Sentences with phrase «clean power plan cases»

The right - hand panel reports two alternative baselines, High Economic Growth and High Oil and Gas Resources, along with one Clean Power Plan case developed from each respective baseline.

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The most high - profile case is his ongoing lawsuit against the Clean Power Plan, Obama's most ambitious climate - related regulation.

More than a dozen documents reveal for the first time that despite political pushback against U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, key interests in the state are searching for ways to comply in case legal challenges fail.

Among these cases is a multi-state effort to overturn the Clean Power Plan requiring states to cut carbon emissions, a centerpiece of Obama's initiatives to counter climate change.

If the court makes its decision before Trump's inauguration or the new administration does not ask for the case back, then the Clean Power Plan may head to the U.S. Supreme Court if either side appeals.

At the heart of their case the Clean Power Plan's challengers have painted an enormous fiction: A picture of a stable, healthy coal - based power industry happily supplying everyone with low - cost electricity, until the big bad EPA came along and disrupted everything, forcing the industry into tumultuous change, and destroying the American energy ecoPower Plan's challengers have painted an enormous fiction: A picture of a stable, healthy coal - based power industry happily supplying everyone with low - cost electricity, until the big bad EPA came along and disrupted everything, forcing the industry into tumultuous change, and destroying the American energy ecopower industry happily supplying everyone with low - cost electricity, until the big bad EPA came along and disrupted everything, forcing the industry into tumultuous change, and destroying the American energy economy.

In the AEO2015 Reference case, which does not include the proposed Clean Power Plan rule, EIA projects power sector CO2 emissions to hover near their 2013 level, and remain below 2005 levels through Power Plan rule, EIA projects power sector CO2 emissions to hover near their 2013 level, and remain below 2005 levels through power sector CO2 emissions to hover near their 2013 level, and remain below 2005 levels through 2040.

So on the other side, a broad array of states, environmental and health groups (including NRDC), forward - looking power companies, and clean energy and high - tech firms have intervened in the case to help the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice defend the Plan.

And while recent studies from entities such as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation and the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration have shown that the Clean Power Plan is still needed to drive the development of additional clean energy and energy efficiency resources in order to achieve significant nationwide CO2 reductions, it appears that the costs of compliance compared to a business - as - usual case will continue to fall — and may even be offset by the significant benefits the Clean Power Plan can oClean Power Plan is still needed to drive the development of additional clean energy and energy efficiency resources in order to achieve significant nationwide CO2 reductions, it appears that the costs of compliance compared to a business - as - usual case will continue to fall — and may even be offset by the significant benefits the Clean Power Plan can oclean energy and energy efficiency resources in order to achieve significant nationwide CO2 reductions, it appears that the costs of compliance compared to a business - as - usual case will continue to fall — and may even be offset by the significant benefits the Clean Power Plan can oClean Power Plan can offer.

EIA's Analysis of the Impacts of the Clean Power Plan contains additional information and a complete range of sensitivity cases.

In the AEO2015 Reference case, which reflects current laws and regulations — but not pending rules, such as the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan — this percentage is projected to increase to 18 % by 2040.

With continued Clean Power Plan emissions reduction requirements through 2040 under the Policy Extension Case (CPPEXT), the shift to higher natural gas - fired generation is maintained through 2030 - 35 (Figure 5 and Table 3).

The CPPHEG case models the proposed Clean Power Plan using the AEO2015 High Economic Growth case as the baseline.

However, in the spirit of Chairman Smith's request, this report analyzes the Clean Power Plan in the context of the AEO2015 High Economic Growth and High Oil and Gas Resource cases as well as the Reference case in order to examine indicators of the proposed rule's impacts on energy markets under varying assumptions regarding economic growth, electricity demand, and fuel prices.

While there are significant differences in projected natural gas prices across baselines, with persistently lower prices in the High Oil and Gas Resource case, the Clean Power plan itself does not significantly move natural gas prices with the exception of an initial impact expected during the first 2 - 3 years after the start of implementation.

In keeping with the requirement that EIA remain policy - neutral, the Reference case does not include proposed regulations such as the Clean Power Plan.

Each baseline and its associated policy case in the right - hand panel use the same color (darker for the former, lighter for the latter) to help readers identify which lines should be compared to identify changes resulting from the Clean Power Plan.

