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Highlights from FERC’s 2015 State of the Markets Report
focusing on electricity and natural gas market activity. Below are just some ... natural gas supplies led to lower gas and electricity prices, but created stress for oil and gas producers and pipeline companies. In spite of low
PUCO Rules Against Competitive Markets
orders approving power purchase agreements (PPA) with FirstEnergy (FE) and American Electric Power (AEP) owned coal and nuclear plants, sending ripple ... , plus portions of FE and AEP’s contractual output from the Ohio Valley
It’s Ideology, Stupid: Why Voters Still Shun Carbon Taxes
added benefit of raising government revenue. Political and technocratic ... Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen. More broadly, economists seem fairly uniform in their support for such taxes at the federal level, and in their
We Have To Go Nuclear
.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. And he’s an ardent supporter of ... change, we think of electric cars and renewable energy like solar and wind ... fuels can generate electricity 24/7 and with little dependence on external
E-Grocery Is Changing the Last Mile Structure of the Global Food System
any kind of food shopping where item selection and payment takes place online and the food is delivered to the shopper. This includes meal kit ... delivery from fulfillment centers that only serve online shoppers, and food
The Efficiency Potential of E-Grocery
environmental impacts, both positive and negative, stand to be made. With increased attention from researchers and policymakers, e-grocery could ... -grocery that utilizes traditional brick-and-mortar grocery stores. While
Making Utility Assistance to Low-Income Households More Effective
has become a greater concern for regulators, utilities, and consumer groups, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the expectation in some ... . Household affordability of electricity and natural gas demands some form of
How Effective Are Vehicle Exhaust Standards?
for 40% of total U.S. emissions and are associated with more than 37,000 deaths in the U.S. (rivaling annual traffic fatalities) and more than 250,000 deaths globally each year. (( For U.S. damages, see Fann et al. (2013) and
International Condemnation of Russian Nuclear Occupation
United Nations, has condemned the Russian occupation and sought to promote the safety and security of the Ukrainian power plant through diplomatic missions to the United Nations, resolutions by policy-making bodies, and the
How the World’s Largest Green Bond is Making Waves in Emerging Markets
Few nations escaped the sweeping and persistent casualties of COVID-19 and the rise in global inflation across 2020 and 2021. The ... floods and lower agricultural yields. Amidst the cost