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2021 Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics
About the Workshop The Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics will meet virtually on Monday and Tuesday, June 14 - 15 ... , reflecting the latest advances in energy and environmental economics. We are
Efficiency and Diversification: A Framework for Sustainably Transitioning to a Carbon-Neutral Economy
efforts spanning monitoring, capacity building, and financing. It discusses ... dependent on, and shaped by, the regulations and technologies of national and ... economy built on reliability and continuous energy provision. A Carbon
Electricity Market Structure in Texas: Lessons for the Transition to Renewables
-only” wholesale market design, meaning that they rely on the price of electricity ... like a free market leap of faith. For years, electricity market observers ... -time market prices from ERCOT and generation data from the EPA Continuous
Kleinman Visiting Scholar and Penn Professor Develop Solution for Nuclear Waste Storage
for the Australian government in Vienna and Washington D.C., and was a ... skills. Smith, who is currently Senior Technology and Market Assessor for ... material of nuclear weaponry, and the risk that it could fall into the wrong
The Changing Landscape of IAMs and Opportunities for Improved Climate Policy
assess the impacts of climate change and the effectiveness of policies for addressing it. Improvements to these models offer substantial benefits for ... evolution of Dynamic IAMs has broad applications for macroeconomics and policy
Part 1: Wholesale Electricity Markets: Is It the LMP, or the LMP Alone?
Mark Christie takes this further, and argues that prices based on a single clearing price are the problem and we should abandon the locational marginal price (LMP) altogether. Both highlight the challenge of relying on
Regulating Utility-Scale Solar Projects on Agricultural Land
leasing land for utility-scale solar can drive up land rents and prices ... food and fiber production, or the effects on the local agricultural industry. The competition for land between utility-scale solar and
If It Sounds Too Good to be True, It Probably Is
provocative claim that the United States, and each of its member states, could ... critique wrote that a policy prescription relying solely on wind, solar, and hydropower “overpromises” on the benefits and “could be counterproductive
Batteries as a Service: Why It Works (and Why It Probably Won’t Work in the West)
off in the West—and why it probably never will. For starters, there ... and its battery, you just buy the car. You then subscribe to a battery ... on—because companies wouldn’t make back what they spent on hardware and
What Impact Will the IRA Have on Consumer Energy Costs?
. Stone: So a final question for you here, and I kind of already asked it a ... capped on an annual basis once the legislation takes effect, and it could ... lead to a reduction in its retail prices by 4.5%, and that's just at a