© Robert Glenn Ketchum
- • BP Energy Outlook 2030
This edition updates our view of the likely path of global energy markets to 2030, taking account of developments over the past year. The underlying methodology remains unchanged – we make assumptions on changes in policy, technology and the economy, based on extensive internal and external consultations, and use a range of analytical tools to build a “to the best of our knowledge” view. (Related files: Statistical Review, pdf 659KB, and Summary Tables, pdf 65.5KB.) – January 2012 (pdf 1.75MB)
- • Solar Energy Development on DoD Installations
This analysis determined that over 7,000 megawatts of solar energy development is technically feasible and financially viable at several Department of Defense (DoD) installations in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts of California. (Read the Executive Summary, pdf 812KB) – January 2012 (pdf 14.7MB)
- • Benchmarking Electric Utility Energy Efficiency Portfolios in the US
There are few signs that the urgently needed change in direction in global energy trends is underway. Although the recovery in the world economy since 2009 has been uneven, and future economic prospects remain uncertain, global primary energy demand rebounded by a remarkable 5% in 2010, pushing CO2 emissions to a new high. Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400 billion. The number of people without access to electricity remained unacceptably high at 1.3 billion... – November 2011 (pdf 2.41MB)
- • Ensuring America’s Freedom of Movement: A National Security Imperative to Reduce U.S. Oil Dependence *New
This study examines the national security implications of a transition away from conventional petroleumbased fuels in the U.S. transportation sector. Our national security focus is based primarily on our experiences as senior military leaders and offers perspectives that differ from traditional energy analysis. We consider geopolitical, economic and environmental aspects of energy as a matter of course, but view the full suite of issues through a security prism... – 2011 (pdf 7.82MB)
- • Public Support for Climate and Energy Policies in May 2011
A May 2011 report, Climate Change in the American Mind: Public Support for Climate & Energy Policies in May 2011, was conducted by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. It provides a comparison of responses from November 2008 to January 2010 to June 2010 to May 2011. – May 2011 (pdf 1.52MB)
- • Unlocking the Benefits of Energy Efficiency
Unlocking the benefits of energy efficiency: An executive dilemma is an Economist Intelligence Unit research paper, sponsored by Ingersoll Rand. It reviews the importance of energy efficiency within business today and executive attitudes towards this issue. For the purposes of this report, energy efficiency is defined as: “implementing initiatives that reduce energy consumption or use energy more efficiently.” The report is based on the following inputs... – February 2011 (pdf 1.04MB)
- • The Future of the Electric Grid *New
The U.S. electric grid is a vast physical and human network connecting thousands of electricity generators to millions of consumers—a linked system of public and private enterprises operating within a web of government institutions: federal, regional, state, and municipal. The grid will face a number of serious challenges over the next two decades, while new technologies also present valuable opportunities for meeting these challenges. A failure to realize these opportunities or meet these challenges could result in degraded reliability, significantly increased costs, and a failure to achieve several public policy goals. This report, the fifth in the MIT Energy Initiative’s Future of series, aims to provide a comprehensive, objective portrait of the U.S. electric grid and the identification and analysis of areas in which intelligent policy changes, focused research... – 2011 (pdf 4.04MB)
- • Drilling in Extreme Environments
This ongoing demand for energy, together with diminishing supplies of traditional fossil fuels, especially in areas where they are easy to find and recover, is pushing oil and gas exploration out into new geographical and technological frontiers. This not only brings with it fresh new challenges and risks for oil and gas companies operating in these more extreme environments, but also for energy insurers who help the global energy industry manage the risks associated with offshore drilling... – 2011 (pdf 5.54MB)
- • World Energy Outlook 2011
This report provides a discussion of benchmarking ratepayer-funded electric utility energy efficiency portfolios in the United States. Measuring and comparing energy efficiency portfolios is becoming increasingly important as energy efficiency begins to play a larger role in our nation’s energy mix, and utility energy efficiency budgets increase... – 2011 (pdf 796KB)
- • AEO2011 Early Release Overview
Projections in the Annual Energy Outlook 2011 (AEO2011) Reference case focus on the factors that shape U.S. energy markets in the long term. Under the assumption that current laws and regulations will remain generally unchanged throughout the projections, the AEO2011 Reference case provides the basis for examination and discussion of energy market trends and the direction they may take in the future. It also serves as a starting point for analysis of potential changes in energy policies, rules, or regulations... – Decemember 2010 (pdf 436KB)
- • Energy Innovation: Driving Technology Competition and Cooperation Among the U.S., China, India, and Brazil
If governments are to respond effectively to the challenge of climate change, they will need to ramp up their support for innovation in lowcarbon technologies and make sure that the resulting developments are diffused and adopted quickly. Yet for the United States, there is a tension inherent in these goals: the country’s interests in encouraging the spread of technology can clash with its efforts to strengthen its own economy. – November 2010 (pdf 1.49MB)
- • International Energy Outlook 2010
With Projections to 2035 – May 25, 2010 (pdf 117KB)
- • Lloyd’s 360° Risk Insight, Sustainable Energy Security: Strategic Risks and Opportunities for Business
The report looks at short-term (one to five years) and medium-term (five to ten years) risks to general business. It also considers longer-term (ten years plus) issues, particularly as they impact on technological and investment choices for the energy sector. While energy supply disruption is frequently the result of technical faults and strike action, we do not deal with this here, but concentrate instead on the impacts of constraints on carbon and carbon-based resources. – 2010 (pdf 2.19MB)
- • Powering America’s Defense: Energy and the Risks to National Security
This new volume builds on that finding (see National Security and the Threat of Climate Change below) by considering the security risks inherent in America’s current energy posture, energy choices the nation can make to enhance our national security, the impact of climate change on our energy choices and our national security, and the role DoD can play in the nation’s approach to energy security. These issues were viewed through the lens of the extensive military experience of the Military Advisory Board. The issues were considered solely for their impact on America’s national security. – May 2009 (pdf 806KB)
- • Tires and Passenger Vehicle Fuel Economy *New
During 2005, gasoline and diesel prices, adjusted for inflation, rose to levels not experienced in the United States in a quarter century. For a growing number of Americans, the price of motor fuel has become a real financial concern. Whether fuel prices will stabilize or fluctuate remains to be seen, but one apparent outcome of recent price instability is renewed interest among consumers and policy makers in vehicle fuel economy. Motor vehicles account for about half of the nation’s petroleum usage, and about three-quarters of this fuel goes to the 220 million cars and light-duty trucks in the nation’s passenger vehicle fleet... – 2006 (pdf 927KB)
- • Energy Policy Act of 2005
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled... – Aug. 8, 2005 (pdf 3.07MB)
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