On Aug. 8, 2005, President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (PL 109-58). This was the first major piece of … energy legislation enacted since 1992 following five years of Congressional efforts to pass energy legislation. Among other …-existing initiatives that the law extends as well as new initiatives. In this paper I survey federal tax energy policy focusing both on …

Addressing climate change requires transitioning away from coal-based energy. Recent structural change models …

Energy security is the ability of households, businesses, and government to accommodate disruptions in supply in energy … markets. This survey considers the economic dimensions of energy security, political and other non-economic security concerns … and discusses policy approaches that could enhance U.S. energy security. A number of points emerge. First, energy security …

I make three points relating to the transition from fossil fuels to non-carbon energy. One is that the economic cost of … moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy in electricity generation is very low, and probably lower than many estimates of …

results of the EU's ESTORAGE project, this paper studies the limits of Germany's energy revolution in view of the volatility …

We analyze optimal policy when consumers of energy-using durables undervalue energy costs relative to their private … distortions from underinvestment in energy efficiency. Discrete choice simulations of the auto market suggest that the Internality … consumers marginal to each instrument. Because consumers who undervalue energy costs are mechanically less responsive to energy …

Our histories depart somewhat from the bulk of the energy innovation policy literature in focusing attention on the … differences between the industries profiled here and the energy sector, but we believe that exploring the potential of these kinds … of innovation ecosystems in clean energy might be a fruitful avenue for future research …

in China. A short-lived alliance between the U.S.S.R. and China led to the construction of 150 "Million-Rouble plants" in …

Since 2005, the Chinese government has engaged in an ambitious effort to move China's energy system away from coal and … towards more environmentally friendly sources of energy. However, China's investment in coal power has accelerated sharply in … recent years, raising concerns of massive overcapacity and undermining the central policy goal of promoting cleaner energy …