Axios features Roosevelt Project rollout webinar
In a post on Axios, Amy Harder recaps some highlights from her discussion with MIT's Ernest Moniz during the Roosevelt Project webinar.
Understanding the Economic and Environmental Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The next webinar in the CEEPR Fall 2020 series takes place on Thursday September 24, and brings together Professor Jing Li and Professor Christopher Knittel - the authors of two CEEPR working papers evaluating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through use of empirical data.
Quantifying the Distributional Impacts of Rooftop Solar Adoption
A new CEEPR Working Paper shows that residential rooftop solar PV adoption under typical electricity tariffs that inefficiently recover residual costs through volumetric charges creates substantial income distributional effects, specifically increasing average expenditures substantially for non-adopters, which tend to be predominantly lower income customers.
2020 Fall Webinar Series
This series of webinars will take place from August 27 through December 10 and will cover topics including challenges in electricity markets with high shares of renewables, the economic and environmental impacts of COVID-19, transportation emissions policy, the role of hydrogen in the energy sector, and more. Additional information may be found here as it is updated throughout the Fall semester.
State Ownership and Technology Adoption
Many policymakers aim to redirect electric utilities' power plant investments toward renewables. In much of Europe, state-owned and private utilities co-exist in a liberalized market environment, but the impact of ownership on the adoption of renewables is unclear. By investigating the investments of incumbent utilities in the EU during 2005-2016, the authors study the mechanisms by which ownership made a difference.
A Multi-control Climate Policy Process for a Designated Decision Maker
Researchers present an idealized model of optimally-controlled climate change, showing that the four methods of controlling climate damage– mitigation, carbon dioxide removal, adaptation, and solar radiation modification– are not interchangeable, as they enter at different stages of the causal chain that connects GHG emissions to damages.
In The News
Sep 10, 2020
The Roosevelt Project Working Papers Now Available
The first nine Working Papers have been released under the Roosevelt Project, an initiative examining the transitional challenges associated with progress toward a deeply decarbonized U.S. economy....
Jul 17, 2020
Abatement Strategies and the Cost of Environmental Regulation
Emission standards are one of the primary policy tools used to reduce CO2 emissions in the passenger vehicle market. This Working Paper studies the 2015 introduction of an EU-wide emission standard...
Jul 13, 2020
Evolving Bidding Formats & Pricing Schemes in US and Europe Day-Ahead Electricity Markets
The increasing penetration of renewable energy as well as storage resources requires adapting bidding formats and pricing schemes. Learning from best practices from both sides of the Atlantic, the...
Jul 1, 2020
The Short-run and Long-run Effects of Covid-19 on Energy and the Environment
In this commentary, the researchers explore how the short-run effects of Covid-19 in reducing CO2 and local air pollutant emissions can easily be outweighed by the long-run effects of a slowing of...
Jun 29, 2020
Public Transit Use Is Associated With Higher Coronavirus Death Rates
An article in the Wall Street Journal discusses findings from a recent CEEPR Working Paper by Christopher Knittel and Bora Ozaltun on COVID-19 death rates.
Jun 10, 2020
What Does and Does Not Correlate with COVID-19 Death Rates
In this CEEPR Working Paper, Professor Knittel and Bora Ozaltun correlate county-level COVID-19 death rates between April 4, 2020 to May 27, 2020 with key variables using both linear regression and...
Jun 3, 2020
What We Know and Don't Know About Climate Change, and Implications for Policy
In a new CEEPR Working Paper, Professor Robert Pindyck explains that we face considerable uncertainty over climate change and its impact, why there is so much uncertainty, and why we will continue...