Energy planning

Energy planning may be carried out with input from different stakeholders drawn from government agencies, local utilities, academia and other interest groups.

A forking in methods is whether the planner considers the possibility of influencing the consumption (demand) for energy.

[8] 2022 administration calls for, "Plan for Climate Change and Environmental Justice", which aims to reach 100% carbon-free power generation by 2035 and net-zero emissions by 2050 in the USA.

It is based on a structured decision making process based on six key steps, namely: Designing for implementation is often carried out using "Logical Framework Analysis" which interrogates a proposed project and checks that it is completely logical, that it has no fatal errors and that appropriate contingency arrangements have been put in place to ensure that the complete project will not fail if a particular strand of the project fails.

For the electrification of our machines to help the efforts to decarbonize, more renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar would have to be built.

[16] The time it takes for the radioactive waste to decay depends on the length of the substance's half-life.

Currently, the United States does not have a permanent disposal facility for high-level nuclear waste.

A considerable section of the public is concerned about the health and environmental impacts of a nuclear power plant melting down, believing that the risk is not worth the reward.

Though there is a portion of the population that believes expanding nuclear energy is necessary and that the threats of climate change far outweigh the possibility of a meltdown, especially considering the advancements in technology that have been made within recent decades.

[17] The majority of that energy goes toward producing electricity and heat (31.0%), the next largest contributor is agriculture (11%), followed by transportation (15%), forestry (6%) and manufacturing (12%).

[18] There are multiple different molecular compounds that fall under the classification of green house gases including, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

Carbon dioxide is the largest emitted greenhouse gas, making up 76% of global emission.

Many of the future changes and solutions depend on the global effort to move away from coal and begin making energy efficient technology and continue to electrify the world.