.S. coal-fired plants emitted 1.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide and 74% of coal-fired electricity production came from price …This paper provides empirical evidence that U.S. power plants exhibit risk aversion when purchasing coal. Specifically …, I show that plants facing more spot coal price uncertainty sign longer duration coal contracts, purchase contract coal …

procurement practices by coal- and natural gas-fired electricity generating plants in the United States following state … gas-fired electricity plants in the United States from 1990-2009, with plant-level data on operations and regulatory … purchases to more productive mines, rather than simply a transfer of regulatory rents from coal producers to electricity …

long-run efficiency benefits by removing the incentive to over-invest in capital. The coal storage behavior of U.S. power … plants is an ideal setting to empirically assess this claim: coal stockpiles are adjusted far more frequently than … traditional forms of capital and regulators treat coal stockpiles as working capital. This paper estimates a dynamic plant …

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 between lowering costs and maintaining coal capacity. We find that …

-in-differences analysis, I show that U.S. states that adopt electricity market liberalization laws are subsequently fifteen to forty …

method used to couple the CentralWestern European (CWE) electricity markets. It has also introduced a large-scale model …. Furthermore, we provide a case study assessing improved price zone configurations (PZCs) for the extended CWE electricity system …

) retail electricity services that include the distribution network, the retail cost of transmission service, and often …

electricity prices …