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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invests in high-impact research, development, and demonstration to make clean energy at least as affordable and convenient as traditional forms of energy. Part of DOE''s mission is to ensure the benefits of clean energy reach all Americans, especially those historically underserved by the energy system and overburdened by pollution.
The Inflation Reduction Act includes provisions that reduce pollution, advance environmental justice, and lower energy costs. Through tax credits and other financial incentives, consumers can now pay less for more energy-efficient appliances, cleaner cars and trucks, and home upgrades.
DOE invests in projects and activities to make clean power more accessible and affordable. Check out some of the latest efforts:
Community solar provides clean power to consumers who subscribe to a nearby, shared solar energy system. It''s a low-cost option for those who can''t install solar panels on their rooftops. The Solar Technologies Office (SETO) hosted its third annualNational Community Solar Partnership Summiton January 19in San Diego, California, and virtually, with roundtable discussions about community solar markets, accessible financing, customer acquisition, and access to capital.
That day, SETO also launched theCommunity Power Accelerator, a platform that connects solar developers, investors, philanthropists, and community-based organizations to finance and deploy more community solar projects. The Accelerator will build a pipeline of credit-ready community solar projects, especially those benefiting underserved communities, connecting them with investors and philanthropic organizations to fund projects.
SETO also announced the winners of the$100,000 Sunny Awards for Equitable Community Solar prize competition, which recognizes solar projects and programs that use or develop best practices to increase equitable access to community solar for subscribers and their communities. Read more about the summit.
The Wind Energy Technologies Office recently released a $28 million funding opportunity to bring more wind power to more Americans by breaking down barriers to deployment. About $20 million will fund research projects to improve technologies that transmit large amounts of electricity from offshore wind over long distances; improve permitting processes to make distributed wind more accessible to communities where it can be equitably deployed; and to better understand the impacts of offshore wind development on communities. The remaining funding will support projects that reduce the impacts of wind technologies on wildlife.
About one-third of U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions come from the transportation sector, affecting millions of Americans, particularly those from disadvantaged communities. Transportation costs are the second-largest annual household expense in the country, and for the poorest Americans, the financial burden is disproportionately and unsustainably high.
Every American can advocate for renewable energy by becoming a Clean Energy Champion. Both small and large actions make a difference.
On January 10, the Departments of Energy, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency announced the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization, a pathway to a clean transportation sector that improves air quality, lowers transportation costs, and creates better-paying manufacturing jobs.
Furthermore, EERE''s new Clean Energy to Communities program helps communities transition to clean energy. It connects local governments, electric utilities, community-based groups, and others with national lab experts and tools to meet each community''s unique needs and interests.
Approximately one-third or more of the energy used by buildings goes to waste, costing as much as$150 billionannually. On January 18, EERE''s Building Technologies Office (BTO) launched the $22 million Buildings UP prize to increase the capacity of subnational teams to develop and implement building upgrades that create more energy-efficient buildings and clean-energy-ready homes, commercial spaces, and communities.
BTO also launched $45 million BTO Benefit 2022/23 funding opportunity to reduce the cost of building decarbonization and improve quality of life for building occupants. Selected research projects will focus on innovations in heating, ventilation, air conditioning, water heating, thermal and battery energy storage, and more.
And the $2.4 million American-Made Equitable and Affordable Solutions toElectrification Prize (EAS-Eprize) incentivizes innovators to develop and deploy techniques to make electrification cheaper and easier for contractors to implement and for homeowners to afford in diverse communities and all housing types.
While these are some of our more recent efforts to improve energy accessibility and affordability, all EERE''s work takes energy accessibility and affordability into account.
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As the eighth of the Energy Earthshots™, the Affordable Home Energy Shot was launched by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to decarbonize American homes and improve energy affordability nationwide.
Over one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to America''s 130 million homes and commercial buildings, which use 38% of the nation''s energy and 74% of its electricity for power, heating, and cooling. DOE aims to reduce on-site energy use intensity in buildings 35% by 2035 and 50% by 2050 vs. 2005.
The Affordable Home Energy Shot provides affordable, scalable solutions that can upgrade buildings of all types, reducing emissions from U.S. homes.
The climate crisis calls for a different kind of moonshot. Energy Earthshots will accelerate breakthroughs of more abundant, affordable, and reliable clean energy solutions within the decade. They will drive the major innovation breakthroughs that we know we must achieve to solve the climate crisis, reach our 2050 net-zero carbon goals, and create the jobs of the new clean energy economy. The Energy Earthshots target the remaining solution points of the most challenging technical problems across our energy economy.
On June 5, 2024, DOE virtually convened stakeholders to discuss the Affordable Home Energy Shot. The summit included sessions featuring:
Issues of affordability and fairness have moved towardsthe centre of debates about clean energy transitions in many countries. The global energy crisis revealed the vulnerabilities and risks inherent to today''s fossil fuel-based energy system, while bringing the benefits of transitions – such as greater energy security, improved air quality, reduced emissions and less exposure to volatile fuel prices – into sharper relief. But even as clean energy technologies become increasingly cost-competitive, they still require a step-change in investment to overcome the inertia that favours incumbent fuels and technologies.
As living costs have increased around the world, important questions have emerged about how to pay for clean energy transitions, as well as how the costs and benefits will be shared. Low-income households, in particular, risk being locked out of transitions if they cannot afford the upfront costs.
The IEA''s new special report, Strategies for Affordable and Fair Clean Energy Transitions, explores these challenges and how they might be addressed. Its first-of-its-kind analysis provides a comprehensive evidence base for this discussion and a pragmatic look at policy approaches that can safeguard affordability and fairness as transitions advance.
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Today, around 50% of total consumer energy expenditure is on oil products, and another 35% is on electricity. In rapid energy transitions these swap places, making the price of electricity the key measure of affordability for most consumers. By 2035, in the NZE Scenario, the share of electricity in total spending on energy rises to 50% of the total, while oil falls to 25%. The average cost per unit of electricity is slightly higher in the near term in rapid energy transition scenarios, because of the need to pay for a surge in investments, but by the 2040s electricity prices in most regions are lower than in the STEPS. Retail electricity prices are typically less volatile than oil product prices, so consumers face more predictable energy costs as they move through transitions.
Climate change is already affecting lives and livelihoods around the world, putting additional pressure on the cost of living, with poor and vulnerable communities ono the front line. This is raising awareness in many countries of the need to press ahead with action on emissions, as well as the benefits that this brings for a range of sustainable development goals. For example, the combination of increased clean electricity generation, electrified transport, phasing out of polluting fuels and progress with access to clean cooking fuels in the NZE Scenario leads to a significant improvement in health outcomes, particularly in developing economies, including 40% fewer deaths from air pollution by 2035 compared with the STEPS.
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