{"query_echo":{"q":"","filters":{"analysis_type":["techno-economic modeling"]},"warnings":[]},"total":{"value":20,"relation":"eq"},"page":1,"page_size":20,"self":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/api/v1/search?analysis_type=techno-economic+modeling","stability":"beta","ai_marking":{"digital_source_type":{"uri":"http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/digitalsourcetype/trainedAlgorithmicMedia","name":"Created using Generative AI"},"notice":"Summary and key insights are generated using artificial intelligence."},"results":[{"id":"rmi-000700","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/rmi-000700","title":"Charting a Circular Battery Future in India","publisher":{"name":"RMI","organization":"rmi"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2025-11-05","source_url":"https://rmi.org/resources/charting-a-circular-battery-future-in-india/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report identifies a ₹75,500 crore (US$9 billion) market opportunity in India's battery circularity, projecting significant potential for reuse (220 GWh by 2050) and repurposing (600 GWh by 2050). It argues that domestic recycling could meet over 40 percent of India's lithium, nickel, and cobalt needs by 2050, while creating 106,000 green jobs and avoiding 2.9 million tons of CO2 equivalent. Success depends on five enablers: policy reform, digital traceability, financing interventions, technology development, and workforce training.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000700#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"India's battery circularity represents a market opportunity valued at ₹75,500 crore (US$9 billion), with battery demand projected to grow more than 40-fold by 2050.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000700#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The potential for battery reuse is estimated at 220 GWh between 2025 and 2050, while annual repurposing potential could reach approximately 600 GWh by 2050, creating a market opportunity of ₹58,738 crore (~US$7 billion).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000700#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Battery recycling in India is projected to create over 106,000 direct green jobs and avoid 2.9 million tons of CO2 equivalent; by 2050, it could provide more than 40 percent of the country's requirements for cobalt, nickel, and lithium.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"rmi-000700#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["electric vehicle","battery recycling","critical minerals","nickel","green job","Net-zero emissions","energy security"],"geography_discussed":[],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["techno-economic modeling","policy analysis"]},{"id":"catf-000587","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/catf-000587","title":"Gaps, Challenges, and Pathways Forward for Superhot Rock Geothermal Synthesis Report","publisher":{"name":"Clean Air Task Force","organization":"clean-air-task-force"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2025-02","source_url":"https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10100337/bridging-gaps-summary.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report argues that superhot rock (SHR) geothermal energy, defined as leveraging rocks at 374°C or above, has the potential to provide scalable, renewable baseload power at costs competitive with fossil fuels. While much of the necessary technology exists due to progress in unconventional oil and gas and next-generation geothermal, significant gaps remain in materials science, drilling efficiency, and reservoir stimulation. The most critical need identified is the establishment of laboratory and field facilities to test equipment under actual SHR conditions. Key technical hurdles include improving rates of penetration in hard basement rock, developing casing and cement that can withstand extreme thermal swings and corrosion, and creating reliable fracture networks in the brittle-ductile transition zone (BDTZ). Power production is the most mature segment, with most components at TRL 8-9, though integrated system prototypes and cost-effective turbine designs are still needed.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"catf-000587#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Superhot rock (SHR) energy, utilizing temperatures of 374°C or above, could potentially provide baseload power at a scale and cost equivalent to fossil fuels, with modeling suggesting costs of $20-35 per megawatt hour (MWh).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"catf-000587#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The primary obstacle to advancing SHR technology is a lack of access to testing environments, specifically laboratories and field sites capable of simulating or providing actual SHR conditions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"catf-000587#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Drilling for SHR requires reaching depths often exceeding 10 km in hard crystalline bedrock; while current technologies can penetrate this rock, they are too slow to be economical, necessitating improvements in rates of penetration and ultra-high-temperature downhole tools.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"catf-000587#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Well construction is the most frequent point of failure in SHR projects due to extreme temperature gradients, high pressures, and corrosive environments that degrade casing materials and cements.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"catf-000587#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Heat extraction is the least mature technical area, requiring significant R&D to create and maintain permeability in the brittle-ductile transition zone (BDTZ) and to develop stimulation equipment (diverters, proppants, packers) that can operate above 350°C.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"catf-000587#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Power production is relatively mature, with most individual components at TRL 8-9, but fully integrated SHR power plants are not yet commercially available, and turbine designs must be specialized for specific geofluid characteristics.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"catf-000587#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Siting and characterization are hampered by a lack of field-validated datasets, which limits the ability to correlate geophysical signals with actual subsurface conditions and hinders the application of machine learning.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"catf-000587#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["energy transition"],"geography_discussed":["Iceland","Japan","Italy","Mexico","New Zealand","United States","Utah","Oregon","California"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["gap analysis","technology readiness level assessment","techno-economic modeling"]},{"id":"cliinstca-000402","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/cliinstca-000402","title":"Comment les politiques d’aujourd’hui stimuleront ou retarderont la transition des bâtiments vers un chauffage propre et fiable","publisher":{"name":"Canadian Climate Institute","organization":"canadian-climate-institute"},"document_type":"report","language":"fr","date_published":"2024-06","source_url":"https://institutclimatique.