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A Cost Benefit Analysis of Electrification of the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority Bus Fleet
(2020-12)Cities and municipalities all over the world are currently considering the decarbonization potential of electrifying part or all of their public bus fleet. Bus fleets, with their planned routes, mileage, and life spans may ... -
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the US Shale Industry: An (Expert) Review
(2020-12)The US shale industry turned the world-wide energy landscape upside down in less than a decade and put the US (back) atop the global energy hierarchy. At the beginning of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic shocked the global ... -
How to Leverage Corporate Sustainability Ratings to Drive Reductions in Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Policy Proposal for the Next U.S. Administration
(2020-12)For decades oil and gas corporations have been major contributors to global warming and its harmful effects on the environment and economy. Yet global efforts to hold these and other carbon-intensive companies accountable ... -
Constructing Resilient Wetlands at Poplar Island: A Comparative Case Study
(2020-12)Sea level rise has been impacting coastal wetlands along the Chesapeake Bay since the last century. This report looks to evaluate the key lessons learned at Poplar Island in order to develop a plan for Eastern Neck Island’s ... -
Identifying Factors that Affect Political Feasibility of Climate and Energy-Related Policies
(2020-12)Climate change is an urgent problem. Due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, the average planet is warming at an alarming rate, causing large-scale changes to ecosystems humans depend on. Additionally, since what ... -
The Challenge to Develop the Lithium Industry in the World's Biggest Lithium Deposit - A Roadmap for the Triangle Countries
(2020-12)This paper addresses the challenge that the lithium triangle countries have to add value to the lithium chain. Despite having the largest global lithium reserves and medium levels of development, Chile, Argentina and Bolivia ... -
Risk Management for the Impacts of Coronal Mass Ejections, Electromagnetic Pulse Threats and Climate-Related Weather Events on Power Cables Supporting the Potential of Offshore Wind Energy Off of the Northern East Coast of the United States
(2020-12)The offshore wind industry is in the midst of its technology breakthrough phase, as humankind has experienced recently in other technology breakthroughs such as the internet and the smart phone. Wind turbine capability ... -
Analysis and Comparison of the Scope, Impacts, and Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Climate Change as Major Crises in the United States
(2020-12)The COVID-19 pandemic has become the global crisis of 2020 and the focal point of much public attention. Climate change is the ongoing crisis of the industrial and post-industrial ages. The United States and the rest of ... -
Adaptive Renewables: Energy at the Mitigation-Adaptation Nexus
(2020-12)As the clean energy transition accelerates, the challenges of climate impacts are being seen worldwide. Because energy is a leading source of carbon emissions, renewable power production offers a tremendous opportunity ... -
Assessment of the Development of an Offshore Wind Energy Project in the Archipelago of San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina from a Cost-Efficiency Perspective
(2020-12)This report could have not been done without the knowledge gathered during the master’s degree in Energy Policy and Climate. In particular, this work leverages the knowledge gathered on courses related to wind energy policy, ... -
How to Get a Robust Green New Deal through Congress: Determining the Philosophy, the Cost, and the Subsequent Political Approach
(2020-12)The United States has not engaged in rapidly decarbonizing its economy for two reasons: because there are unpleasant nuances, and the politics are complicated. The first sector of the economy which is on track to be fully ... -
Analyzing the Effects of COVID-19 in Fairfax County Parks and on Climate Change Communication
(2020-12)In 2019, a zoonotic disease jumped from animals to human and spread rapidly through respiratory droplets. It came to be known as COVID-19. The pandemic led to closures of universities, movie theaters, fitness centers, and ... -
Developing a Heat-Related Social Vulnerability Index for Correctional Facilities
(2020-12)Climate change, driven by increasing greenhouse gas emissions, has caused and will continue to cause increasing temperatures across the United States (Hayhoe et al. 2018). Extreme heat contributes to a variety of health ... -
Strategies for Improving Thermal and Electric Energy Efficiency in the Vietnamese Cement Industry
(2020-05)Cement production is one of the main engines for economic growth in Vietnam. Over the past few years, Vietnam has emerged from being an importer of cement to one of the top ten cement producers in the world. In 2018, the ... -
Challenges and Opportunities for Electric Vehicle Changing in Multifamily Properties
(2020-05)The transportation sector is now the largest emitter of CO2 due to the use of gasoline in cars and trucks. With today’s technology, electric cars provide a clear path forward to ending our reliance of fossil fuels to drive ... -
Exploring New York City's Path to Decarbonization
(2020-05)The June 2019 passage of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) in New York state set ambitious carbon reduction goals over the 2030-2050 time horizon. Removal of carbon from the electric system and ... -
The Relationship Between Low Carbon Policy and Low Carbon Employee Behavior
(2020-05)Many businesses are choosing to go green with the hope of instilling social responsibility within the culture of their employees. Studies have shown various benefits for both the employee and the organization implementing ... -
Analyzing the Potential for Interstate Collaboration to Catalyze the Offshore Wind Industry in the U.S. Southeast
(2020-05)The U.S. Southeastern states of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina possess the resource potential, port infrastructure, and interest from developers necessary to become a hotbed for offshore wind development ... -
Santa Rosa City Schools Sustainability Management Plan
(2020-05)The Santa Rosa City Schools Sustainability Management Plan intends to identify areas for improvement within school district operations through a utility management approach. This is accomplished by identifying ways in which ... -
Cost Recovery for Multiple Use Storage Resources
(2020-05)My goal at the outset of this Capstone Project was to determine how electric storage resources (“ESRs”) can be compensated for the services they can provide and whether ESRs can actually stack the value they offer in ...
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