenergy @DxGordon
As Europe enters Spring, and with surge of US LNG and bunkering for next winter, plus a conservation push similar to Japan after Fukushima, could Europe prepare for next winter without Russia?
Should America launch a natural gas conservation effort in solidarity, to free up exports? A "Lend-Lease Act moment" for the 21st century?
Read 5 tweets
Jan 28
New @NatureEnergyJnl paper w/@HarrisonGFell @mmildenberger & @gilbeaq critically reviews @BenjaminSovaco1 et al's claims there's scant empirical evidence nuclear power is associated w/lower CO2. Turns out: there's plenty evidence if you know how to look. rdcu.be/cFUSJ
The Sovacool et al. paper, which made the rounds in October 2020, used cross-sectional regression analysis to test associations between nuclear & renewable deployment across different countries and national carbon dioxide pollution levels. See nature.com/articles/s4156…
Sovacool et al. claimed to "find that larger-scale national nuclear attachments do not tend to associate with significantly lower [CO2] while renewables do." AKA, there's no clear empirical link betwen ⬆️ nuclear & ⬇️ CO2 calling into question nuclear's role in climate mitigation
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Dec 20, 2021
"The stakes here are incredibly high. Passing #BuildBackBetter would lower energy costs and secure both the US's climate goals and its global competitiveness in some of the most important industries of the 21st century. Failure would cost Americans dearly."

My statement ⤵️
Enacting the clean energy investments in the Build Back Better Act would cut U.S greenhouse gas emissions by a cumulative 5 billion tons (CO2-equivalent) by 2030 and put the US within easy reach of President Biden's commitment to cut emissions to half of peak levels by 2030.
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