EPRI’s Mansoor on Climate Math

EPRI CEO Tells Biden How to Do His Climate Math

Abby Smith, Wash. Examiner (March 27): Arshad Mansoor, CEO of the Electric Power Research Institute, is cautioning the Biden administration not to fixate on reaching carbon-free power by 2035. Instead, Mansoor is calling on the administration to broaden its view so it doesn’t compromise the end goal, reaching net-zero emissions across the economy by midcentury… This has been Mansoor’s message while in town meeting with members of the Biden administration’s climate team. One of the main questions he said he received from them is how to do the math to get down to net-zero emission.

Mansoor described decarbonizing the economy like a race among three horses, with the starting gate set at 2005 emissions levels and the finish line at net-zero. The first horse, the power sector, is already racing ahead and roughly 30% of the way to the finish line, he said. The second and third horses—the transportation and industrial sectors—haven’t really moved much past the starting gates.

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