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ELECTRICITY

After years of sluggish investment, the U.S. electricity sector must now meet growing demand while significantly reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. Successfully achieving these twin goals is complicated by the fact that major investment decisions are being made when the specifics of future U.S. climate policy are highly uncertain. Amid these uncertainties is an enormous opportunity for electricity as America’s premium energy source in the emerging carbon-constrained economy.

PUBLICATIONS
An Experimental Analysis of Auctioning Emissions Allowances under a Loose Cap
William Shobe, Karen L. Palmer, Erica Myers, Charles Holt, Jacob Goeree, Dallas Burtraw
RFF Discussion Paper 09-25 | June 2009
 
The Incidence of U.S. Climate Policy: Alternative Uses of Revenues from a Cap-and-Trade Auction
Dallas Burtraw, Richard Sweeney, Margaret A. Walls
RFF Discussion Paper 09-17-REV | June 2009
 
Reflections on Three Decades of Energy Policy
Phil Sharp
Resources | Winter/Spring 2009 (171)
 
Energy Efficiency: Efficiency or Monopsony?
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 09-20 | May 2009
 
Teaching Opportunity Cost in an Emissions Permit Experiment
Charles Holt, Erica Myers, Markus Wråke, Svante Mandell, Dallas Burtraw
RFF Discussion Paper 09-22 | May 2009
 
Regulatory Challenges of Nanotechnology
Christopher Bosso, editor
RFF Press | September 2009
 
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