Reply to ‘A commentary on “US power sector carbon capture and storage under the Inflation Reduction Act could be costly with limited or negative abatement potential”’

Emily Grubert (University of Notre Dame) and Frances Sawyer (Pleiades Strategy)
Environmental Research Letters, December 2023

Following the publication of Grubert and Sawyer's 2023 analysis modeling the cost and emissions impact of carbon capture retrofits under the Inflation Reduction Act's 45Q tax credit, other researchers published a commentary responding to the paper's methodology and conclusions. In this peer-reviewed reply, Pleiades Strategy founder Frances Sawyer and co-author Emily Grubert respond directly to that critique, defending and clarifying the original analysis in the same academic venue.