How Michigan Can Meet Its Clean Power Plan Targets

This fact sheet examines how Michigan can use its existing policies and infrastructure to meet its emission standards under the Clean Power Plan while minimizing compliance costs, ensuring reliability, and harnessing economic opportunities

Power Sector Opportunities for Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Minnesota

President obama announced a national climate plan in June 2013 and directed the U.S. Environmental Protection agency (EPa) to set carbon pollution standards for the power sector. once EPa establishes those standards, states will implement their own plans for achieving those reductions. In this fact sheet, WRI examines existing tools Minnesota can use to reduce power plant emissions

Power Sector Opportunities for Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Colorado

President Obama announced a national climate plan in June 2013 and directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set carbon pollution standards for the power sector. Once EPA establishes those standards, states will implement their own plans for achieving those reductions. In this fact sheet, WRI examines existing tools Colorado can use to reduce power plant emissions

How Pennsylvania Can Meet Its Clean Power Plan Targets

This fact sheet examines how Pennsylvania can meet -- and even exceed -- its CPP standards through expanding its clean energy policies and making better use of existing power plants while minimizing compliance costs, ensuring reliability, and harnessing economic opportunities in clean energy. Pennsylvania's existing clean energy policies put the state's power plants in good position to make carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reductions that will help the state meet its CPP targets. Existing policies that promote renewable development and improve energy efficiency through 2020 -- 21 will help Pennsylvania meet its initial targets. If extended and expanded, these policies could provide a basis to meet the targets through 2030

Potential Effects of Emission Taxes on CO2 Emissions in OECD and LDC Countries

A set of existing optimization models representing the energy systems of the OECD and LDC countries with a time horizon up to 2020 was applied to derive first-order estimates of the techno-economic potential for emission reduction. The driving force for the introduction of reduction measures was a scheme of taxes levied on the emissions of 6 relevant pollutants -- including the greenhouse gases CO2 and methane. The tax levels introduced are based on the taxes discussed by the Swedish government administration; they are the break-even point to test which measures are cost-effective and which emission levels can be reached at these costs. The regional models offer the choice between the following alternatives as response to increases in expenditures caused by emission taxes: (1) Reduction of final energy demand by supplying the requested services by other means (i .e., conservation). (2) Substitution of "dirty" fuels by fuels entailing less pollution. (3) Introduction of "clean" technologies for the same purposes (e.g., a combined cycle based on coal gasification is a much cleaner process for electricity generation from coal than conventional coal power plants). (4) For SO2 and NOx emissions pollution reduction technologies (i.e., scrubbers and catalysts) can be added to existing technologies in order to reduce emissions. Alternative scenarios with emission taxes are compared to a Base Scenario without taxes related to pollutant emissions. The results indicate that an increase in CO2 emissions in the OECD and LDC regions of 47% over the next 30 years in the Base Scenario would be changed into stabilization up to 2010 by measures induced by the tax levels introduced. Thereafter, however, energy consumption growth in the LDC area, in conjunction with the exhaustion of economically viable emission reduction measures, reverse this trend: CO2 emissions start to increase again after 2010

Power Sector Opportunities for Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Minnesota

President obama announced a national climate plan in June 2013 and directed the U.S. Environmental Protection agency (EPa) to set carbon pollution standards for the power sector. once EPa establishes those standards, states will implement their own plans for achieving those reductions. In this fact sheet, WRI examines existing tools Minnesota can use to reduce power plant emissions

Power Sector Opportunities for Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Illinois

President Obama announced a national climate plan in June 2013 and directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set carbon pollution standards for the power sector. Once EPA establishes those standards, states will implement their own plans for achieving those reductions. In this fact sheet, WRI examines existing tools Illinois can use to reduce power plant emissions

Power Sector Opportunities for Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Ohio

President Obama announced a national climate plan in June 2013, and directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set carbon pollution standards for the power sector. once EPA establishes those standards, states will implement their own plans for achieving those reductions. In this fact sheet, WRI examines existing tools ohio can use to reduce power plant emissions

Power Sector Opportunities for Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Illinois

President Obama announced a national climate plan in June 2013 and directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set carbon pollution standards for the power sector. Once EPA establishes those standards, states will implement their own plans for achieving those reductions. In this fact sheet, WRI examines existing tools Illinois can use to reduce power plant emissions

How Missouri Can Meet Its Clean Power Plan Targets

This fact sheet examines how Missouri can use its existing policies and infrastructure to meet its emission standards under the Clean Power Plan while minimizing compliance costs, ensuring reliability, and harnessing economic opportunitie