CETEP Research
CETEP’s research integrates natural, physical, and social science to address issues of energy consumption and conservation, nuclear energy, renewable energy, air and water pollution, ecosystem services, and climate change.
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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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New study explores energy and resource impacts of quantum computing
As quantum computing moves closer to large-scale deployment, new research is examining its future energy, water, and material demands.
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Tennessee Needs to Double Electrical System Scale to Meet Growing Demand
A new analysis of the Tennessee energy landscape highlights a series of emerging policy challenges and opportunities as the state grapples with rapid electrical demand growth.
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Policy Responses to Rare Earth Element Supply Shocks
The United States’ dependence on foreign sources for REE has been an important topic at the nexus of energy policy, economic policy, and national security for over a decade (Grasso, 2013; Gholz 2014).
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Economic Impacts of Construction and Operation of a Small Modular Reactor on Tennessee
Tennessee has strong roots in the nuclear sector, dating back to the era of the Manhattan Project.
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How Valuable are Bike Lanes?
As concerns about sustainability and transportation equity have grown, communities across the country have increasingly pushed for expanded bike infrastructure, leading to rapid development of bike lanes in recent years. As these investments continue, the need for quantitative methods to measure the value of bike lanes has become more important. Because bike lanes are public…
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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…