Policy Briefs
The primary purpose of the Biennial Energy Report is to inform local, state, regional, and federal energy policy development, energy planning, and energy investments, and to identify opportunities to further the state’s energy policies.
This section of the report provides insights on select emerging energy trends, opportunities, and barriers in the energy sector. These policy briefs can be read as standalone documents, and there are cues in each discussion to point the reader to information and data found in other parts of this report or others that can provide additional background and insight.
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Charting a Course for Oregon’s Energy Future
This section is part of a Policy Brief exploring the pathways available to Oregon in the decades ahead to achieve its clean energy and climate change policy objectives, and is based on a review of 20 technical studies published in recent years.
Those studies coalesce around four common strategies, or pillars of decarbonization, required to achieve these policies: energy efficiency, electrification of end-uses, clean electricity supply, and low-carbon fuels. While these pillars provide the foundation for achieving policy objectives, policymakers must consider the trade-offs among a range of specific technology pathways to transform the state’s energy systems by 2050.
Full “Charting a Course for Oregon’s Energy Future” Policy Brief
Local Energy Perspectives on Workforce and Supply Chain
While labor market disruptions due to the pandemic have largely resolved, long-term workforce issues have re-emerged: generational turnover, shortages of workers with critical skills, and workers’ challenges meeting caretaker needs and finding affordable housing.
The clean energy transition presents challenges for training and recruitment of workers with needed skills but also positions the energy industry as an attractive employer providing challenging and well-paid work at the forefront of meaningful societal change.
Pandemic-driven supply chain disruptions have pushed energy project developers to plan further ahead to procure materials and equipment and have created pressures to increase domestic manufacturing for components like electric vehicle and energy storage batteries.
Full “Local Energy Perspectives on Workforce and Supply Chain” Policy Brief
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