Legislation and Policy
This landmark clean energy legislation was passed in 2022
What is the Inflation Reduction Act?
Gas or petroleum fueled generators which help meet electricity demand when demand is at its highest
What are peaking units / peaker plants?
This categorization scheme tells you how mature a technology is in its development
What is Technological Readiness Level (TRL)?
This greenhouse gas comes mainly from overusing fertilizers and manure for agriculture
What is nitrous oxide?
This concept came about from trade unions and workers in the 1970s and 1980s
What is just transition?
This is the other name for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)
What is the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law?
This state has a power grid that is separate from other grids
What is Texas?
This energy technology also provides recreational uses
What is hydropower?
Both Germany's feed-in-tariff and Australian-Chinese ventures to kickstart manufacturing in China helped this energy technology become cheap
What is solar?
There are around 1.4 billion of these creatures on the planet
What are cows?
This legislation introduced a tax credit for clean hydrogen production
What is the Inflation Reduction Act?
Letting a grid operator or utility control your thermostat in a time of peak demand would be an example of this
What is demand response?
This technology involves drilling into solid rock, injecting water to fracture rock, and collecting heated water in another well
What is enhanced geothermal?
This energy technology has some sustainability challenges with quartz mining, land clearing, and dealing with toxic materials like lead and cadmium at its end of life
What is solar?
The two main categories of spending in the federal budget
What are mandatory and discretionary?
Cap-and-invest, an approach that imposes fees on fossil fuels and gives that money back to consumers, will be tried in this place
What is New York State?
A measure of the balance between supply and demand on a grid
What is grid frequency?
6% of the world's natural gas currently goes to making this energy source / energy carrier
What is [grey] hydrogen?
These three sectors are the main ones comprising US GHG emissions
A type of nuclear waste storage that involves storing it in a steel cylinder encased by concrete
What is dry cask storage?
The US government spent $5 trillion on this
What is pandemic stimulus funding?
This is the theoretical output of a facility registered with authorities for classifying the unit - it describes the maximum amount of power produced
What is nameplate capacity?
This type of chemical energy storage is already used at a utility scale
What is lithium-ion batteries?
This is the 2nd most used substance on earth after water and is responsible for 6% of GHG emissions
What is cement?
This tool gives you a visual snapshot of the cost, in $ per ton of GHG emissions reduced, for different technologies and helps you decide which technologies to support
What is the marginal abatement cost (MAC) curve?