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Journal Articles

Hot Money: Illuminating the Financing of High-Carbon Infrastructure in the Developing World

Hard Choices About Heavy Metal On a Hot Planet

Transitioning to Clean Energy Transportation Services: Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Vehicle Fleets

Dispatch From 2030: What a Global Pandemic Taught Us About Tackling Climate Change

Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems

Capacity Rights and Full Cost Transfer Pricing

The Emergence of Cost Effective Battery Storage

Economics of Converting Renewable Power to Hydrogen

Hot Air Won’t Fly: The New Climate Consensus that Carbon Pricing Isn’t Cutting It

Why Carbon Pricing Isn’t Working: Good Idea in Theory, Failing in Practice

Betting on Climate Policy: Using Prediction Markets to Address Global Warming

The New Age of Renewable Energy

Enabling Mini-Grid Development in Rural India

The Effectiveness of Federal Renewable Policies in India

Did Accelerated Depreciation Result in Lower Generation Efficiencies for Wind Plants in India: An Empirical Analysis

Designing Renewable Energy Auctions for India: Managing Risks to Maximize Deployment and Cost-Effectiveness

Cost Competitiveness of Residential Solar PV: The Impact of Net Metering Restrictions

Making Renewable Energy Competitive in India: Reducing Financing Costs via a Government-Sponsored Hedging Facility

Fading into the sunset: Solar and wind energy get five more years of tax credits with a phase-down

Translating Risk Assessment to Contingency Planning for CO2 Geologic Storage: A Methodological Framework

A Reply to “Historical Construction Costs of Global Nuclear Power Reactors”

Economic Value of Flexible Hydrogen-Based Polygeneration Energy Systems

A Tale of Three Markets: Comparing the Renewable Energy Experiences of California, Texas, and Germany

Cost-Effective Policies for Reaching India’s 2022 Renewable Targets

Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth: A New Relationship with Significant Consequences?

Clean Energy Federalism

The U.S. investment tax credit for solar energy: Alternatives to the anticipated 2017 step-down

Instrument Choice, Carbon Emissions, and Information

​Fat-Tailed Uncertainty, Learning, and Climate Policy

Peak Electricity and the Clean Power Plan

Evaluating Renewable Portfolio Standards for In-State Renewable Deployment: Accounting for Policy Heterogeneity

Wind Energy Deployment in the U.S.: An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Federal and State Policies

Re-Allocating Risk: The Case for Closer Integration of Price- and Quantity-Based Support Policies for Clean Energy

An Economic Perspective on the EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Incentives for Early Adoption of Carbon Capture Technology

California’s Energy and Climate Policy: A Full Plate, But Perhaps Not a Model Policy

Beyond Tax Credits: Smarter Tax Policy for a Cleaner, More Democratic Energy Future

Has India’s Solar Mission Increased the Deployment of Domestically Produced Solar Modules?

Separating Fact from Fiction: A Challenge for the Media

Natural Gas, Uncertainty, and Climate Policy in the US Electric Power Sector

Energy Technology Expert Elicitations: An Application to Natural Gas Turbine Efficiencies

The Effect of Natural Gas Supply on US Renewable Energy and CO2 Emissions

Smart Everything: Will Intelligent Systems Reduce Resource Use?

Financial Assessment of CO2 Capture and Storage with Electricity Trading in the U.S.: Role of Interim Storage and Enhanced Oil Recovery

The Effectiveness of Domestic Content Criteria in India’s Solar Mission

Renewable Deployment in India: Financing Costs and Implications for Policy

Renewable Energy Certificate Markets in India — A Review

Three Mile Island: The Driver of US Nuclear Power’s Decline?

Time of Day Pricing and the Levelized Cost of Intermittent Power Generation

Electric Sector Investments Under Technological and Policy-Related Uncertainties: A Stochastic Programming Approach

Working Papers

What’s Next After Carbon Accounting? Emissions Liability Management

Accounting for Carbon Offsets – Establishing the Foundation for Carbon-Trading Markets

The Road to Climate Stability Runs through Emissions Liability Management

Clean Energy Technologies: Dynamics of Cost and Price

Corporate Carbon Reduction Pledges: An Effective Tool to Mitigate Climate Change?

Retreat from the Rock: How a Pullback in Coal Lending by China, Korea, and the United States Could Change Geopolitics and the Climate

The Impact of Carbon Disclosure Mandates on Emissions and Financial Operating Performance

Clean Energy Transportation Services: A Life-Cycle Cost Framework

Optional Volatility and Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Energy Systems

The Road Ahead for Solar PV Power

The Prospects for Renewable Hydrogen Production

Managerial Flexibility in Levelized Cost Measures: A Framework for Incorporating Uncertainty in Energy Investment Decisions

A Pathway Toward Reducing CO2 Emissions from the Industrial Sector

Relating Product Prices to Long-Run Marginal Cost: Evidence from Solar Photovoltaic Modules

A Tale of Three Markets: Comparing the Solar and Wind Deployment Experiences of California, Texas, and Germany

Cost- and Price Dynamics of Solar PV Modules

Energizing The US Resource Innovation Ecosystem: The Case for an Aligned Intermediary to Accelerate GHG Emissions Reduction

Reaching India’s Renewable Energy Targets Cost-Effectively

The Heterogeneous Effects of Eco-labels on Internalities and Externalities

How the EPA Should Modify Its Proposed III(d) Regulations to Allow States to Comply By Taxing Pollution

Dynamically Estimating the Distributional Impacts of U.S. Climate Policy with NEMS: A Case Study of the Climate Protection Act of 2013

A State Tax Approach to Regulating Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act

Clean Energy Scores a Success with the Master Limited Partnership Parity Act

Avoiding Sunstroke: Assessing National Competitiveness in the Global Solar Race

Levelized Product Cost: Concept and Decision Relevance

Analysis of the Climate Protection Act of 2013

Op-Ed or News Articles

To make net zero add up through carbon markets we need to learn from accountants

Fat-Tailed Uncertainty, Learning, and Climate Policy