This article introduces and overviews U.S. renewable energy policy. It describes the shape, content, and contours of that policy, including its emphases and functions in both the electricity and transportation sectors of the U.S. economy. To do so, the article builds a conceptual model that can...

There is a large gap between the percentage of electricity generated from renewable sources in the U.S. and EU. This paper argues the reasons are not just a failure of policy in the U.S. but also matters of deep political structure and culture. Federalism, separation of powers, changing policies...

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...

Die Zukunft des Autoverkehrs und alternative Antriebsmöglichkeiten stehen im Mittelpunkt des materialreichen Buchs eines Verfahrenswissenschaftlers und eines Journalisten. Das ist nicht erst seit der Krise der Autoindustrie ein wichtiges Thema, zu dem auch der bekannte Verkehrswissenschaftler...