Energy

The energy transition is happening. But the pace of change depends on a range of technical, business, and societal factors.

The practical question in Washington today is not whether regulations will go, but whether anything will replace them

Notes from the Institute’s Director of Research on some significant papers and contributions produced in 2016 under the INET rubric 

Estimated space requirements for solar energy sufficient to power the entire world are reassuringly trivial, at 0.5-1% of global land area. For individual countries however, the challenges vary greatly, reflecting dramatic differences in population density.

A comment on Goher-Ur-Rehman Mir and Servaas Storm’s Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth: Production Based vs Consumption-Based Evidence on Decoupling

We are grateful to Michael Grubb, Annela Anger-Kraavi, Igor Bashmakov, and Richard Wood for their interesting, empirically rich and structurally insightful commentary on our paper on the production-based and the consumption-based Carbon Kuznets Curve (CKC).

A stark warning from Institute researchers on the probability that ‘2°C capital stock’ will be reached in 2017

“You are now leaving the world as you know it.”

Where will today’s innovation come from?