October 9, 2018

Carbon tax debate: Nobels and IPCC vs. Trump and Doug Ford

In an article in Grist, Professor Christopher Knittel comments on the carbon tax debate. Read the full article here.

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September 14, 2018

Energy Efficiency, Information, and the Acceptability of Rent Increases

In this paper, the authors explore role of imperfect information and attentional biases in the context of energy efficiency investments by quantifying how alternative informational interventions affect tenants’ acceptance of rent increases in exchange for improved energy efficiency of their heating appliance.

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September 6, 2018

MIT Energy Initiative study reports on the future of nuclear energy

In “The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World,” released by the MIT Energy Initiative on Sept. 3, the authors analyze the reasons for the current global stall of nuclear energy capacity…

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September 4, 2018

Does the U.S. Export Global Warming? Coal Trade and the Shale Gas Boom

Christopher Knittel, Konstantinos Metaxoglou, Anson Soderbery and Andre Trindade examine the effect of the US Shale Gas Boom on global trade, consumption of coal, and CO2 emissions and the results show that the total quantity of coal traded around in the absence of the Boom is essentially the same as the actual…

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August 15, 2018

Fair, Equitable, and Efficient Tariffs in the Presence of DERs

In a new CEEPR Working Paper, the authors delineate various aspects of equity and fairness that regulators must grapple with when designing electricity tariffs and show that more economically efficient tariffs can improve several aspects of equity. The research argues that DER adoption under existing tariff schemes may increase inequities already present in the power system.

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July 26, 2018

Coordinating Separate Markets for Externalities

In a new CEEPR Working Paper, the authors show that inefficiencies from having separate markets to correct an environmental externality are significantly mitigated when firms participate in an integrated product market, using data from an integrated wholesale electricity market.

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