Energy Foundation

This program grant will allow the Energy Foundation to develop strategies, make grants, and monitor and evaluate progress toward decarbonization of the U.S. economy. The Energy Foundation will regrant to a broad array of organizations, including technical and policy experts, and influential constituencies working to build support for the transition to a clean-energy economy.

This grant will support research and public education regarding carbon-capture technologies for end-of-pipe applications in power and industry, as well as atmospheric carbon dioxide removal through direct air capture and sequestration.

This grant will allow the Energy Foundation's China program to develop strategies, make grants, and monitor and evaluate progress developing media narratives and social media that support the low carbon development goals of the Chinese government. The grant will also be used to support better integration of water and energy planning. The grant will support better planning around water resources used for the production of thermal power. This could limit the expansion of coal fired power stations in regions that cannot support further development. The planning process could also promote the sustainable use of hydro pumped storage power to integrate wind and solar into the Chinese electricity grid.