Energy Policy

Sanya Carley of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that people will fixate on even rare battery fires and explosions, connecting them to new infrastructure proposed in their community.

A new paper from the Kleinman Center of Energy Policy in the Weitzman School of Design shows that utilities and regulators will need to consider how home energy storage systems for renewable energy will affect the electric grid.

Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences warns that diverting attention from fossil fuel companies toward the rich could play into the hands of a deflection campaign against climate regulation.

Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the displacement of hundreds of millions of climate refugees is inevitable but would take place over a much more manageable timeline if carbon emissions were immediately reduced, as opposed to continuing with current rates of fossil fuel burning.

Danny Cullenward of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that there’s a strong case for gigaton-scale carbon removal but criticizes oil company Occidental’s claim that such technology will enable the continuation of oil production.

Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that inequality in energy use is a great argument for progressive climate pricing.

Analysts at the Weitzman School of Design’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy predict that the need for dysprosium will increase by more than 2,500 percent by 2035.

Researchers at Penn have helped develop an electrolyzer capable of converting carbon dioxide into propane in a manner that’s scalable and economically viable.