2013-05-03T17:17:28Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/s/samaras_constantine.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110093.html 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authors perform a technical and economic assessment and estimate the economic costs and net GHG reductions from U.S renewable electricity mandates. GHG emissions reductions from such policies could be as much as 670 million metric tons per year. Depending on technological development, economic costs are $13-$45 billion per year. Lower costs depend on favorable technological progress.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100005.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authors explore the limits of current knowledge about grid electricity in LCA and carbon footprinting for the U.S. electrical grid, and show that differences in standards, protocols, and reporting organizations can lead to important differences in estimates of CO2, SO2, and NOx emissions factors.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120044.html 2012-01-01T12:00:00Z 2012-01-01T12:00:00Z

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) is an important social goal to mitigate climate change. A common mitigation paradigm is to consider strategy "wedges" that can be applied to different activities to achieve desired GHG reductions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR169.html 2013-03-05T09:30:00Z 2013-03-05T09:30:00Z

The Department of Defense constructs, operates, and maintains numerous facilities. This report shares RAND's description and assessment of the process used to obtain life-cycle cost-effective facilities and how it affects construction options.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50165.html 2012-01-01T12:00:00Z 2012-01-01T12:00:00Z

Federal subsidies and policies to encourage plug-in vehicle adoption would produce more benefits at lower cost by targeting the purchase of vehicles with small battery packs.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2013/02/20/RAND1.html 2013-02-22T17:22:00Z 2013-02-22T17:22:00Z

Instead of setting an arbitrary Production Tax Credit value, we could provide a tax credit based on the social value of clean electricity generation, writes Constantine Samaras.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100219.html 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z

To reduce air emission and oil dependency impacts from passenger vehicles, strategies to promote adoption of hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles with small battery packs offer more social benefits per dollar spent.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR162.html 2013-02-20T09:45:00Z 2013-02-20T09:45:00Z

Energy supplies to Department of Defense (DoD) installations are vulnerable to disruptions from natural hazards and attacks. This paper presents a framework to evaluate choices among strategies to increase installation energy resiliency.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR984.html 2011-07-29T08:45:00Z 2011-07-29T08:45:00Z

Biomass is an increasingly important source of electricity, heat, and liquid fuel. This report examines changes to power plants and their operations, costs of cofiring biomass, and logistical issues associated with delivering biomass to the plant.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20101303.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This report is intended to complement extensive documentation contained in the model itself. CUBE 1.0, available for download on the NETL website, determines the life cycle GHG emissions of biomass feedstocks from planting the biomass to delivery to the bioenergy plant gate ("farm-to-gate").

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100113.html 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

This paper provides a framework for incorporating uncertainty analysis specifically into estimates of the life cycle GHG emissions from the production of biomass.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1106.html 2011-09-22T10:00:00Z 2011-09-22T10:00:00Z

The Qatar Foundation is establishing a national research institute to conduct energy, environment, and water research. This book recommends research priorities for the institute and reports on a survey of related research institutions in the region.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1147.html 2011-10-27T10:30:00Z 2011-10-27T10:30:00Z

This monograph reviews interviews with stakeholders in the U.S. domestic coal-based electricity generation industry and data describing key elements of industry capability and validation or verification of concerns about it.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50160.html 2013-01-01T12:00:00Z 2013-01-01T12:00:00Z

Producing natural gas from shale generates air pollutant emissions. RAND researchers provided a first-order estimate of air emissions, and the monetary value of the associated damages, from the extraction of shale gas in Pennsylvania.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1300.html 2013-03-18T08:00:00Z 2013-03-18T08:00:00Z

If policies aimed at large reductions of carbon dioxide emissions are enacted, more carbon capture and storage will be needed. RAND researchers explored the ability of the industrial base to support the expansion of carbon storage.