Climate change in California could have a large impact on the state’s economy, natural and managed ecosystems, and human health and mortality. In an effort to mitigate such consequences, Governor Schwarzenegger signed Executive Order S-3-05 in 2005, and the state passed landmark...

This paper investigates how California may reduce transportation greenhouse gas emissions 80% below 1990 levels by 2050 (i.e., 80in50). A Kaya framework that decomposes greenhouse gas emissions into the product of population, transport intensity, energy intensity, and carbon intensity is used to...

Proceeding of the National Hydrogen Association (NHA) Annual Conference, Long Beach, California, March 2006.

This report describes five alternative scenarios for future energy demands in California, developed at UC Davis as part of the Advanced Energy Pathways (AEP) project. The Advanced Energy Pathways is a project of the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) Public Interest Energy Research...

This report covers the development of a baseline scenario for energy demand in California for a projection period to 2050 as part of the Advanced Energy Pathways (AEP) project. The baseline scenario will provide a useful point of comparison for the impacts of choices or changes in policy that...

This paper explores the implications of vehicle recharging on the current electricity grid in California and compares well-to-wheel vehicle emissions for various vehicle and fuel platforms at different times of day and during different seasons. An hourly electricity dispatch model that accounts...

In order to maximize profits, petroleum-producing firms make decisions that are dynamic and strategic in nature, and that take into account constraints imposed by the regulatory and institutional environment. This paper describes our research modeling, estimating and analyzing the efficiency of...

In order to maximize profits, petroleum-producing firms make decisions that are dynamic and strategic in nature, and that take into account constraints imposed by the regulatory and institutional environment. This paper describes our research modeling, estimating and analyzing the efficiency of...

We model the economically optimal dynamic oil production decisions for seven production units (fields) on Alaska's North Slope. We use adjustment cost and discount rate to calibrate the model against historical production data, and use the calibrated model to simulate the impact of tax policy on...