The Climate Champions Podcast with Peter Fox-Penner
Listen now: Estimating our need for a power grid that’s 140-200% bigger than our current grid by 2050. How big of a power grid do we need to electrify as much as possible as a climate solution? What will we use to make and store large amounts of carbon-free power? How do we distribute it? […]
More Urgency, Not Less: The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Lessons for Local Climate Leadership
IGS Research | June 2020
More Urgency, Not Less: The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Lessons for Local Climate Leadership
The first of three reports that will provide community leaders, inside and outside of local government, with guidance about navigating their climate-action priorities through the gauntlet of challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis. Each report, based on a synthesis of expertise and analysis of local climate-action options and current research, […]
Listen: Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast Speaks with ISE’s Director
In this edition of the Columbia Energy Exchange podcast, host Jason Bordoff talks “Power after Carbon” with ISE’s Director, Peter Fox-Penner: As the dangers of climate change become ever more urgent and the costs of renewable energy plummet, the electricity sector has been experiencing wrenching shifts. More intermittent, distributed sources of energy, new technologies, new […]
Power after Carbon: Building a Clean, Resilient Grid
“Clearly written, assiduously researched, and never fantastical, Power after Carbon is a delight-filled primer for how to overhaul our electricity grid for the twenty-first century. If Fox-Penner can imagine and explain a carbon free system, then surely we can conceive of a way to build it!”—Gretchen Bakke, author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between […]
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Power after Carbon
Power after Carbon: Building a Clean, Resilient Grid
IGS Research | May 19, 2020
Integrating Electric Mobility Systems with the Grid Infrastructure
IGS Research | November 2019
Melting the ICE: Lessons from China and the West in the Transition from the Internal Combustion Engine to Electric Vehicles
IGS Research | June 2019
Carbon Free Boston Social Equity Report
IGS Research | May 2019