Bipartisan Policy Center
$490,000 over 1.5 years (www.bipartisanpolicy.org)
Washington, DC, 2007 – To support work by the National Commission on Energy Policy to determine a feasible mix of low-carbon technologies for the U.S. and recommend policy changes to facilitate their development and deployment.
Carnegie Mellon University
$800,000 over 3 years (www.cmu.edu)
Pittsburgh, PA, 2010 - To support technical research and policy analysis to pave the way for the large-scale rapid adoption of wind and solar power technologies in the United States by addressing the challenges that arise from the intermittent and variable nature of these sources of electricity.
$1,850,000 over 2.5 years (www.cmu.edu)
Pittsburgh, PA, 2007 – To enable a team of investigators at Carnegie Mellon, University of Minnesota, Vermont Law School and other institutions to work with a wide range of stakeholders and experts to design a regulatory structure for the capture, transport and deep geological sequestration of carbon dioxide in the United States.
Clean Air - Cool Planet
$66,100 over 5 months (www.cleanair-coolplanet.org)
Washington, DC, 2009 – To collaborate with E3G, a U.K. nonprofit, to develop the concept of the “Global Partnership” on clean energy technologies that was announced in July 2009 as part of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate.
Clean Air Task Force
$845,000 over 1.5 years (www.catf.us)
Boston, MA, 2007 – To create a strategy for investing in public and private research, development and demonstration of technologies that use coal for power generation without adding appreciably to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a focus on innovative gasification and post-combustion capture pathways. A sub-grant to the Climate Policy Center of Clean Air-Cool Planet will enable that organization to develop specific recommendations for implementing ARPA-E, a recently authorized federal agency aimed at accelerating transformational advances in energy technology.
Council on Foreign Relations
$350,000 over 1 year (www.cfr.org)
New York, NY, 2009 – To support research and analysis on the potential role that U.S. technology transfer strategies through bilateral agreements could play in encouraging the major emerging economies of China, India, and Brazil to adopt low-carbon technologies.
Ecologic Institute
$75,264 over 5 months (ecologic.eu/washington)
Washington, DC, 2009 – To conduct an in-depth, non-partisan study of technology transfer proposals under consideration by the U.N. technology working group in advance of the 2009 UNFCCC Conference of the Parties in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Harvard University
$600,000 over 1 year (belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu)
Cambridge, MA, 2009 – To support year three of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, which aims to identify key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international agreement.
Harvard University
$1,460,000 over 3 years (belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu)
Cambridge, MA, 2007 – To support work by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government to develop policy recommendations for an expanded U.S. federal energy-technology innovation endeavor; evaluate the U.S. federal energy research, development, and demonstration budget on an annual basis; and assess energy technology innovation activities in the private sector of the United States, as well as in the public and private sectors of China, India, Japan and Europe.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
$1,987,000 over 2 years (www.mit.edu)
Cambridge, MA, 2007 – To support a comprehensive assessment by the MIT Industrial Performance Center of the energy technology innovation system in the United States, including recommendations for improvements to federal and state research, development and demonstration policies, as well as mechanisms for early adoption and large-scale deployment of supply and demand-side innovations.
Natural Resources Defense Council
$750,000 over 1 year (www.nrdc.org)
New York, NY, 2008 - To conduct an analysis using economic models of how the value of emission allowances under a cap-and-trade program can be used to accelerate a transition to a clean-energy economy.
Peterson Institute for International Economics
$400,000 over 1 year (www.piie.com)
Washington, DC, 2009 - To collaborate with the World Resources Institute to examine mechanisms and institutions for financing the emerging global deal on climate change, including low-carbon technology transfer from developed to developing countries.