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Echange-de-Chaleur-Rapport-Institut-climatique-Canada.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report argues that achieving cost-optimal carbon neutrality in Canada's building sector requires a massive shift toward electrification, primarily through heat pumps, and a significant reduction in gas network reliance. It warns that current regulatory inertia and the continued expansion of gas infrastructure create risks of 'stranded assets' and higher costs for taxpayers. The authors recommend that provincial governments provide clear long-term strategic guidance, mandate net-zero targets, and empower regulators to prioritize electrification over gas expansion to protect long-term affordability and reliability.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliinstca-000402#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"To achieve carbon neutrality in a cost-optimal way, electricity must become the dominant energy source for heating buildings across all Canadian provinces. Nationally, the share of electricity in space heating demand is projected to rise from 21% today to between 55% and 60% by 2040, and between 78% and 91% by 2050.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliinstca-000402#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Continued expansion of the gas network is incompatible with a cost-effective transition to carbon neutrality. Provinces that continue to grow their gas distribution networks risk increasing the cost of meeting climate goals or jeopardizing those goals entirely, as these assets may become stranded before they are fully paid off (typically over 40 to 50 years).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliinstca-000402#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Low-carbon gases, such as hydrogen and biomethane, are too scarce and expensive to serve as primary replacements for heating buildings at scale. They are more optimally used in hard-to-abate sectors like heavy industry. Even in low-cost scenarios, they would only replace a small fraction of current gas demand in buildings by 2050.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliinstca-000402#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Hybrid heating systems (combining electric heat pumps with gas backup) may serve as a transition tool or a long-term solution in specific cold-climate contexts to manage winter peak electricity demand, but they do not justify further gas network expansion. In a cost-optimal path, residential gas consumption in Alberta—the province with the highest hybrid adoption—would still drop by 83% by 2050.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliinstca-000402#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Canadian electricity grid requires significant investment to support widespread electrification. National electricity capacity development is projected to be 2.6 to 2.9 times higher than current levels to reach carbon neutrality. Managing winter peak demand is identified as the central challenge for electricity utilities to maintain affordability and reliability.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliinstca-000402#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Current public utility regulation in Canada is ill-suited for the energy transition because it is based on decades-old assumptions of slow, steady demand growth. Gas utilities have a direct economic incentive to expand infrastructure because they earn returns on capital investments rather than on the volume of fuel sold.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cliinstca-000402#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Building sector emissions in Canada increased by 8.8% between 2005 and 2022, making it one of only two sectors where emissions are rising. 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It focuses exclusively on process emissions, excluding indirect emissions from the electrical grid and stationary combustion. The study employs a technology-agnostic cost model to estimate the cost of CO2 avoided, incorporating capture, compression, transport (via trucking or pipeline), and injection costs. Key sectors analyzed include cement, bioethanol, refining, hydrogen, and ammonia production, with a particular emphasis on the proximity of these facilities to sedimentary basins and existing CO2 pipelines to determine eligibility for the federal 45Q tax credit.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"eesi-000515#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The study identifies a significant opportunity for carbon capture from industrial process emissions in the contiguous U.S., focusing on 656 facilities emitting 242 MtCO2 and 174 ethanol plants emitting 41 MtCO2/yr.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"eesi-000515#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The analysis excludes indirect emissions from the electrical grid and stationary combustion to focus on chemical process emissions, which are the emissions facilities have immediate control over and are relevant for the federal 45Q tax credit.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"eesi-000515#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Different industrial sectors exhibit varying CO2 purities and emission sources: bioethanol produces high-purity CO2 (99+%) from fermenters, cement emissions (14-33% CO2) come primarily from the exhaust stack, and hydrogen and ammonia production often rely on hydrogen separation units (HSU) with an assumed CO2 concentration of 45%.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"eesi-000515#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The cost of CO2 avoided is calculated using a multi-regression model that considers capture rate, CO2 concentration, and volumetric flow rate, and then adds the costs of compression, transport, and injection while subtracting applicable tax credits.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"eesi-000515#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Proximity to CO2 sinks is a critical factor for viability; for example, in the Louisiana-Mississippi pipeline area, 42 of 59 facilities within 0-20 miles are eligible for the 45Q tax credit, representing 23.72 MtCO2/yr.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"eesi-000515#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The study assumes a standard cost of $11/tCO2 for the injection of CO2 into either dedicated geologic sequestration or enhanced oil recovery (EOR).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"eesi-000515#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["carbon capture and storage","industrial emission","oil refining"],"geography_discussed":["Louisiana","Mississippi","Texas","New Mexico","Decatur","Illinois"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["cost analysis","techno-economic modeling","geographic mapping"]}]}