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Foreword, Peter C. Burns
Foreword, Peter C. Burns
Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies
There is still much work to do to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. Yet, we have made substantial progress in gaining a global understanding that using alternative energy sources will curb global warming and preserve Earth's resources. The hurdle of economic gain and political acceptance still remains a challenge. At the Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame (ND Energy), we engage with faculty and associated researchers on these very issues and work to advance new technologies and energy systems in the hope of addressing these challenges and helping to attain the United Nations' …
Note: The Weakest Link In Greenhouse Gas Emissions Regulation: A Comparative Study Of Methane Waste Law In The United States, Vienna Bottomley
Note: The Weakest Link In Greenhouse Gas Emissions Regulation: A Comparative Study Of Methane Waste Law In The United States, Vienna Bottomley
Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies
In this comparative study, I will analyze the various methods employed by states for monitoring and curtailing methane leakage in comparison with approaches that have been employed at the federal level. I will juxtapose the regulatory regimes of Colorado, North Dakota, New York, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and California with the Obama Administration methane leakage regulations, including the 2016 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) "methane waste rule" regulations that the Trump Administration formally rolled back in September 2018. Finally, I will consider what the failure of the Obama Administration methane leak regulations means for climate change law in the United States …
Moat Mentality: Onshore And Offshore Approaches To Wind Waking, K.K. Duvivier, Brendan T. Mooney
Moat Mentality: Onshore And Offshore Approaches To Wind Waking, K.K. Duvivier, Brendan T. Mooney
Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies
Wind energy developers are becoming increasingly aware of the damaging impact of wakes from turbines. To deal with the issue on land, many terrestrial developers have adopted a "moat mentality," creating buffer zones around their wind plants' to protect them from neighboring wind developments. While these "moats" may protect the investment of a particular wind developer, they render large areas that could be generating electricity into unproductive waste zones. US offshore wind development is in its nascence. This article will explore ways that offshore wind developers are addressing waking issues and whether they can find more collaborative solutions to maximize …
Electric Load Flexibility Analysis For The Clean Energy Transition, Peter Alstone, Mary Ann Piette
Electric Load Flexibility Analysis For The Clean Energy Transition, Peter Alstone, Mary Ann Piette
Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies
A clean energy transition on the electricity grid is underway with the addition of new renewable generation, improved capabilities for sensing and controls, and "distributed energy resources" (DER) that include efficiency, battery storage, flexible loads, and electrified heating and transportation. The complex interactions between these advances require new analytic techniques to support decisions by utilities, regulators, and enterprises developing and deploying new DER. In this paper, we describe an approach for estimating the potential of flexible loads (often also referred to as "demand response" (DR)) to contribute to the planning and operation of the grid. The analysis was developed in …
The Moral Imperative Of Green Nuclear Energy Production, Don Howard
The Moral Imperative Of Green Nuclear Energy Production, Don Howard
Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies
A climate crisis is upon us. Human-caused global warming is already changing our planet's climate in dramatic ways, and the effects are forecast to become far worse by the end of the century without rapid and radical changes to the global energy economy and the other forms of human activity that generate CO2 and other greenhouse gases, such as methane. The ten hottest years on record have all occurred since 1998, with the past five years topping the list. We already see the disappearance of the arctic ice pack, massive glacial melting in Greenland, sea-level rise, massive wildfires in northern …
Note: Fracking Fluids: Regulatory Disclosure And Trade Secret Ingredients, Alison Ibendahl
Note: Fracking Fluids: Regulatory Disclosure And Trade Secret Ingredients, Alison Ibendahl
Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies
The Note reviews current law, policy, and politics that are part of the discussion around disclosing fracking fluid trade secrets. Part I of this paper provides a background of fracking, why it is valuable, and intellectual property regimes used by owners of fracking relating to intellectual property. Part II reviews the regulatory takings doctrine, trade secret law and the interaction between them. Current disclosure laws, the policy considerations of disclosure law, and political attitudes towards fracking are discussed in Part III. This review concludes with general comments on current disclosure and the potential changes to regulations.