by ridgelinecenter | Aug 6, 2025
Integrating renewable energy and storage may bring substantial benefits to electricity grids, supporting reliability and other services. These benefits are demonstrated more and more frequently as renewable energy and storage installations increase around the country....
by ridgelinecenter | Jul 25, 2025
This technical primer describes how coal-fired power plants work and how they can “cofire” natural gas alongside coal, supporting the case that natural gas cofiring is a practical, low-cost tool for reducing emissions from existing coal plants. It walks...
by ridgelinecenter | May 1, 2025
This report provides review of U.S. coal plant operating costs and market dynamics using data and information from EIA, Sargent & Lundy, Lazard, and other sources. The analysis finds that coal plant economic drivers have deteriorated over the last decade due to...
by ridgelinecenter | Oct 1, 2024
This report and model explore the economic potential for decarbonizing industrial heat across the U.S. Using a state- and facility-specific model, the study conducted a calculation of economics for heat pumps, electric resistance (with and without thermal energy...
by ridgelinecenter | Aug 1, 2024
For four decades, federal courts relied on the Chevron doctrine to guide their approach in determining whether to defer to an agency’s interpretation of a statute. In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court concluded that the forty-year-old...
