Resource Type
Reports & Papers
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Planning for yesterday: Why EU 2040 modelling needs updating
1. Executive summary Modelling frameworks shape what governments perceive as feasible, so the limits of any reference model matter for policy design. Research on EU model adoption finds heavy concentration around a small number of modelling frameworks, so their quality and assumptions matter and must be open to challenge.1 Planning…
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Mitigation Potential of Super-Emitting Landfills in Brazil
Methane emissions from municipal solid waste disposal present a significant methane mitigation opportunity in Brazil.
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Right on Queue: Opportunities for Interconnection Queue Reform in the United States
Executive Summary The process of connecting new power to the grid –interconnection– has thwarted bringing new generation online for years. Increasingly long queues, project withdrawals, years-long studies without firm timelines, and uncertain costs have come to define the interconnection process across the country. And most interconnection processes are divorced from…
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Next-Generation Geothermal at Scale: A Global Action Framework
In this report, Clean Air Task Force explores how governments and multilateral institutions can accelerate next-generation geothermal deployment through targeted policy action.
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Strengthening the EU Emissions Trading System
Executive Summary The European Commission’s July 2026 proposal to revise the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) initiates a key process in shaping the Union’s climate and industrial framework for the period to 2040. The review represents a critical opportunity to ensure that this foundational policy continues to deliver credible, high-integrity…
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Bridging the Valley of Death: How Test Centers Can Unlock the Geothermal Opportunity
As growing electricity demand, energy security concerns, and decarbonization goals drive the search for clean, reliable, and complementary energy sources, attention is increasingly turning to next-generation geothermal technologies such as superhot rock, enhanced geothermal systems, and advanced geothermal systems. Achieving commercial viability for such technologies requires field-scale testing using infrastructure…
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Designing for Success: How an Effective IP and Data-Sharing Framework Helps Test Centers Unlock Geothermal Innovation
Test centers are a powerful tool for accelerating energy technology innovation, like superhot rock geothermal, but they can only succeed if the test center’s intellectual property (IP) and data-sharing framework creates commercially credible conditions for participation and value creation. This brief summarizes the principal options available to test center organizers…
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Designing an Intellectual Property and Data Governance Framework for a Superhot Rock Geothermal Testbed
Superhot rock geothermal (SHR) offers a pathway to globally scalable, zero-carbon, always-available power. Achieving this potential requires credible, field-validated evidence of drilling performance, reservoir creation, and high-temperature tool reliability at conditions that individual companies cannot replicate alone. Early-stage SHR development is capital-intensive, technically complex, and commercially sensitive, which makes well-designed…
