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Fifth National Climate Assessment Reveals Urgent Action Needed to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions 第五次国家气候评估显示亟需采取行动减少温室气体排放
Climate and Energy Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1002/gas.22387
Echo D. Cartwright
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Loss and Damage Fund—Operationalized at COP28 but Funding and Allocation Process Unresolved 损失和损害基金--已在缔约方大会第二十八届会议上开始运作,但供资和分配程序尚未解决
Climate and Energy Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1002/gas.22389
David W. South
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Redefining the Regulatory Compact 重新定义监管契约
Climate and Energy Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1002/gas.22388
Paul A. DeCotis
{"title":"Redefining the Regulatory Compact","authors":"Paul A. DeCotis","doi":"10.1002/gas.22388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22388","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the past three decades, utility regulators have increasingly strayed from traditional methods of setting utility revenue requirements to improve performance, help achieve public policy goals, and reduce costs. Under the traditional regulatory compact, utilities are allowed to collect revenues from customers sufficient to cover the costs of providing services. This includes recovery of all operating costs, power purchase costs and other pass-throughs, and return of and on investment necessary to maintain safe and reliable service to all customers regardless of size, type, or demands they place on the system. And utility services are to be provided at a fair and reasonable cost, as determined by regulators.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 7","pages":"24-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139419681","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}
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The Private Virtual Network Operator Model for Field Area Network 现场区域网络的专用虚拟网络运营商模式
Climate and Energy Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.1002/gas.22381
Chris Timberg, Leah Liebovitz, Ben Miller
{"title":"The Private Virtual Network Operator Model for Field Area Network","authors":"Chris Timberg,&nbsp;Leah Liebovitz,&nbsp;Ben Miller","doi":"10.1002/gas.22381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22381","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Uninterrupted grid edge connectivity is essential for distribution utilities driving towards a future where efficient, secure, and reliable field area network (FAN) operation is not just preferable but required. Communications and network connectivity have been rapidly evolving over the last several years and will continue to do so—including in the areas of spectrum options, carrier solutions, device manufacturers, core manufacturers, and network management options. Utilities have a greater choice of options to deploy, while needing to remain prudent in their investments. One of the options gaining traction in the United States is the private virtual network operator (PVNO) model.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 6","pages":"8-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138491440","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}
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The Road Less Traveled: Another Path for the Energy Transition 少有人走的路能源转型的另一条道路
Climate and Energy Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.1002/gas.22383
Jeff D. Makholm, Laura T.W. Olive
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Regardless of its Merits, Carbon Capture Faces Several Challenges 无论其优点如何,碳捕集都面临若干挑战
Climate and Energy Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.1002/gas.22384
Richard G. Smead
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Ten Resolutions for the Energy Industry in 2024 2024 年能源行业的十大决心
Climate and Energy Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.1002/gas.22382
Jason Price, Niki Shah
{"title":"Ten Resolutions for the Energy Industry in 2024","authors":"Jason Price,&nbsp;Niki Shah","doi":"10.1002/gas.22382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22382","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Welcome to the fourth edition of the annual Top Ten Resolutions for the utility industry. These ten resolutions illustrate a renewed vigor and determination entering the New Year to make progress toward accomplishing so many things. Now armed with unprecedented federal funding and a majority of public support, the call for modernizing our energy system action and subsequent acceleration of this action is louder than ever. While utility priorities continue to change as the industry and world transform to a clean energy economy, utilities continue to rise to the occasion, and utility leadership continues to seize opportunities with a continued mission to deliver safe, reliable, clean, and low-cost energy.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 6","pages":"17-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138491442","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}
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Changing Energy Market Landscape Drives NAESB’s Industry-Initiated Standards Development in 2024 不断变化的能源市场格局推动 NAESB 在 2024 年制定行业标准
Climate and Energy Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.1002/gas.22380
Caroline Trum
