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The document highlights that just 1% of Türkiye's superhot rock geothermal resource could provide 594 GW of energy capacity, potentially replacing all coal and gas used for electricity production and meeting the country's projected 2050 electricity demand of 609,503 GWh. It argues that this technology would enhance energy security by reducing dependence on coal (58% imported) and natural gas (98% imported), while requiring significantly less land (12 km² per 1 GW) than solar, wind, or biomass.

The document identifies systemic barriers to decarbonizing Canada's electricity grid, including misaligned utility mandates, vested interests, siloed planning, and market access restrictions. It recommends implementing system-wide decarbonization mandates, technology-neutral Clean Electricity Standards, and performance-based regulation to incentivize innovation. The paper also emphasizes the need for improved interprovincial transmission and larger grid-balancing regions to integrate variable renewable energy.

The paper analyzes the diverse structures of Canadian provincial electricity markets, noting that a lack of coordination creates economic inefficiencies and hinders the integration of renewable energy. It identifies six primary challenges to integration, including constitutional jurisdictions and vested interests in price differentials. To address these, the author proposes four strategies: enhancing bilateral projects, adopting a bottom-up Nordic-style collaborative model, utilizing the Canadian Free Trade Agreement, or implementing a federal healthcare-type framework of shared principles.

The document analyzes the diverse structures of Canada's provincial electricity markets, noting that a lack of coordination creates economic inefficiencies and hinders the integration of renewable energy. It identifies key barriers to integration, such as constitutional jurisdictional splits and political inertia, and proposes four strategies—bilateral collaboration, a Nordic-inspired bottom-up approach, a free-trade framework, and a health-care-style principles-based model—to foster a more integrated national grid necessary for deep decarbonization.

The document identifies several systemic obstacles hindering the deployment of clean energy technologies in Canada, including misaligned mandates, market access restrictions, and outdated information. It argues that the highly centralized and regulated nature of the Canadian grid creates a path dependency that favors fossil fuels and large-scale hydro over innovative solutions like energy storage and distributed renewables. To overcome these, the report recommends implementing clear decarbonization mandates, adopting performance-based regulation, improving interprovincial transmission infrastructure, and utilizing carbon pricing to shift investment toward zero-emission resources.

The research paper evaluates nine climate policy scenarios to determine the most effective way to address carbon leakage in the EU ETS. Using the CASE II model, it compares full auctioning against various border adjustment (BA) and output-based allocation (OB) strategies. The findings suggest that while full auctioning leads to a leakage ratio of 10%, border adjustments are the most efficient at reducing this ratio, often resulting in negative leakage (spillovers) where emissions in the rest of the world actually decrease. Output-based allocations also reduce leakage but are less efficient than border adjustments and can lead to higher carbon prices.

Carbon Market Watch argues that a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is preferable to the free allocation of allowances in the EU ETS, provided it is implemented without double protection. The organization recommends that CBAM cover cement, steel, chemicals, and power, and that its revenues be primarily disbursed as climate grants to developing countries. It further suggests that Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States be exempted from CBAM obligations to uphold the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities.

The document criticizes a proposed EPA rule that would allow coal ash ponds to remain open until 2038, arguing that this delay prolongs the leakage of toxins into groundwater and increases the risk of catastrophic dam failures, disproportionately affecting low-income communities and communities of color.

The document counters seven industry claims regarding coal ash, asserting that the material is hazardous, contaminates groundwater at both old and new sites, and is often recycled unsafely. It argues that federal regulation would encourage genuine innovation in recycling and that compliance costs would be negligible for the electric power industry.

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is projected to help reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, with the majority of reductions occurring in the electricity sector. Modeling suggests the IRA could enable the U.S. to reach 73 to 76 percent clean electricity by 2030, potentially reducing sector emissions by 67 to 78 percent below 2005 levels and creating 1.2 to 1.7 million additional jobs. However, because the IRA is incentive-based and lacks binding emission requirements, the document asserts that state policymakers, public utility commissions (PUCs), and governors must take proactive steps to ensure these benefits are achieved.

