|
|
ENVIRONMENTAL
POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS
Environmental
Regulatory Support
ERI advises clients on regulatory developments and compliance
trends and assists in the preparation of strategic responses,
including the drafting of formal comments in regulatory proceedings.
- Environmental
Policy Tracking. ERI advises clients on initiatives underway in
the U.S. to limit emissions from the power sector. ERI
identifies the implications of carbon, mercury, particulate
and other potential limits for specific power-sector fuels,
technologies and plants. ERI also drafts comments for state
and federal proceedings.
Global
Climate Change
ERI advises clients on
policy and analytical aspects of climate change, including
control technologies, emissions trading, offsets and joint
implementation. Examples of ERI’s recent efforts are
provided below.
- Carbon Management
Strategies. ERI summarized the voluntary carbon-management
actions taken by U.S. power companies and the rationale
for such actions prior to a regulatory requirement. ERI
advised clients on the value of four carbon management
strategies and their use in practice: bilateral trades,
intra-firm trading, joint implementation projects and section
1605(b) filings.
- Handbook of Climate
Change Mitigation Actions for Developing Country Utilities
and Regulatory Agencies. ERI developed this handbook as
a summary of “best practices” to assist developing
countries in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The handbook
discusses each mitigation action, sources of further information,
conditions to determine applicability, cost-effectiveness,
and the emission reductions that can result from each action.
Alternative
Techniques
ERI assesses alternative
technology scenarios’ impacts on emissions.
- Alternative Paths
for Advanced Fossil Energy Technologies. ERI quantitatively
assessed the effect of alternative economic and technology
paths on U.S. power-sector carbon emissions through the
year 2050. Variables analyzed include (1) electricity supply
growth, (2) coal, nuclear and natural gas capacity growth,
(3) coal capacity retirements and (4) clean coal technology
deployment.
- Environmental Benefits
of Alternative Energy Technologies. ERI assessed the methodologies
used to compare clean energy technologies’ environmental
impacts. ERI also analyzed the impact of these methodologies
on U.S. energy/environmental policies.
- Role of Nuclear
Power in Carbon Reductions. ERI assessed the importance of global
and regional avoided emissions from nuclear power generation
for compliance with carbon emission-reduction targets.
ERI created briefing books that identified the quantity
and value of carbon emissions avoided by new nuclear power
capacity in a variety of operational, market and regulatory
scenarios.
Copyright © 2004
|
