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of adoption and transition. Our findings have important implications for policies aiming at promotion of energy …
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Protection Agency’s Climate Wise program and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program, or …
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Global climate change poses a threat to the well-being of humans and other living things through impacts on ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, capital productivity, and human health. Climate change economics attends to this issue by offering theoretical insights and empirical findings relevant...
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Biomass, a renewable energy source, has been viewed as “carbon neutral”—that is, its use as energy is presumed not to …), questioned the treatment of all biomass energy as carbon neutral, arguing that it could undermine legislative emissions reduction …, independent of the feedstocks, would encourage further fossil fuel energy production, to the long-term detriment of the atmosphere …
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Energy development is an integral part of enhanced economic development. The fact that expanded provision and use of … energy services is strongly associated with economic development leaves open how important energy is as a causal factor in … economic development, however; and energy development competes with other opportunities for scarce capital and opportunities …
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The shale gas revolution in the United States has dropped the price of natural gas (NG) significantly. Combined with new fuel and vehicle technologies, an opportunity exists to expand the use of NG throughout the economy, including in the light-duty fleet of cars and trucks. This expansion could...
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responsiveness of fuel demand and equipment choices to energy price changes. The model econometrically estimates fuel demand …, cooking) using the 1995 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey allows for exceptionally detailed estimation of price …
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In this paper, we introduce a new top-down approach to modeling the effects of publicly financed energy … sloping, convex, and dependent on policy design and electricity prices. Under the scenarios modeled, electricity savings of …
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) to slow deforestation and forest degradation and reduce indoor air pollution. However, such an energy transition is … investigates urban energy transition and technology adoption conditions using a dataset of 350 urban households in Tigrai, in …
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We present a model for an energy market that includes a green certificate for suppliers of energy from renewables and a … purchaser commitment to buy these certificates. We show that price and volume effects in the energy market are ambigous under a …. Simulations shows a downward movement in energy prices as the government starts increasing the level of the purchaser commitment …
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