The Great Plains Institute is a proud partner in a new initiative, the Sustainable Growth Coalition, a partnership of more than 25 businesses and organizations harnessing their expertise to advance the next frontier of corporate sustainability – the circular economy. Continue reading »
Help Us Celebrate the Better Energy Community This Fall!
July 20, 2016 in News & Press Author: Amanda Dutcher
We are excited to host our second annual Energy Innovation Celebration on September 29, 2016, at the beautiful Nicollet Island Pavilion in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Continue reading »
Press Release: Diverse Coalition Applauds Introduction of Carbon Capture Incentive Legislation in the U.S. Senate
July 13, 2016 in News & Press
The National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative (NEORI) and Coal Utilization Research Council (CURC) applaud U.S. Senators Heidi Heitkamp and Sheldon Whitehouse and co-sponsoring Senators Jon Tester, Brian Schatz, Cory Booker, and Tim Kaine for today’s introduction of the Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Act, which aims to accelerate commercial deployment of technologies to capture carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and industrial facilities for enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) and other forms of geologic storage or for conversion to useful products. Continue reading »
The Climate Corner: Why the Clean Energy Transition Seems Both Impossible and Inevitable
June 17, 2016 in News & Press Author: Rolf Nordstrom
*This originally appeared in the Door County Peninsula Post here*
Why does a clean energy transition seem impossible? Let’s start with the basics of the climate change problem that 97% of climate scientists say, categorically, we need to fix: Continue reading »
When I applied to the Capitol Pathways Program, I was looking for an opportunity to experience public policy and learn if it was a good career choice for me. I was given the opportunity to select a specific sector in the application process; I chose sustainability and environmental issues as a top choice. Capitol Pathways program organizers matched me with the Great Plains Institute and I was excited to begin my journey in this inaugural program. Continue reading »
MINNEAPOLIS – Ulteig President and CEO Douglas Jaeger has joined the Great Plains Institute (GPI) board of directors. Continue reading »
Partnering with Argonne National Lab on Video Tutorials
May 15, 2016 in News & Press Author: Dane McFarlane
As part of the Great Plains Institute’s role as a nonpartisan facilitator of consensus-based agreements, we often benefit from sharing and utilizing impartial scientific data and technical reports to inform the policymaking process.
WASHINGTON, April 22, 2016 — Technological innovation will be critical in meeting the goal the world’s nations set out in the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming. The world derives 80 percent of its energy from coal, oil, and natural gas. Global use of fossil fuels is expected to continue for decades to come, even with the dramatic changes in energy production anticipated under the Paris Agreement. Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technology can capture and safely store CO2 emissions from power plants and industrial facilities. In fact, the United Nations IPCC and International Energy Agency have concluded that CCUS is likely essential to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius. Continue reading »
As an organization whose tagline is “Better Energy, Better World,” we’re excited this Earth Day to share with you the progress we’re making together with our partners from the local to the national level. Continue reading »
Q&A on Performance-Based Regulation with Energy Innovation’s Sonia Aggarwal
March 30, 2016 in News & Press Author: Jennifer Christensen
In Minnesota, GPI convenes a stakeholder effort called the e21 Initiative that recommends, in part, shifting toward a more performance-based regulatory approach to determine how electric utilities in the state are compensated.
Recently, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission discussed performance-based regulation (commonly referred to as PBR) with expert Sonia Aggarwal, Director of Strategy at Energy Innovation. Ms. Aggarwal and the commissioners had an interesting discussion (see summary here) that raised key issues about how a PBR approach would work and its implications. Continue reading »
