Conventional Energy

Climate change goals and oil production are clashing in the U.S.

National Geographic    ·    July 19, 2021

Sergey Paltsev, deputy director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, emphasizes the importance of reaching net-zero emissions as fast as possible. “By pushing natural gas—which is indeed cleaner than coal, but it’s still a fossil fuel that releases a lot of CO2 and more importantly, a lot of methane—we are actually hurting renewables,” says Paltsev.

Transmission upgrades could hold the key to New England clean energy goals

Vermont Public Radio    ·    April 21, 2021

Christopher Knittel (Sloan School of Management) discusses the challenges of gaining approval for new cross-state or cross-country transmission lines, which are essential to assisting New England in reaching its clean energy goals.