Tag: Clean Air Task Force (CATF)

New York announces new energy infrastructure plan in an important move to clean electricity procurement

Stuart Mitchell

Governor Hochul announced the Energy Infrastructure Development Plan (EIDP) to support the state’s clean energy planning efforts. “Governor Hochul’s announcement is an innovative effort to establish comprehensive, centralized electricity planning for New York,” said John Carlson, Senior Northeast Regional Policy Manager at Clean Air Task Force (CATF). “The EIDP will help the state proactively ensure reliable electricity supply in a way that captures cost efficiencies and accelerates critical emission reductions. CATF provided recommendations on how to reform New York’s system earlier this year, and we look forward to working with the state on…

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New CATF report identifies how states in deregulated power markets can achieve long-term clean energy goals with state-led planning and procurement

Stuart Mitchell

A new report from Clean Air Task Force (CATF) identifies how establishing state-led planning and procurement can help state governments in deregulated electricity markets meet their power sector decarbonization goals and lays out the components needed to put that planning in action. Cutting power sector carbon emissions quickly and affordably requires the addition of long-lead-time technologies that are prone to development barriers, such as nuclear energy, geothermal, and long-duration energy storage. While market prices and clean electricity standards have done much to advance clean power deployment in deregulated electricity markets,…

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Coal power plant air pollution linked to over 6,600 premature deaths and $100 billion in damages annually, new CATF analysis finds

Stuart Mitchell

Clean Air Task Force (CATF) released an updated analysis of its Toll from Coal modeling tool, which analyzes nearly 200 coal-fired power plants that emit thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, both of which expose people across the country to harmful soot and smog. The analysis uses 2024 data and models annual attributable deaths and other health and economic risks associated with coal-fired power pollution. “Air pollution from coal-fired power plants continues to cause preventable illness and premature death across the country, placing an especially heavy burden…

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New global platform maps next-generation geothermal research capacity to drive collaboration and speed up development

Stuart Mitchell

Clean Air Task Force (CATF) today launched the Geothermal Frontier Knowledge Sharing Platform, a free tool that maps institutional research capacity and country-level geothermal profiles in one place. “Unlocking next-generation geothermal, especially higher-enthalpy resources like superhot rock geothermal, requires connecting research, funding, and industry that are currently fragmented,” said Angela Seligman, senior geoscientist at CATF. “The Geothermal Frontier knowledge sharing platform is built to help researchers find partners, help industry find testing infrastructure, and help policymakers target funding to close research gaps, all with the goal of accelerating the pace…

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Poland needs carbon capture and storage to decarbonise heavy industry, but CCS will only scale if the full system becomes bankable

Stuart Mitchell

Poland has the industrial need, geological storage potential, and early-stage projects for carbon capture and storage (CCS) – but not yet the conditions to make it scale.  A new report from Clean Air Task Force (CATF), Achieving Systemic Bankability of Carbon Capture and Storage in Poland, provides a roadmap to move from early-stage carbon capture and storage projects to large-scale facilities, drawing on the systemic bankability framework. Carbon capture and storage can help cut CO₂ emissions from industrial processes that are difficult to decarbonise fully through electrification, including those in…

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