Currently, renewable technologies are often evaluated using the Levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), which is a measure of building and […]
READ moreTo design climate policy decision makers must choose from a variety of policy options such as carbon pricing and low-carbon […]
READ moreAs part of its Green Deal, the European Union is currently preparing a “Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism” (CBAM). A CBAM […]
READ moreNet metering schemes (NEM), typically implemented to incentivize investment on distributed energy resources (DER), could be regressive, given that DER […]
READ moreAdvocates for addressing climate change point to the urgency of accelerating a low-carbon energy transition and the benefits that can […]
READ moreMajor industrial transitions in the United States led to highly divergent community outcomes. As the nation transitions to a deeply […]
READ moreWhat happens to people and places as communities transition from one form of energy production and consumption to another? How […]
READ moreWe employ machine learning techniques to estimate household carbon footprints (HCFs) for the average household in each Census tract—geographic areas […]
READ moreThe world must rapidly shift to clean energy sources in order to avoid causing additional, catastrophic damage to the climate. […]
READ moreGovernment actions to counteract climate change must take into account how Americans view the climate crisis and what they believe […]
READ moreDeep decarbonization of existing economies may still avert the worst of catastrophic global climatic disruption. As political discourse in the […]
READ moreSolutions to climate change will require the mass deployment of new energy technologies and infrastructure. Two fundamental questions emerge from […]
READ moreThe Energy sector is critical to the economic vitality of the United States, but has been undergoing significant change in […]
READ moreSources of innovative growth have the potential to mitigate the localized adverse impacts of a low-carbon energy transition. Transitions themselves […]
READ moreWe show that residential rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV) adoption under typical electricity tariffs that inefficiently recover residual costs through volumetric […]
READ moreTechnological change in industries that are characterized by large technical systems often occurs incrementally along given technological trajectories. Given pressing […]
READ moreIn this commentary, we explore how the short-run effects of Covid-19 in reducing CO2 and local air pollutant emissions can […]
READ morePower systems with high penetrations of solar generation need to replace solar output when it falls rapidly in the late […]
READ moreThe ability of power system participants to trade in short-term power markets is not only limited by grid constraints, but […]
READ morePersistent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions threaten global climate goals and have prompted consideration of climate controls supplementary to emissions mitigation. […]
READ moreThis paper studies the introduction of an EU-wide emission standard on the automobile market. Using panel data from 1998-2011, I […]
READ moreThere is a lot we know about climate change, but there is also a lot we don’t know. Even if […]
READ moreWe correlate county-level COVID-19 death rates with key variables using both linear regression and negative binomial mixed models, although we […]
READ moreIn this chapter of the forthcoming Handbook on the Economics of Electricity, we examine the global implications of electrifying the […]
READ moreThis paper addresses the role of pumped hydro storage (PHS) to decarbonization of the electricity sector using Spain’s power system […]
READ moreMost of the literature on the economics of catastrophes assumes that such events cause a reduction in the stream of […]
READ moreWe formulate generation capacity portfolio planning in the power grid as a least-cost optimization problem and derive analytical expressions for […]
READ moreBased on data for a portfolio of 548 multi-unit buildings observed over 16 years, we quantify the impacts of more […]
READ moreMeeting climate policy targets in the U.S. Northeast will likely require the nearly complete decarbonization of electricity generation. To that […]
READ moreGovernments use procurement auctions for renewable energy support to stimulate investment in renewable energy. The main challenge in auction design […]
READ moreWe use causal forests to evaluate the heterogeneous treatment effects (TEs) of repeated behavioral nudges towards household energy conservation. The […]
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