The EFI Foundation advances innovative, evidence-based solutions to complex energy challenges—combining rigorous analysis with a pragmatic approach to bridge the gap toward a low-carbon future. All of our legacy Energy Futures Initiative work can be found below alongside current EFIF publications.
Commissioned by the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI) and produced by the University of Maryland Global Sustainability Initiative, Regional Clean Energy Innovation: Regional Factors for Accelerating the Development and…
The Energy Futures Initiative has completed multiple reports on pathways for carbon capture, making this fact sheet on carbon capture essential to navigating the field!
The Energy Futures Initiative, the Washington-based nonprofit established by former Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz, has conducted a 12-month study on the design of a…
Clearing the Air: A Federal RD&D Initiative and Management Plan for Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies (September 2019) outlines a 10-year, $10.7 billion research, development, and demonstration (RD&D)…
The Green Real Deal: A Framework for Achieving a Deeply Decarbonized Economy (August 2019) proposes key principles and realistic strategies for achieving deep decarbonization of energy and associated…
Optionality, Flexibility & Innovation: Pathways for Deep Decarbonization in California (May 2019) presents the pathways and technology options that California policymakers must consider as the state plans…
EFI Distinguished Associate David Foster testified before the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis on April 30, 2019. The Committee, chaired by Representative Kathy…
Ernest J. Moniz, MIT professor emeritus, nuclear physicist, and former United States Secretary of Energy and Founder of the Energy Futures Initiative, is the recipient…
Yesterday, Moniz introduced the EFI Report Optionality, Flexibility & Innovation: Pathways for Deep Decarbonization in California at the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy. His introduction…
Washington, D.C.– A new report from the Bipartisan Policy Center and Energy Futures Initiative finds that historical federal investments in carbon removal technologies fall far short of the…
Carbon Removal: Comparing Historical Federal Research Investments with the National Academies’ Recommended Future Funding Levels (April 2019) is a report produced jointly by the Energy…
The 2019 U.S. Energy & Employment Report (USEER) (March 2019) was the fourth installment of the survey and the second report co-produced by the Energy…
