Resources for the Future

The Biden administration seeks to transform the #electricity sector in a little over a decade. But one major hurdle could prove a dealbreaker: modernizing and expanding the grid. 🛠️⚡ In the latest issue of Resources magazine️, Richard Schmalensee explores the various challenges with our current energy grid, and potential ways to expand and modernize it. Learn more! 👇 https://lnkd.in/e49hXWPp

🚨Out NOW🚨 Issue 215 of Resources magazine is now live! In it, we take a look at the #electricity sector—including evolving #energy markets, modernizing the grid, and more. Check it out! 🔎📖 https://lnkd.in/e6YR_MXU

The #InflationReductionAct is expected to greatly reduce #electricity-sector #emissions, largely through the 45Y and 48E tax credits. 📉📝 In a new issue brief, Aaron Bergman and Kevin Rennert provide an overview of these tax credits and some potential challenges facing the credits' implementation. Learn more! 👇

Do you need data to improve #economic benefits assessment of #chemicals? To make a better business case? While chemicals provide countless benefits that make life better for people they need to be soundly managed to avoid risks to human health and the environment. The OECD has undertaken the Surveys on Willingness-to-Pay to Avoid Negative Chemicals-Related Health Impacts (SWACHE) project. Its goal is to improve the basis of doing cost benefit analysis of chemicals regulations. The values derived can be used to demonstrate and measure the economic benefits of minimising the impacts of chemicals on human health. In our new video, the OECD Environment 's Jo Tyndall (Director), Damien Dussaux (Senior Economist) and I (Eeva Leinala, Principal Administrator) discuss SWACHE's purpose and impact, alongside collaborators from Resources for the Future and the European Chemicals Agency. SWACHE website: https://lnkd.in/ednSq9ni SWACHE brochure: https://lnkd.in/eKrTVgVD SWACHE video: https://lnkd.in/eYg_WS8X

Earlier this week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced a new rule to improve transmission planning. 💡📝 Join us on Thursday, May 23 for a webinar exploring the new rule, and whether it could help expand the US electric grid in the face of increased #electricity demand. RSVP today! 👇 https://lnkd.in/efmnUc8Q

The Atacama Desert has the highest #solar power potential of anywhere on Earth. But does the region's rapid solar generation growth mean anything for the health of people who live there? 🏜 ☀ A new article in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management by Nathaly M. Rivera (Universidad de Chile), J. Cristobal Ruiz-Tagle (The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Beia Spiller (Resources for the Future) quantifies the short-term health benefits of this explosion in new solar capacity. The authors find that new solar generation displaced coal as a source of energy and leads to a notable reduction in hospital admissions related to respiratory illnesses—especially for those who live within 10 kilometers downwind of a coal plant that generated less energy due to solar expansion. Learn more. 👇   https://lnkd.in/e4_ENXdV

How prevalent and accessible are #ElectricVehicle charging stations? 🔌🚗 In the third podcast episode in our #EV series, we talked with Kimathi Boothe (DUNAMIS CLEAN ENERGY PARTNERS, LLC) about all things EV charging! Plug into the conversation! 🎧 https://lnkd.in/eifBYNhX

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency that oversees the transport of energy between states, just published a rule that may help facilitate a faster expansion of #transmission capacity in the United States. ⚡📈 Molly Robertson, a senior research associate at Resources for the Future, discusses the importance of transmission for a cleaner #electric grid and policy solutions that can help connect people to clean #electricity. ⬇️ 

One technology has been key to the development of #ElectricVehicles: the battery. 🔋🚗 In the second podcast episode in our #EV series, we sat down with Micah Ziegler (Georgia Tech School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) to talk about the shocking history and future of EV batteries. Tune in! 🎧 https://lnkd.in/eShUPqMz

What might the future of electric transportation look like? 🚗🚌⚡️ Learn more in a recent episode of the Energy Transition Talk podcast (USC Viterbi School of Engineering), featuring our own Beia Spiller! Listen on your favorite podcast platform or watch the video version here: https://lnkd.in/e2--nTFp