In an interview with the Climate Curious podcast, Bruce Nilles explains why gas stoves are a hidden health threat, why building electrification is critical to avoiding the worst consequences of climate change, and how cities are leading the way.
Clean Energy
Climate Policy Is Health Policy: Understanding Policy Effects On Health, Climate, And Jobs With A Powerful Online Modeling Tool
Modeling using the updated Energy Policy Simulator with added public health capabilities finds a set of clean energy policies that achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 would save more than 45,000 lives while preventing 1.3 million asthma attacks, more than 25,000 hospital admissions, and almost 4.5 million lost workdays every year by 2050.
United States EPS 3.0 Update Adds GDP and Jobs Impacts, Improved Public Health Metrics, and More
The United States Energy Policy Simulator 3.0 update includes the ability to model how policies will affect gross domestic product (GDP), jobs, and employee compensation, and also incorporates data on public health impacts per ton of pollutant.
Five Technological Pathways To Reach A 100 Percent Clean Electricity Future: Delivering Enormous Health And Job Benefits Without Increasing Customer Costs
Energy Innovation analysis shows that reaching 100 percent clean electricity by 2035 would avoid 16,000 premature deaths and create massive economic productivity gains – getting to 100 percent in 2035 would avoid losing about 1.7 million workdays to poor health.
Southeast U.S. Wholesale Electricity Market/RTO Online Data Explorer
This Southeast wholesale electricity market/RTO online data explorer allows anyone to view potential economic, jobs, generation, and emissions data in a dynamic format along with specific results for each of the seven states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee) included in the regional model.
90 Percent Clean Electricity By 2035 Online Data Explorer
This online data explorer allows anyone to explore how the grid’s generation mix and cumulative clean energy additions change over time in each of the country’s regional grid areas on the road to 90 percent clean energy by 2035
United States Energy Policy Simulator Updated With Ability to Reach Net-Zero Emissions, New Policies, More Fuels
The United States Energy Policy Simulator 2.0 update includes the ability to model net-zero emissions, new policies, and new fuels like hydrogen.