December 2007

Capacity Markets and Other Stories of Energy, Policy and Economy

Electricity, Energy markets / By

Michael Giberson Gunnar Birgisson at the Energy Legal Blog provides an update on electric power capacity market developments: No Common Denominator on Capacity Markets. (What? No “common denominator” more than a year and a half after Peter Cramton and Steven Stoft declared, “The Convergence of Market Designs for Adequate Generating Capacity“? As Cramton and Stoft …

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Good Data from Online Ticket Sales and Resales Help Reveal Ticket Resale Market

4 Comments / Economics, Music, Professional sports / By

Michael Giberson Today, December 10, 2007, StubHub announced that the ten millionth ticket was recently exchanged through the site. The company said that the exchange involved a pair of tickets to next Sunday’s game between the Green Bay Packers-St. Louis Rams in St. Louis. In a pattern perhaps typical of many exchanges on StubHub, a …

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Paging Dr. Tabarrok: Off the Fast Track at the Fda

2 Comments / Politics / By

Michael Giberson When I read about this news story about the FDA from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, I immediately thought of (FDA critic) Alex Tabarrok. Googling “FDA Tabarrok fast track” brought me to “Regulatory Overdose” at Forbes: But George Mason University economist Alexander Tabarrok has a different idea: Abolish FDA-required efficacy testing altogether. Such testing …

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Girls Dominate Siemens Science, Math, Technology Competition

4 Comments / Economics / By

Lynne Kiesling I’m not one to see everything through the lens of gender, but this is pretty cool: for the first time in its nine-year history, girls have won all of the grand prizes at the Siemens math and science competition: Siemens Foundation President James Whaley says the percentage of girls entering the competition has …

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Linking Wind Farms Can Help Average Away Problems with Intermittency

4 Comments / Electricity / By

Michael Giberson A research paper describes the benefits of linking up wind power farms before connecting wind power to the grid. Discovery News reports: [R]esearch shows that if the farms were linked to each other first before delivering the electricity to the country’s grid, wind could offer steady, dependable power at a cost lower than …

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Alaska Gas Pipeline: Will the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act Get Construction Started?

Economics, Energy markets, Politics / By

Michael Giberson Last Friday, the State of Alaska received five proposals in response to a Alaska Gasline Inducement Act deadline to build a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope into Canadian and American markets. The applicants are Alaska Gasline Port Authority, AEnergia LLC, TransCanada, Sinopec ZPEB and Alaska Natural Gasline Development Authority. If the …

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