The starting point for EIA's analysis of the Clean Power Plan is the Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) Reference case rather than earlier AEO projections that were developed using versions of EIA's National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) that lack the model structure needed to analyze key features of the Clean Power Plan proposal.

Coal production and minemouth steam coal prices are lower compared with the AEO2015 Reference case in the early years following Clean Power Plan implementation (Figures 9 and 10, and Tables 3 and 4).

For this report, EIA constructed cases in NEMS that represent compliance with the proposed Clean Power Plan, including:

As has been the case with numerous other analyses, they found energy efficiency to be a core strategy for reducing the total costs of Clean Power Plan (CPP) compliance.

A case in point is the Clean Power Plan, the crown jewel of the lot, which would require states to come up with plans to reduce the CO2 emissions from their electric power plPower Plan, the crown jewel of the lot, which would require states to come up with plans to reduce the CO2 emissions from their electric power plpower plants.

Achieving the Clean Path Case's full range of benefits will require policy makers and regulators to work together with utilities, generators, advocates, regional transmission organizations, and other stakeholders to develop a Clean Power Plan (CPP) compliance plan that generates widespread benefits for IllinPlan (CPP) compliance plan that generates widespread benefits for Illinplan that generates widespread benefits for Illinois.

Comparison of electric - sector CO2 emission projections through 2040 in the AEO 2016 Reference case (AEO2016 Ref) to the AEO 2015 Reference case (AEO2015) and the AEO 2016 case without the Clean Power plan (AEO2016 NoCPP)

In addition to the version of the Clean Power Plan modeled in the AEO 2016 Reference case, which examines mass - based compliance over new and existing sources with limited regional trading and allowance revenues rebated to ratepayers, EIA also modeled a number of sensitivities.

Although energy efficiency can be used to displace generation and reduce emissions, the AEO 2016 Reference case models achieving Clean Power Plan compliance with only a 3 percent decrease in sales compared to the future with no Clean Power Plan (see Figure 2).

The full DC Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the challenge to President Obama's Clean Power Plan in September, instead of a three - judge panel hearing the case in June, the court announced last week.

However, the AEO 2016 Reference case (inclusive of the Clean Power Plan) features electricity prices 3 percent below the electricity prices forecasted just last year in the AEO 2015 Reference case.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its analysis of EPA's Clean Power Plan had to consider new nuclear capacity as a separate case analysis because construction of new nuclear capacity other than what is currently under construction or at risk for retirement is not a major compliance option based on EPA's proposed rule despite nuclear power's zero carbon dioxide emissPower Plan had to consider new nuclear capacity as a separate case analysis because construction of new nuclear capacity other than what is currently under construction or at risk for retirement is not a major compliance option based on EPA's proposed rule despite nuclear power's zero carbon dioxide emisspower's zero carbon dioxide emissions.

The AEO 2016 Reference case projects that the Clean Power Plan will raise electricity prices by just 3 percent compared to a future with no Clean Power Plan.

That said, in either case, the EPA Clean Power Plan will result in much higher electricity prices for American consumers and gain less than a.02 degree Centigrade benefit in temperature based on EPA models.

UPDATE (February 10, 2016): On February 9, the Supreme Court placed a hold on the Clean Power Plan, which will stay in place until a lower court rules on the merits and the Supreme Court either refuses to hear the case or rules on the merits.

While the AEO 2017 Reference case continues to model the Clean Power Plan as law, other changes to input assumptions have resulted in strikingly different projections, relative to AEO 2016.

In the case of the EPA Clean Power Plan, states that comply with the rule by investing in energy efficiency will find the opposite is likely to be true: their businesses will be more productive and their economies will grow.

Achieving the Clean Path Case's full range of benefits will require policy makers and regulators to work together with utilities, generators, advocates, regional transmission organizations, and other stakeholders to develop a Clean Power Plan (CPP) compliance plan that generates widespread benefits for all Pennsylvania residePlan (CPP) compliance plan that generates widespread benefits for all Pennsylvania resideplan that generates widespread benefits for all Pennsylvania residents.

So, in the case of the United States, for example, those policies that will enable the country to achieve its submitted INDC are: the Clean Power Plan (which will accelerate the shift in many states from coal to natural gas for electricity generation, as well as provide incentives in some states for renewable electricity generation); CAFE (motor vehicle fuel efficiency) standards increasing over time (as already enacted by Congress); appliance efficiency standards moving up over time (as also already enacted by Congress); California's very aggressive climate policy (AB - 32); and the northeast states» Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.