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Regulation of Access, Pricing, and Planning of High Voltage Transmission in the U.S.

De Losa, Joe; Pfeifenberger, Johannes P.; Joskow, Paul L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The U.S. regulation of high-voltage transmission is highly complex and, as a result, generally poorly understood. The complexity is created by separate, but overlapping, jurisdictional authorities of the U.S. federal regulators and those of individual states, districts, and territories. While...

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Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets

Gowrisankaran, Gautam; Langer, Ashley; Reguant, Mar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Natural gas has replaced coal as the dominant fuel for U.S. electricity generation. However, U.S. states that regulate electric utilities have retired coal more slowly than others. We build a structural model of rate-of-return regulation during an energy transition where utilities face tradeoffs...

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Transmission Impossible? Prospects for Decarbonizing the US Grid

Davis, Lucas W.; Hausman, Catherine; Rose, Nancy L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Encouraged by the declining cost of grid-scale renewables, recent analyses conclude that the United States could reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 at relatively low cost using currently available technologies. While the cost of renewable generation has declined dramatically,...

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The Shifting Finance of Electricity Generation

Andonov, Aleksandar; Rauh, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

corporations use contracts with shorter duration, shorter increment pricing, and more peak-period sales, and obtain a $2.59 higher …

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Flexible Data Centers and the Grid : Lower Costs, Higher Emissions?

Knittel, Christopher R.; Senga, Juan Ramon L.; Wang, Shen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Data centers are among the fastest-growing electricity consumers, raising concerns about their impact on grid operations and decarbonization goals. Their temporal flexibility--the ability to shift workloads over time--offers a source of demand-side flexibility. We model power systems in three...

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Take the Load Off : Time and Technology as Determinants of Electricity Demand Response

Bailey, Megan; Brown, David P.; Shaffer, Blake C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

As electricity systems transition toward more variable renewable energy, flexible demand has emerged as a critical tool for grid management. Yet a fundamental question remains: are emerging smart technologies sufficient to unlock demand response, or does human behavior remain the critical...

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Electricity Retail Rate Design in a Decarbonized Economy : An Analysis of Time-Of-Use and Critical Peak Pricing

Schittekatte, Tim; Mallapragada, Dharik; Joskow, Paul L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

wholesale spot prices. Pure spot pricing is not popular; consumers (and politicians) value price predictability and bill … stability. We focus on second-best alternatives: time-of-use (TOU) and critical peak pricing (CPP). We introduce alternative …

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The Dynamic Impact of Market Integration : Evidence from Renewable Energy Expansion in Chile

Gonzales, Luis E.; Ito, Koichiro; Reguant, Mar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Effective and economical expansion of renewable energy is one of the most urgent and important challenges of addressing climate change. However, many countries are facing a problem because existing network infrastructures (i.e., transmission networks) were not originally built to accommodate...

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Carbon Pricing, Clean Electricity Standards, and Clean Electricity Subsidies on the Path to Zero Emissions

Borenstein, Severin; Kellogg, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

electricity generation--pricing carbon, setting intensity standards, and subsidizing clean energy--and compare their market … outcomes under similar expansions of clean electricity generation. While pricing emissions gives strong incentives to first … considerably weaken or even reverse the usual assumed efficiency advantage of carbon pricing policies over alternatives, including …

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Bitcoin Mining Meets Wall Street : A Study of Publicly Traded Crypto Mining Companies

Hałaburda, Hanna; Yermack, David L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies the operations and financial valuations of 13 cryptocurrency mining companies that are listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange and have facilities in North America. We find that miners using Texas wind power are offline more than other miners, in a more erratic pattern, while...

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