Accelerating SMR deployment through shared investment
The clean energy transition faces a critical challenge: meeting the rising global energy demand while simultaneously reducing global CO2 emissions and ensuring broad affordability. While…
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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.
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New guidebook helps demystify clean energy binding agreements
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Hydrogen Hubs (H2Hubs) program allocated unprecedented investment in clean hydrogen projects across seven regional hubs. Each hub is expected…
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Deployment of low-carbon energy technologies is focus at COP29, but financing remains a challenge
Hailed as the “finance COP,” bankability and finance of low-carbon energy technologies were at the core of many engagements throughout the 29th Conference of the…
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Innovation at the Horizon: Accelerating Innovation of Emerging Hybrid CDR Technologies
Innovation at the Horizon: Accelerating Innovation of Emerging Hybrid CDR Technologies (November 2024) provides a snapshot of current hybrid carbon dioxide removal (CDR) activities across…
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Making Small Modular Reactors Bankable Investments
Making Small Modular Reactors Bankable Investments (November 2024), from the EFI Foundation’s (EFIF’s) Energy Futures Finance Forum (EF3), provides actionable policy recommendations to address barriers…
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Clean energy transition spurs job growth in the Midwest
The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) set aside the most substantial provisions for clean energy ever passed into U.S. law. These have been delivered through…
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Navigating the Negotiation: A Community Guide to Binding Agreements in Clean Energy
Navigating the Negotiation: A Community Guide to Binding Agreements in Clean Energy (October 2024) presents results of a study that aims to help community members…
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Moniz highlights nuclear energy and hydrogen in the clean energy transition
In an interview for the second season of the Brookings Institution’s Climate Sense podcast, EFI Foundation (EFIF) CEO Ernest J. Moniz spoke with host Samantha…
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Major philanthropic gift establishes Nuclear Scaling Initiative, catalyzing effort to increase nuclear energy deployment 10x by the 2030s
NEW YORK – A major new gift from Joe Gebbia and Isabelle Boemeke to Clean Air Task Force (CATF), the EFI Foundation (EFIF), and the…
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A Narrative on Learning and Monte Carlo Simulation to Confirm the Likelihood of a Cost-Effective Transition to Decarbonized Ethanol Resources
This document explores the application of Bayesian inference and Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and likelihood of decarbonizing ethanol. It highlights the effects…
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A Strategic Roadmap for Decarbonizing the U.S. Ethanol Industry
A roadmap to further decarbonize the U.S. ethanol industry, including a portfolio of actions that can help the industry reach net-zero emissions and beyond.
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Washington Energy Policy Expert Karen Wayland Named to EFI Foundation Board of Independent Directors
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 7, 2024): The EFI Foundation (EFIF) is proud to announce the appointment of Karen Wayland to the EFIF Board of Independent Directors. …
