Is energy efficiency a good thing even with rebound?
By Gernot WagnerBy Inês Azevedo, Kenneth Gillingham, David Rapson, and Gernot Wagner. Lighting is critical to our livelihoods. Humans have used lighting technology since long before industrialization....
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Reconsidering the Rebound Effect
By Gernot WagnerBy Kenneth Gillingham, David Rapson, and Gernot Wagner. The rebound effect from improving energy efficiency has been widely discussed—from the pages of the New York Times and New Yorker...
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Biking and Renewables
By Gernot WagnerIllustration by Kelsey King/Ensia There’s nothing quite like biking down clogged city streets, weaving in and out of traffic. For short distances, it’s faster than driving. It’s...
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Transforming the Electric System to Reduce Costs and Pollution
By Beia SpillerBy: Beia Spiller and Kristina Mohlin Electricity markets around the world are transforming from a model where electricity flows one way (from electricity-generating power plants to the...
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Benefits of Clean, Distributed Energy: Why Time, Location, and Compensation...
By Kristina MohlinNew York is preparing for a future in which clean, distributed energy resources – such as energy efficiency, electric vehicles, rooftop solar panels, and other types of local, on-site...
View ArticleThe United States Could Lead the Next Tech Revolution by Investing in Clean...
By Jonathan CamuzeauxNew Risky Business Report Finds Transitioning to a Clean Energy Economy is both Technologically and Economically Feasible In the first Risky Business report, a bi-partisan group of...
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Dysfunctional gas market cost New England electric customers $3.6 billion
By Kristina MohlinThis blog post was co-authored with Levi Marks, Charles Mason and Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins New England natural gas and electricity prices have undergone dramatic spikes in recent...
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Study: Renewables played crucial role in U.S. CO2 reductions
By Kristina MohlinThis blog was co-authored with Jonathan Camuzeaux, Adrian Muller, Marius Schneider and Gernot Wagner. After a nearly 20-year upward trend, U.S. CO2 emissions from energy took a sharp...
View ArticleHow reverse auctions can help scale energy storage
By Steve KollerThis post is co-authored with Maureen Lackner Just as reverse auctions have helped increase new renewable energy capacity, our new policy brief for the Review of Environmental Economics...
View ArticleAccelerating clean energy innovation is key to solving the climate crisis
By Susanne BrooksThis post originally appeared on Climate 411 and was co-authored by Elgie Holstein Our nation has a history of tackling big challenges and leveraging the ingenuity of American...
View ArticleHow we can make Time of Use Pricing work for everyone
By Beia SpillerHow we pay for electricity has important implications for our bills, as well as for the costs of the electric system. Most people pay a flat rate, essentially one price per unit of...
View ArticleIs energy efficiency a good thing even with rebound?
By Gernot WagnerBy Inês Azevedo, Kenneth Gillingham, David Rapson, and Gernot Wagner. Lighting is critical to our livelihoods. Humans have used lighting technology since long before industrialization....
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What policy instrument options are available to address methane emissions...
By Kristina MohlinThis blog was coauthored by Maureen Lackner, Huong Nguyen and Aaron Wolfe. New EDF Economics Discussion Paper describes the instrument options available to policy makers in both oil...
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