CETEP Databases
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Policies for Promoting Low-Emission Vehicles and Fuels: Lessons from Recent Analyses
This report reviews recent studies of a wide range of policies to promote alternative fuels and vehicles to extract insights about their impacts and effectiveness.
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How Valuable are Bike Lanes?
This study examines how proximity to the nearest bike lane influences home prices, using that relationship to estimate the value of three bike lanes in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Economic Potential of the Tennessee RiverLine Water Trail
In 2016, University of Tennessee students in a landscape architecture course dreamed up a trail system that could connect residents to the region’s natural resources and connect communities to one another. Today, with guidance from faculty and support from our partners, that vision has turned into the Tennessee RiverLine—a 652-mile continuous system of water and…
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How Better Accounting Can More Cheaply Reduce Carbon Emissions
Much of corporate renewable energy carbon accounting today relies on an analytical technique that the Greenhouse Gas Protocol identifies as a significant simplifying assumption. However, a simple example demonstrates that this widely used accounting practice can mismeasure carbon savings by as much as 45 percent. Recent advances in estimating the emissions avoided through renewable energy…
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An Energy Scorecard for the American States
The impact of climate change continues unabated, and devastation due to drought, fires, flooding, and severe weather is becoming more pronounced. Crafting policy to combat the effect of climate change remains a challenge due to its connections with energy markets and policy. Addressing this public policy challenge requires an understanding of relationships between energy and…