Environment

A survey conducted on behalf of the Charlottesville Division of Parks to get feedback on residents’ experience with Charlottesville’s parks, facilities, and programs and elicit feedback on future programs, parks, and athletic opportunities.

This report assesses direct air capture with carbon storage (DACCS) use relative to other carbon capture methods and examines its side effects for global energy, water, and land systems.

This report covers recent trends in Virginia’s electricity demand and then forecasts how Virginia’s electricity demand will change through 2050.

This study examines the share of soft costs in solar panel installation and offers policy recommendations for lowering the share of soft costs to make solar more competitive.

This paper evaluates the impacts and tradeoffs of three distinct types of negative emissions technologies – afforestation, BECCS and DAC – in two emissions pathways to reach 1.5°C.

This report explores four strategies for decarbonization in Virginia: efficiency in energy use, eliminating fossil fuels from electricity generation, electrifying transportation services and building energy use, and capturing and sequestering remaining CO2 emissions.

The study finds there is a need to model more kinds of negative emissions technologies (NETs) to understand how the economics of NETs will change with time and innovation and in order to consider the tradeoffs between NETs and sustainable development goals

This study uses economic experiments to look at the effects of some novel features of California's new controls on greenhouse gas emissions in terms of market liquidity, efficiency, and price variability.

This report explores how smart grid capabilities can enable integration of clean energy resources, energy storage, and demand management technologies as Virginia's policymakers and stakeholders make the transition to clean energy.