The scope of costs in "Meeting the Challenge of Our Time: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future in the Northwest" is limited to energy system costs, which represent the annual cost of producing, distributing, and consuming energy.

A variety of new and emerging technologies will be required to meet electricity demand in the 2040-2050 timeframe. Below is a brief discussion of those that the Northwest deep decarbonization pathways study identified.

Meeting the Challenge of Our Time: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future for the Northwest explores multiple pathways for decarbonizing the region’s energy system, while addressing policy questions and potential implementation challenges in ...

The deep decarbonization framework for the Northwest deep decarbonization pathways study, Meeting the Challenge of Our Time: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future for the Northwest centers around five decarbonization strategies ...

Prior to commissioning Meeting the Challenge of Our Time, the Clean Energy Transition Institute convened a Deep Decarbonization Pathways Working Group and conducted numerous interviews with Northwest stakeholders ...

Today, the Clean Energy Transition Institute released Meeting the Challenge of Our Time: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future for the Northwest, the first economy...

BC Start-Up Aims to Produce Jet and Other Fuels from Atmospheric Carbon, Water, and Renewable Energy.

Hundreds of coal plants across the country have closed, with more shutdowns in the last two years than the previous decade.

Our family has hiked together since our 12-year-old daughter was a newborn. I remember our daughter’s first decade as a series of literal peaks and valleys, many of them in the Olympics. I can picture her chasing butterflies over Marmot Pass ...

The scientific community has understood that burning fossil fuels could cause global temperatures to rise for nearly two centuries, but it wasn't until the 1990s that efforts were made to address this phenomenon ...

Why should cities embrace a climate and clean energy agenda? Cities use 70% of global energy and therefore have a huge opportunity and responsibility to reduce their energy use and their greenhouse gas emissions. Half of the global population and ...

Despite ongoing efforts of climate-denial proponents to present global warming science as new and unsettled, we have known for two centuries that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have the potential to severely disrupt the earth’s ...