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) retail electricity services that include the distribution network, the retail cost of transmission service, and often …
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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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Despite the incentives of incumbent domestic listed corporations (DLCs) in the electricity generation industry, private … equity, institutional investors, and foreign corporations have played an outsized role in financing the energy transition …% of natural gas electricity production as of 2020. The ownership changes are concentrated in deregulated wholesale markets …
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Natural gas has replaced coal as the dominant fuel for U.S. electricity generation. However, U.S. states that regulate … an energy transition where utilities face tradeoffs between lowering costs and maintaining coal capacity. We find that …
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The growth of electric vehicles (EVs) raises new challenges for electricity systems. We implement a field experiment to …
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Effective and economical expansion of renewable energy is one of the most urgent and important challenges of addressing … renewable supply. In this paper, we study the static and dynamic impacts of market integration on renewable energy expansion … dynamically, it incentivizes new entry of renewable power plants. Using two recent grid expansions in the Chilean electricity …
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stable sources of energy such as hyrdo power or solar power, as reflected in significantly higher enterprise values. We find …
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There is limited causal evidence on the effects of different public procurement regulations on project quality and value-for-money for projects funded by national governments and foreign aid donors. This paper uses policy and experimental variation to study how two key contracting...
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Currently, most U.S. electricity consumers pay a constant price per kWh consumed that accounts for most of their bill …
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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 … eliminate generation with the highest social cost, a clean energy standard incentivizes earliest phaseout of the generation with …
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