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Energy Explained
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Assessing the Energy Impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
This special CGEP blog series, featuring six contributions from CGEP scholars, analyzes the potential impacts of the OBBBA across a range of sectors.
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by Jack Andreasen Cavanaugh, Anne-Sophie Corbeau, Tom Moerenhout, Matt Bowen, Ashley Finan & Noah Kaufman • July 14, 2025
Podcasts
Hear in-depth conversations with the world’s top energy and climate leaders from government, business, academia, and civil society.
Climate Shocks Are Redefining Energy Security
Many parts of the US have experienced brutal, deadly heat in recent weeks—and there’s plenty of summer left. Intense rainfall, made more likely by warming, dropped more than...
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It is always more expensive to not invest in electric grids, says Columbia’s Melissa Lott
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Windham World Affairs Council presents ‘Climate Diplomacy: Are We Making Any Progress?’
BRATTLEBORO â Is the world making any progress at all in combating the climate crisis, and can we count on other countries to step up as the United States once
Michael Smolens: Clean energy politics heat up for GOP, but it’s not about climate change
Republican senators seek to reverse cuts in renewable energy tax credits that could hurt their states as global warming continues apace.
3 signs that Trump might quit the world’s oldest climate treaty
The president has been making moves that could lead to an exit from the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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The Potential Contribution of Enhanced Geothermal Systems to Future Power Supply: Roundtable Summary
Can AI Transform the Power Sector?
AI’s growing power demand has received enormous attention in recent months. In many places, the lack of power supplies is an important constraint on the growth of data centers to train and run AI models.
Insights from the US and India for Electricity Open Access in Kenya and South Africa
Kenya and South Africa have recently started moving toward an open access regime in their electricity sectors, while the US and India have been on this path for over two decades.
