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LCRI Research Vision Executive Summary: LCRI Research Vision: An Outline for Research, Development, and Demonstration Activities to Enable Economy-Wide Decarbonization by Midcentury – Version 2.0.0

The Low-Carbon Resources Initiative (LCRI) Research Vision provides an outline for research, development, and demonstration activities to enable economy-wide decarbonization by midcentury.

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and GTI Energy are together addressing the need to accelerate development and demonstration of low-carbon energy carriers and fuels and the cross-cutting technologies needed to support their production, transport, storage, and utilization. The Research Vision presents the motivation for the LCRI, research questions that address the initiative’s focus areas, and preliminary research plans aimed at advancing critical technologies in support of the LCRI’s objectives.

The LCRI is organized by Technical Subcommittees that focus on the value chain of alternative energy carriers/fuels applied across the economy. This document outlines the potential roles of alternative energy carriers in supporting a low-carbon future and provides details on the preliminary research plans to be executed through the Technical Subcommittees.

The details (technologies, activities, and prioritization, among others) provided in this document are subject to change over the course of the initiative as new findings, perspectives, and knowledge are incorporated into the overall research vision.

This report represents version 2.0.0 of the LCRI Research Vision, after conducting an annual review in Spring 2022. A summary of changes from previous versions is provided here:
https://lcri-vision.epri.com/versions.html

Research Vision Website
A web-based interactive version of the research vision is available. To read the executive summary and the main report online, please visit this public website:
https://lcri-vision.epri.com

Main Report Download
The main report is available to download as a separate document (Product ID 3002020677):
https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002020677

Translations

The research vision has been translated into these languages:

Korean

Spanish

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Keywords

Ammonia Hydrogen Synthetic Fuels Emissions Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Biofuels Decarbonization Net Zero Low-carbon fuels Alternative Energy Carriers