Michael Giberson The Salt River Project, a central Arizona public power utility serving almost a million consumers, already charges it’s customers higher rates in the summer, but they are proposing to increase their summer rates even more. The Arizona Republic reports: Salt River Project wants to prompt more people to conserve during the hottest hours …
Lynne Kiesling Note also the Popular Mechanics CES Blog; Popular Mechanics has sent KP friend Glenn Reynolds to the CES to report on what he finds there.
Lynne Kiesling The annual Consumer Electronics Show kicks off today in Las Vegas, and at least at a marketing level it’s going green: Gadget makers are joining a green movement sweeping the corporate world, a new theme at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Vendors plan to display products such as biodegradable PCs and solar-powered cellphone …
Lynne Kiesling Here’s an interesting article on yesterday’s EPA decision not to let a subset of states set carbon automobile emissions caps. This issue has been brewing for a couple of years, with 17 states arguing that the lack of federal activity to set a federal greenhouse gas emission standard means that states can act …
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Lynne Kiesling I firmly believe that retail choice in electricity has instrumental value in and of itself: choice qua choice is a good thing and should be an important policy goal in electricity restructuring, independent of utilitarian evaluations of the outcomes of free choice. There are, though, several ways that free choice and the removal …
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Lynne Kiesling I am late to the party because I was grading last week, but I commend to your attention Ron Bailey’s first, second, third, and fourth essays from the United Nations conference on climate change in Bali over the last two weeks. Ron is a thoughtful analyst of the climate change questions, and that …
Michael Giberson The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) folks have posted the comments filed in response to the final auction design report. Previously here I commented on one such filing, an analysis by economist Peter Cramton submitted by the ISO-New England and NYISO, that pointed out a potential flaw in the auction design. Briefly scanning …
Michael Giberson At Common Tragedies, Rich Sweeney observed that “Pool and spa safety makes it into the energy bill,” but “renewable portfolio standards and increased oil taxes didn’t.” According to the preamble of the proposed “Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007,” it is intended (among other things) to “move the United States toward greater …
Lynne Kiesling We’ve written a lot about ethanol here at KP, including a post on the excellent Runge & Senauer Foreign Affairs article, which remains a recommended read (and which I assigned to my freshman seminar this fall). Now the Economist is on the story; their cover this week has a striking photo and a …
Michael Giberson The RGGI auction design final report released in October 2007, which contains the proposed auction design for the sale of RGGI CO2 permits, overall presents a thorough examination of the market design problem and a well-thought out justification for their final design proposal. There is, however, one serious flaw that threatens the efficiency …
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