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Carbon emissions targets: Impact on US power market

Nature Energy volume 1, Article number: 16187 (2016) Cite this article

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The US Clean Power Plan establishes detailed CO2 emissions reductions targets at state level with a flexible framework for implementation. This flexibility is intended to spur innovation and economic efficiency, but a study finds that it creates vast uncertainties around both the implementation of the rule and subsequent impacts.

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Figure 1: US system-wide CO2 emissions and Clean Power Plan (CPP) projections.

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Victor, N. Carbon emissions targets: Impact on US power market. Nat Energy 1, 16187 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nenergy.2016.187

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