Topic: energy

Ensuring that the opportunities of clean energy are available to the nations that need them most by guiding effective international collaboration on low-carbon technology.

WRI works with businesses, governments, and researchers of all kinds to ensure that technologies to provide low-carbon energy effectively, efficiently, and inexpensively are available and deployed around the world.

WRI works with business, policymakers, and researchers to move the world toward cleaner, less expensive forms of power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make low-carbon energy available everywhere.

Building the capacity of developing countries to track progress towards meeting domestic climate, energy, and development goals.

Working with nations to achieve the twin goals of robust economic growth and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Working with EPA and other federal agencies to help design, inform and clarify U.S. government activities to reduce greenhouse gases.

Offers six principles of smart energy policy for developing countries

This working paper identifies key components of smart renewable energy policy in developing countries, focusing on the power sector. It also provides recommendations for maximizing the effectiveness of international support for deployment of renewable energies, drawn from these on-the-ground experiences in developing countries.

Recently, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a comprehensive study on renewable energy, entitled Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. The report finds that by 2050, nearly 80 percent of the world’s energy supply could be provided by renewable energy sources. WRI Analyst Lutz Weischer, who works on renewable energy policies, sat down to talk about the report’s implications.

12-step guide makes solar power accessible to small businesses and local governments

*Editor’s note: Experts will be attending DOE’s Solar America Cities Annual Meeting, April 26-28, and ar

In two legal challenges filed in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, a number of states and non-governmental organizations sought to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate new and existing power plants under section 111 of the Clean Air Act.

WRI experts take closer look at some of the myths, inaccuracies, and misinformation surrounding Environmental Protection Agency regulation of greenhouse gases.

S.699 authorizes the Department of Energy to conduct a program to demonstrate commercial application of integrated geologic storage projects, and provides a framework for selection criteria for these

China, the United States, and the European Union take on transmission upgrades

This report examines electricity transmission developments and challenges for renewable energy in the European Union (EU), China, and the United States.

Technology Transfer

Renewable Energy & Efficiency

Low-Carbon Energy Technology

Measurement and Performance Tracking in Developing Countries

Low-Carbon Development in Emerging Economies

U.S. Federal Agencies and Climate Change

PRESS RELEASE: New Paper Lays Out Smart Policies for Renewable Energy Growth

Grounding Green Power: Bottom-Up Perspectives on Smart Renewable Energy Policy in Developing Countries

IPCC Study: Renewable Energy Could Provide Majority of World’s Energy by 2050

PRESS RELEASE: New Group Purchasing Model Slashes Cost of Solar Power

Dialogue on Performance Standards for Existing Power Plants: Participant Comments to EPA

Myths and Facts about U.S. EPA Standards

WRI Summary of S. 699: Department of Energy Carbon Capture and Sequestration Program Amendments Act of 2011

High Wire Act: Improving the Grid for Renewable Energy

High Wire Act: Electricity Transmission Infrastructure and its Impact on the Renewable Energy Market

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