{"title":"Integrated Energy Planning in Uncertain Times","authors":"Paul A. DeCotis","doi":"10.1002/gas.22455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22455","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Integrated energy planning as referenced in this Column considers the interdependencies among and between energy resources and the infrastructures necessary to bring energy to market. This includes fuel-switching, transitioning end-use equipment and appliances from fossil-fuel use to electricity in buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"41 9","pages":"17-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143564939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconciling the Cybersecurity Workforce Needs of Utilities and Universities","authors":"Betsy Soehren-Jones, Jordan Olivier, Casey Kubow","doi":"10.1002/gas.22453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22453","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 2021, the Colorado electric cooperative Delta-Montrose Electric Association (DMEA) was hit by a cyberattack that disrupted its payment processing, billing, and other internal systems. While the electric grid was not impacted, it took over a month to bring the affected systems back online.<sup>1</sup> This incident is one of many unfortunate stories that are becoming an all too familiar headline. From sophisticated ransomware attacks to state-sponsored espionage, the potential consequences of a successful cyberattack on a utility company are far-reaching. These attacks could have devastating impacts on individuals, businesses, and national security. Before diving into how academia is addressing the cybersecurity need, it should be noted what the current cyber threats facing the utilities industry are, why this sector is particularly vulnerable and targeted, and the growing need for cybersecurity talent to mitigate these risks.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"41 9","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143564937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analyzing Global Progress on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 7 and 13—Clean Energy and Climate Action","authors":"David W. South, Savas Alpay","doi":"10.1002/gas.22456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22456","url":null,"abstract":"<p>At the dawn of the new millennium, the international community agreed to initiate an exciting global agenda, known as Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to address the growing socioeconomic and environmental challenges in a structured and comprehensive manner. After 15 years of MDGs, although the outcomes were not very satisfactory at the global level, many lessons learned paved the way toward an even more ambitious agenda with aspirations for a more equitable and human-centric development: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"41 9","pages":"23-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143564940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Cost Savings to Community Benefits: The Equity Potential of V2G Solutions","authors":"Andrew Chabot, Leah Liebovitz","doi":"10.1002/gas.22450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22450","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In today's regulatory environment, distribution utilities are under pressure to meet the dual priorities of simultaneously adhering to regulatory mandates to ensure reliable, safe, and equitable outcomes for their customers while providing reasonable market-based returns on investment to shareholders. This is a challenging task, as traditional infrastructure upgrades are costly and require significant capital expenditures (CapEx), ultimately requiring costs to be passed onto customers. Unfortunately, this often disproportionately affects low-income households, who spend a higher proportion of their discretionary income on energy.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"41 8","pages":"15-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143423789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Doesn't Work: Path Dependence in US Electricity Supply in 2025","authors":"Jeff D. Makholm","doi":"10.1002/gas.22451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22451","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ten years ago, in 2015, I began writing regular bi-monthly columns for this journal. My publications focused mostly on US federal energy regulatory problems, stretching back more than 30 years.<sup>1</sup> Reflecting on the decidedly international focus of my 2012 book on economic and political problems relating to the world's pipelines, my regular columns became <i>International Energy</i>.<sup>2</sup> I spent years attempting to establish successful regulatory regimes in many countries—often ultimately failing, as in Argentina when by 2002, wider social and national economic problems overwhelmed the regulatory system developed to support that country's hopeful early-1990s industry privatizations.<sup>3</sup> In doing such international regulatory work, I had the privilege of looking at US energy problems from overseas. It is easier to see the uniquely supportive institutional foundations of US regulation when one compares them to newly formed—frequently unworkable—practices abroad. <i>International Energy</i> seemed right.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"41 8","pages":"20-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143423790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Natural Gas in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Global LNG, and Administration Change","authors":"Richard G. Smead","doi":"10.1002/gas.22452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22452","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The US natural gas industry is entering into a new era of dynamic competing forces and uncertainty that may exceed any of the chaos of the past. As I have written multiple times in this column, it is critical for natural gas to find its place in the long-term future energy mix, not just as a “bridge” or as an old has-been being ushered out the door. The dynamics of abundance, responsiveness to load changes, and its reliability and resilience make the US natural gas resource valuable for both national security through both liquefied natural gas (LNG) and electric reliability.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"41 8","pages":"29-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143423791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carbon Dioxide Conversion: Pathway to Defossilize Carbon-Based Materials and Durably Store Carbon","authors":"Elizabeth Zeitler","doi":"10.1002/gas.22445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22445","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) conversion is a suite of chemical and biological processes that transform the carbon in CO<sub>2</sub> into other forms, such as mineral carbonates, alcohols, hydrocarbons, polymers, or elemental carbon materials. Such processes allow CO<sub>2</sub> to replace fossil fuels to enable sustainable production of chemicals and materials, and support durable storage of CO<sub>2</sub> in long-lived products, two underexamined aspects of addressing CO<sub>2</sub> accumulation in the atmosphere. CO<sub>2</sub> can, in principle, serve as a feedstock for any carbon-based product, and is better suited to forming carbonates, other oxygenated products, or single-carbon products that share similar properties to CO<sub>2</sub>. CO<sub>2</sub> conversion requires new infrastructure for CO<sub>2</sub> capture, clean energy, and product distribution, and may need CO<sub>2</sub> transportation, clean hydrogen, and water resources. Infrastructure buildouts could benefit from clustered siting, integration of utilization infrastructure with other carbon management infrastructure, improved public engagement, and improved research on pipeline modeling and testing for safety from propagating brittle fractures. CO<sub>2</sub> utilization is enabled by economic and noneconomic policies that develop the sector's value for sustainable product formation and long-term carbon storage. Though CO<sub>2</sub> conversion technologies are operating today in select markets at pilot, demonstration, and commercial scales, most areas of the product and process landscape require investment in research, development, and demonstration. The first<sup>1</sup> and final<sup>2</sup> reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Carbon Utilization Infrastructure, Markets, Research, and Development offer comprehensive assessments of the infrastructure, market, policy, and research needs to enable CO<sub>2</sub> conversion to serve the needs of circular carbon economies and durable carbon storage.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"41 8","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143423787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Importance of Natural Gas for Electrification and Reliability","authors":"Sandy Simon, Brandon Lawson, Colin Ferrera","doi":"10.1002/gas.22449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22449","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the coming years, it is expected there will be rapid growth in energy demand fueled by population growth, the technology revolution (including data center and tech hub energy needs), and the resurgence of manufacturing in the US. To meet this growth, there is a growing recognition of the need for reliable and low-cost fuels as a part of our energy mix and perhaps to rapidly expand their provision.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"41 8","pages":"9-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143423788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Community-Centered Grid Infrastructure Development","authors":"Penni McLean-Conner","doi":"10.1002/gas.22443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22443","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Electric load in the US is surging, and it is expected to continue to grow at an exponential rate and require utility investment in new electric infrastructure. What is driving this growth? Several major energy trends, including increased industrial reshoring, data centers, and electrification of buildings and transportation. The result is rapid energy demand growth requiring the siting of new and expanded electric infrastructure.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"41 7","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143113478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage Survive the Voluntary Financing Structure?","authors":"David W. South, Savas Alpay","doi":"10.1002/gas.22447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22447","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Baku Climate Change Conference (referred to hereafter as COP29) was held in Baku, Azerbaijan in November (2024).<sup>1</sup> It was billed as the “Climate Finance COP” since, among other goals, it was to agree on an updated spending target: the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance (NCQG). The NCQG would replace the current goal for developed countries to mobilize $100 billion per year to aid developing countries between 2020 and 2025.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"41 7","pages":"21-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143113492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}