The document details Ontario's transition away from coal-fired power, highlighting the role of civil society and health-based arguments in driving the policy. It provides a timeline from the 1997 establishment of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance to the final conversion of the Thunder Bay plant to biomass in 2014, while noting initial opposition based on energy costs and job losses.

The Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) is a Johannesburg-based research institute that conducts social science research and advocacy to improve democratic governance and state capacity in South Africa. Its work is organised into five primary programmes: Land Governance, State Reform, Local Government, Just Transition, and COMPACT (a EU-funded initiative for municipal accountability). PARI collaborates with academic institutions, civil society, and state bodies to address issues such as tenure security, public procurement corruption, municipal financial sustainability, and the decarbonisation of the power sector.

Newtonian Shift is a room-sized board game and workshop developed by the Advanced Energy Centre (AEC) at MaRS and RMI's Electricity Innovation Lab (e-Lab). It simulates multiple years of energy-sector transformation in a single day, allowing 20-30 players to explore the effects of new technologies, policies, and business models from the perspectives of utilities, government, and customers. The program has engaged over 600 sector leaders across North America, including organizations such as CAISO and the New York Power Authority.

The document describes the use of NREL's Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) and RMI's internal dispatch model to evaluate the technical feasibility and cost of four electricity scenarios: Maintain, Migrate, Renew, and Transform. It outlines spatial and temporal resolutions, generation cost assumptions based on learning curve theory, and specific modifications made to approximate distributed energy resources in the Transform case.

The report analyzes the 'technological innovation system' (TIS) for solar PV and CCS, contrasting the EU's market-pull approach with the US's R&D-push focus. While solar PV has seen rapid growth and falling costs, it faces risks from fluctuating European subsidies. CCS is stalled in the 'valley of death' due to high capital requirements for large-scale demonstration and a lack of long-term climate policy, particularly in the US.

This report outlines a national strategy for the United States to transition to a clean energy economy to mitigate global warming. It proposes a combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and a cap-and-trade program to achieve significant emissions reductions. The analysis emphasizes the necessity of meeting specific targets by 2020 and 2030 to avoid the most severe climate impacts, while highlighting the potential for these transitions to spur economic growth and job creation.

The document outlines modifications to the EIA's AEO 2008 NEMS model to better reflect actual construction costs, updated tax credits, and state renewable electricity standards. It provides detailed capital cost and performance assumptions for various energy technologies, including wind, solar, geothermal, coal, natural gas, and nuclear power. The authors argue that EIA costs often underestimate actual project expenses, particularly for nuclear and coal plants. The text also defines a 'Blueprint Case' featuring a national renewable electricity standard ramping up to 40% by 2030 and a federal demonstration program for coal with carbon capture and storage. Finally, it assesses the technical potential of various renewable resources across the U.S.

WRI analysis suggests Mexico can achieve its conditional nationally determined contribution (NDC) at an average cost of US$12/ton by implementing 21 policy levers across the electricity, transport, and industry sectors. Such actions could save over 25,000 lives and $5 billion in health costs over 12 years. However, the report argues that meeting current NDC commitments is insufficient to reach Mexico's long-term strategy emissions abatement goal, necessitating higher ambition.

WRI analysis indicates that Michigan can reduce its CO2 emissions by 33 percent below 2011 levels by 2020 using current state policies and infrastructure. Key opportunities include meeting the renewable portfolio standard through in-state generation, increasing combined heat and power capacity, fully utilizing existing combined cycle natural gas capacity, and improving the efficiency of coal-fired power plants.

WRI analysis indicates that Wisconsin could reduce CO2 emissions by 43% below 2011 levels by 2020 by extending clean energy policies and optimizing existing infrastructure, which would surpass hypothetical EPA reduction requirements of 28% to 33%.