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We examine the long transition from water to steam power in US manufacturing, focusing on early users of mechanical power: lumber and flour mills. Digitizing Census of Manufactures manuscripts for 1850 to 1880, we show that as steam costs declined, manufacturing activity grew faster in counties...
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We investigate the short- and long-term effects of a natural gas boom in an economy where energy can be produced with coal, natural gas, or clean sources and the direction of technology is endogenous. In the short run, a natural gas boom reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away...
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Policies supporting investment in renewable electricity have been a cornerstone of climate policy in many parts of the world. While previous empirical work explores the economic and environmental impacts of renewable production, the focus has exclusively been on the short-run impacts of...
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We examine the effect of in-state and out-of-state renewable energy policies on wind energy patenting. Using a …
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The challenge of mitigating climate change has focused recent attention on basic scientific research feeding into the development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping processes involving: (1) the production of scientific...
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treatment effects in a staggered adoption panel data design. We find that, on average, RPS policies increase wind generation … for wind and solar electricity generation mimic those for capacity investments. We also find similar results using an …
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We provide a spatial theory of clean growth to assess the global impact of the rise of renewable energy. We model the details of the combined production and transmission network of electricity ("the grid") that determine the supply and losses of energy in space. The local rate of clean energy...
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US, as collected by Burning Glass Technology, and we create a new measure of green jobs, defined here as solar and wind … jobs. We use job titles and task requirements to define green jobs. We find that both solar and wind job postings have more … capacity. In 2019, we identify approximately 52,500 solar job openings and 13,500 wind job openings. Solar jobs are mostly (33 …
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needed, including the degree of intermittency and the correlations between wind and solar power outputs at different …
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. Universities play a less important role in wind research than for solar and biofuels, suggesting that wind energy research is at a …
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