Michael Giberson Maybe you already knew this, but I just learned a few days ago that the United States Association for Energy Economics has a working paper series online, hosted at the SSRN. Your research paper can be included (see guidelines here). And while we’re talking about the USAEE, note that the 2008 annual meeting …
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Michael Giberson Up the Yangtze, a documentary by Yung Chang, examines changes along the Yangtze river in China due to the construction of the Three Gorges dam through the stories of two Chinese youth who took jobs on a cruise ship. The cruises are called “farewell tours” because they offer the chance to see parts …
Michael Giberson Sebastian Mallaby provides a clear exposition of what might be considered the mainstream economics story of why “speculation” is not to blame for the current high level of oil prices. [A] speculator can buy paper oil only if someone else sells to him. For every trader who bets on a price rise, there …
Michael Giberson An article in the Washington Post discusses what you can do when building a new home to help keep energy costs low. Here Michael McKechnie of Mountain View Builders in Berkeley Springs, WV, provides a summary: McKechnie outlined the major steps to building a house with the lowest possible energy costs and perhaps …
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Michael Giberson The marginal cost of generation from a wind power generator is essentially zero, which means once the generation is installed you pretty much want to use every bit of wind power generated. A problem, of course, is that wind-based generation is not particularly dispatchable. You don’t tell it when to run, you just …
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Michael Giberson Recently, William Hogan gave a presentation at IDEI and the Toulouse School of Economics titled Electricity Market Design: Coordination, Pricing and Incentives, or, as he more colloquially puts it early in the talk, “Electricity market pricing, and how to think about it.” The 42 minute video is available from the EU Energy Policy …
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Michael Giberson That is the goal. Few numbers show up in the Christian Science Monitor article to support that claim, but the people discussed are launching a business with the goal of improving the design further and then go to production. The key innovations appear to be in the cheaper process to produce the appropriately …
Lynne Kiesling The New York Times has an article today that supports the anecdotal evidence I reported last month: consumers are substituting out of low fuel economy cars and into high fuel economy cars. With gasoline prices topping $4 a gallon, consumers are overwhelming dealerships with demand for the littlest vehicles in the showroom. Mr. …
Michael Giberson What is the current and future state of regional wholesale electricity markets? FERC wants to know, and so it has assembled a panel of experts to appear at a July 1, 2008, technical conference to be held at the Commission. All interested persons are invited to attend, and there is no registration required. …
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Lynne Kiesling On Wednesday Toyota announced that they would release a plug-in hybrid vehicle by 2010, and that they will manufacture hybrid versions of all vehicles over the next 20 years. The battery in the PHEV will be lithium ion, but Toyota is working on developing nickel metal hydride batteries, as well as other battery …
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