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All forms of renewable energy are at an inflection point. Falling costs, changing technology, and new environmental and climate regulations have all moved to exponentially increase the growth of renewable energy. How legal terms, such as "qualifying facility" under PURPA are interpreted and...
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Recent benefit-cost studies have shown that the marginal benefits from controlling conventional air emissions from coal-fired electric utility power plants in the US exceed marginal costs of pollution control. Moreover existing and proposed regulations ignore harm caused by the emission of...
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With the ongoing rollout of smart meters in Ireland, time-of-use (ToU) tariffs are currently being introduced as a new … way to pay for electricity. Such tariffs can bring important benefits to both consumers and society, in terms of reduced … tariffs than others. Communication around ToU tariffs thus needs to explain both benefits and challenges successfully; it …
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Why do some governments adopt policies to mitigate climate change while others do not? In this study, I illustrate the importance of industrial organization in shaping prospects for climate mitigation policy. Using a generalized difference-in-differences analysis, I show that U.S. states that...
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In this paper, I attempt to compare costs and benefits of the traditional model with distributed generation within the scope of wind energy generation. In Section II, I examine the following economic aspects of both models: in part A, economies of scale; part B, economics of permanence; part C,...
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Dual pricing is a practice through which resource-endowed states sell their energy resources at significantly lower prices on the domestic market, as compared to the price on the export market. Dual pricing could be considered an environmentally harmful fossil fuel subsidy: States that maintain...
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This Article discusses current challenges to siting new electric transmission infrastructure to facilitate the growth of renewable energy. In doing so, this Article focuses on recent legal and policy developments at the federal, state, and regional levels with a specific emphasis on states with...
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