EI’s Chris Busch says China’s new carbon market could help reduce the friction a border adjustment might cause by providing a natural policy lever for China to clean up its industrial sectors and increase harmonization between China and the E.U. on climate.

EI’s Jeff Rissman says the process being used by the Swedish company HYBRIT is not the only way to make zero-carbon steel, and there is promising research being done on other approaches.

EI’s Dan Esposito calls for using all-source procurement, a competitive process in which utilities specify certain demand and reliability benchmarks over a given time period and the market dictates what technology and costs are needed to meet them, creating the opportunity for cleaner and cheaper resources to win out in the end.

EI’s Sara Baldwin explains why the American Jobs Plan’s proposed $213 billion investment to build and retrofit 2 million affordable and sustainable places to live, including building 1 million new electrified homes, would put Americans to work and curb rising utility bills for consumers, while also making homes more comfortable and reducing harmful pollution.

EI’s Eric Gimon explains how the American Jobs Plan’s investments in inter-regional electric transmission would position the U.S. for success in the 21st century, create hundreds of thousands of jobs for the folks that build it, while providing cheaper, cleaner electricity, and bolstering electricity system reliability.

EI’s Chris Busch explains new research finding the total cost of ownership of used electric vehicles is less expensive than the total cost of ownership of a similar used gas car and how California can leverage this surprising affordability to achieve multiple economic, public health, climate, and equity goals.

EI analysis finds all but one of Colorado’s seven coal power plants are less cost effective than new local wind and solar power, meaning utility customers in Colorado are overpaying.

EI’s Dan Esposito and Mike O’Boyle explain why an 80 percent by 2030 clean electricity standard would stimulate $1.5 trillion in new investment broadly distributed across every region of the United States, while dramatically improving air quality and public health, and without raising electricity rates or compromising reliability.

EI analysis with RMI using the Colorado Energy Policy Simulator shows estimated actual greenhouse gas reductions in Colorado will only total 3.4 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

EI research finds applying incentives to used electric vehicles, as some of California’s programs do, can also allow families receiving the high end of the state’s incentives to save 30 to 40 percent on ownership costs compared to the purchase of a comparable used gas car for certain model years.

EI’s Mike O’Boyle says the job of a utility regulator is to ensure that utilities do what they say and to hold them accountable to do things that you believe are in the public interest.

In the second in a three-part series, EI’s Dan Esposito and Eric Gimon explain how ERCOT market design and operation failed to prepare for the Texas Big Freeze and exacerbated the crisis when it hit.

In the first in a three-part series, EI’s Dan Esposito and Eric Gimon explain why natural gas failures, poor planning, and lack of demand management were primary causes of the Texas Big Freeze and why durable solutions must look beyond fossil fuels.

EI consultant Ron Lehr says utilities may favor capital investments with guaranteed returns from assets they can own, but contracts for renewables without that financial incentive to the utility may be better for their customers.

EI’s Robbie Orvis says keeping existing nuclear facilities online makes sense because it would make it easier and cheaper to decarbonize the economy by 2050.

EI analysis with RMI shows that under current laws and regulations, Colorado’s overall emissions will fall only 3.4 percent by 2030 and just 18 percent by 2050.

EI’s Eric Gimon says the damage to the Texas market was “self-inflicted” due to the state’s pricing model, which left regulators with the option to set prices at the extremely high cap for several days.

EI’s Robbie Orvis says the IEA has suggested that there should be no new investment in gas supply because in a net-zero scenario we’ve peaked already, and the fact that is missing from the communique reflects that the international community has not internalized that yet.

EI’s Jeffrey Rissman talks with the host of Decarb Connect, Alex Cameron, about the cross-cutting technologies and industry-specific tools that could define industrial decarbonization, as well as the specific policy levers that are needed.

EI modeling with RMI shows ambitious decarbonization of Colorado’s electricity, transportation, industry, building, and land-use sectors can help limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius while adding more than 20,000 new jobs and $3.5 billion in economic activity per year by 2030.