Executive Branch

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Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear

Pathway: Promoting Decarbonization through R&D

Seeks to provide the nuclear community with access to the technical, regulatory, and financial support necessary to move innovative nuclear energy technologies toward commercialization.

DOE Advanced Battery R&D Awards

Pathway: Promoting Decarbonization through R&D

Including a collective $5.7M award to Battery500, $19M in awards for twelve new cost-shared research projects focused on batteries and vehicle electrification technologies, and $59 million for 43 projects for advanced vehicle technologies research.

Advanced Technologies Vehicle Manufacturing Program

Pathway: Promoting Decarbonization through R&D

Provides direct loans to automotive or component manufacturers for reequipping, expanding, or establishing manufacturing facilities in the U.S. that produce fuel-efficient advanced technology vehicles or qualifying components.

DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office

Pathway: Promoting Decarbonization through R&D

Supports research in a variety of fields relating to electric and hybrid vehicles, including applied battery research.

Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E)

Pathway: Promoting Decarbonization through R&D

Established in 2007 to bring new technologies from laboratory to market, ARPA-E has distributed $1.5 billion in R&D funding to more than 580 projects.

SunShot Initiative

Pathway: Promoting Decarbonization through R&D

The DOE’s SunShot Initiative was launched in 2011 with the goal of reducing the cost of solar energy 75% by 2020, which target was met three years early. The program has set a 2030 goal to halve that target again.

EIA carbon tax modeling

Pathway: Proposed Carbon Pricing Schemes (US)

Modeled a carbon price of $25 per metric ton, increasing 5% per year.

IWG Social Cost of Carbon

Pathway: Proposed Carbon Pricing Schemes (US)

The Interagency Working Group Social Cost of Carbon’s 2013 update gave four updated SCC estimates for 2020 at $12, $43, $64, and $128 (2007$) based on different integrated assessment models.

Report: Markets, Externalities, and the Federal Power Act

Pathway: Proposed Carbon Pricing Schemes (US)

NYU’s Environmental Law Journal published a 2019 article on FERC’s authority to price carbon dioxide emissions.

Berkeley report, Addressing Climate Change Without Legislation

Pathway: Proposed Carbon Pricing Schemes (US)

Proposes that FERC can influence the cost-effectiveness of new generation and new infrastructure by putting a price on emissions.