The Future of the Energy Workforce
Sade Nabahe is a CEEPR Research Assistant working with the Roosevelt Project. Sade shares her experiences interning in Senator Tina Smith’s (D-MN) office as an energy workforce policy fellow.
Trade-offs in Climate Policy: Combining Low-Carbon Standards with Modest Carbon Pricing
Past research suggests that choosing between these policies involves trade-offs between the relative efficiency and progressivity of carbon pricing on the one hand and the political acceptability of low-carbon standards on the other. To inform policy choice, this paper explores the effects of different combinations of both policies.
Going Beyond Default Intensities in an EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
As part of its Green Deal, the EU is currently preparing a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) that will extend carbon pricing to imports with a view to mitigating carbon leakage concerns. This paper outlines a CBAM design that allows producers to demonstrate that their actual carbon intensity lies below the default value.
Distributional Effects of Net Metering Policies and Residential Solar + Storage Adoption
By using a dataset of 100,000 customers’ half-hourly load data and income quintiles from Chicago, IL, the authors of this Working Paper simulate the operation of residential solar and behind-the-meter battery systems under 20%, 45% and 70% adoption levels and calculate both resulting bills as well as cost-shifts for every client.
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.
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.
In The News
Oct 2, 2020
A price on carbon would benefit competitive power markets
As federal debate heats up, a Washington Times op-ed co-authored by CEEPR’s Michael Mehling discusses the rationale of carbon pricing in the electricity sector.
Sep 11, 2020
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.
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....
Aug 4, 2020
MIT and Wyoming Explore Energy and Climate Solutions
Members of Wyoming’s government and public university met with MIT researchers to discuss climate-friendly economic growth.
Jul 22, 2020
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...
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 8, 2020
Competitive Energy Storage and the Duck Curve
Power systems with high penetrations of solar generation need to replace solar output when it falls rapidly in the late afternoon – the duck curve problem. In this paper, Richard Schmalensee...