White Papers

This Torus whitepaper explores innovative strategies like hybrid energy storage systems and virtual power plants — offering faster deployment, grid stability, and sustainability to ensure reliable power in an evolving energy landscape.

This white paper from Highland Electric delves into the performance of electric school buses in cold weather conditions, addressing common concerns and misconceptions. By examining case studies from Vermont and Michigan, the paper highlights the reliability and efficiency of electric school buses, even in extreme temperatures.

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provides both domestic manufacturing incentives, including the $10 billion Advanced Energy Project Credit, as well as bonuses for the use of domestic content. These incentives combined with growing demand from the U.S. market have catalyzed significant investment in domestic manufacturing.

This paper explores the progress and challenges of building out a diversified supply chain for solar and energy storage, including:
• The balance of onshoring, nearshoring, and forging alliances
• The solar supply chain
• The battery supply chain

As part of its broader work to support Connecticut’s greenhouse gas reduction and ZEV goals, the state’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) engaged RMI to develop a feasibility study for providing electrified mobility options to LMI residents. The goal of this study was to identify solutions that will share the benefits of transportation electrification with Connecticut’s LMI communities and to develop potential models of how these solutions could be designed, funded, and implemented.

With nearly 50 million students attending over 130,000 K-12 schools, the education sector has an important role to play in our country’s transition to clean energy. This report tracks and analyzes the progress of the movement and shares the success stories of schools that are leading the way.

According to the Net-Zero Steel Sector Transition Strategy from the Mission Possible Partnership (MPP), under the business-as-usual scenario (MPP BAU), by 2050 steel production alone will account for more than ~25% of the total carbon budget of a 1.5°C pathway.

In this brief, we assess (1) the potential role that CDR plays in scenarios that limit long-term temperature increase to 1.5°C, and (2) what we should be doing now, given the time needed to develop and deploy these technologies at scale.

The Russian government’s decision to invade Ukraine puts into sharp contrast the deep entanglement between energy, security and geopolitics. Now more than ever, the European Union needs unity and resolve in its response and a focus on resilience in the face of interlinking crises.

Authors from Ember, E3G, Bellona and RAP have collaborated to identify the indispensable role clean energy solutions play in rapidly ending the EU’s reliance on fossil gas imports from Russia.

When we think of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, we usually envision power plants, factories, cars, and smokestacks — not farms and ranches. But it turns out that agriculture and land use, as well as the larger global food system, are among the biggest contributors to climate change. And, as a result, changing these systems, can be an important source of climate solutions

But how can this be? Isn’t climate change caused by burning fossil fuels, that release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere?

There’s more to it than that.

Texans will never forget February 2021. Winter Storm Uri crippled the state’s natural gas supply and sparked a cascading failure of our electricity system. More than 4 million homes and businesses lost power, many of them for days. More than 700 people died. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas estimated the electricity crisis cost the state between $80 and $130 billion.
Yet we already have the technological capability to significantly fortify the grid from increasing threats, reduce our reliance on fossil fuel electricity, and reduce electricity-related climate and air pollution.

Using energy data collected from Pecan Street’s network of connected homes in Austin during Texas’ historic 2021 winter storm, this paper demonstrates that we already have the technology to control demand and better protect families from electricity crises.