{"title":"Changing Energy Market Landscape Drives NAESB’s Industry-Initiated Standards Development in 2024","authors":"Caroline Trum","doi":"10.1002/gas.22380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22380","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ten billion dollars—the amount of money the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) estimates could be saved through the deployment of virtual power plants (VPPs), simultaneously helping to meet the estimated 200 gigawatt (GW) of peak demand growth expected by 2030.<sup>1</sup> While there are variations within the industry on the construct of VPPs, one common definition of a VPP is “aggregations of [distributed energy resources] DERs that can balance electric loads and provide utility-scale and utility-grade services like a traditional power plant.”<sup>2</sup> DOE is actively supporting VPPs, as evidenced by the issuance of the September 2023 report <i>Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Virtual Power Plants</i>, as well as the announcement that same month of a $300 billion commitment to Project Hestia, an effort to make DERs, and the accompanying consumer-facing software to enable a nationwide VPP infrastructure, more widely available to American homeowners.<sup>3</sup> This backing, combined with recent legislative and regulatory actions, such as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order No. 2222, which established a framework for DER aggregations that meet minimum size requirements of 100 kilowatts (kW) to participate in organized wholesale markets, is likely to promote greater deployment and participation of DERs in the market and could result in a large influx of such resources in a relatively short time span.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 6","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138491439","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}
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Impacts and Benefits of State and International Carbon Market Systems to Achieve Emissions Reduction Goals 国家和国际碳市场体系对实现减排目标的影响和效益
Climate and Energy Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.1002/gas.22376
Denise Owusu, Alyssa Ramirez
{"title":"Impacts and Benefits of State and International Carbon Market Systems to Achieve Emissions Reduction Goals","authors":"Denise Owusu,&nbsp;Alyssa Ramirez","doi":"10.1002/gas.22376","DOIUrl":"10.1002/gas.22376","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are projected to continue increasing through 2040, resulting in at least a 1.5°C increase in global temperatures, as modeled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).<sup>1</sup> The near-term IPCC modeling scenarios include extreme and concurrent hazards, with unequal distribution of warming across geographies and impacts on industries, and socioeconomic communities and populations.<sup>2</sup> Globally, 41 percent of carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emissions are attributed to the energy sector.<sup>3</sup> The United States is responsible for 12.5 percent of the global emissions, with China as the second largest GHG emitter.<sup>4</sup> In efforts to reduce emissions, an increasing number of governments and regulating bodies are employing a variety of policy mechanisms, creating carbon markets to incentivize companies to invest in innovative and efficient clean energy technologies. Among these policies is a cap-and-trade or a cap-and-invest (C&amp;I) framework impacting the largest emitters. The C&amp;I framework is intended to hold industries accountable while allowing individual companies to buy, sell, trade, or invest allowances for carbon emissions.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 5","pages":"8-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135565853","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}
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Addressing Battery Energy Storage Risks Crucial to Meeting Clean Energy Goals 解决电池储能风险对实现清洁能源目标至关重要
Climate and Energy Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.1002/gas.22377
Echo D. Cartwright
{"title":"Addressing Battery Energy Storage Risks Crucial to Meeting Clean Energy Goals","authors":"Echo D. Cartwright","doi":"10.1002/gas.22377","DOIUrl":"10.1002/gas.22377","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As society adapts to a changing climate and responds globally and locally to the undeniable and more frequent impacts of climate change, now more than ever government leaders are accelerating efforts to simultaneously mitigate these impacts and increase the speed of decarbonization. Summer 2023 witnessed more devastating and frequently occurring weather-related events, including more severe hurricanes and tropical cyclones forming more rapidly and providing humans within their path little time to prepare. Damaging winds, torrential rains, higher storm surge and flash floods, record numbers of wildfires burning out of control—impacting the public health of people thousands of miles away from the fires, and the hottest summer of atmospheric and ocean temperatures ever recorded across the world are now approaching a new normal.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"40 5","pages":"16-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135565850","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}
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