Electric vehicle grid integration in the U.S., Europe, and China
This report examines key drivers of EV adoption in three regions – the United States, the European Union, and China – with an emphasis on vehicle charging scenarios and infrastructure…
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Changing climate for carbon taxes: Who’s afraid of the WTO ?
Carbon taxes have recently become a major source of discussion in the Washington, DC policy community. Supporters contend that they offer an efficient way to simultaneously create incentives to emit less carbon dioxide and reduce the budget deficit. Should such a carbon tax be enacted…
President Obama’s Climate Action Plan
On 25 June 2013, President Obama issued his Climate Action Plan. This is his Administration’s best effort to tackle the issues, but it also reflects the inability to pass federal climate change legislation…
Efficiency and environmental factors in the US electricity transmission industry
The electricity industry in most developed countries has been restructured over recent decades with the aim of improving both service quality and firms’ performance. Regulated segments still provide the infrastructure for the competitive segments and represent a notable amount of the total price paid by final customers…
The Shale Oil Boom: A U.S. Phenomenon
In this paper, Maugeri wrote that the unique characteristics of shale oil production are ideal for the United States — and unlikely to be mirrored elsewhere in the world. These factors include the availability of drilling rigs, and the entrepreneurial nature of the American exploration and production industry, both critical for the thousands of wells required for shale oil exploitation.
The state of state shale gas regulation
This Resources for the Future report describe, analyze, and compare 25 regulatory elements related to shale gas development across 31 states…
Leveraging natural gas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
The report examines the climate challenges and opportunities posed by the current natural gas boom
La révolution pétrolière américaine : quelles conséquences stratégiques ?
La révolution énergétique américaine aura des conséquences profondes sur l’économie nationale et les marchés mondiaux. Quelles sont les conséquences stratégiques de cette évolution ? Certains suggèrent que la politique américaine au Moyen-Orient pourrait en être bouleversée. Il n’en est rien.
US shale gas development: What led to the boom?
In this issue brief, we provide an overview of the economic, policy, and technology history of shale gas development in the United States to ascertain what led to the shale gas boom…
US energy: the new reality
The trend of rising US dependence on imports of foreign oil and natural gas has been abruptly reversed, as a result of falling domestic demand for oil and increasing domestic supplies…
Renewable electricity policy, intermittency, and cost-effectivenes
A variety of renewable electricity policies to promote investment in wind, solar, and other types of renewable generators exist across the United States. The federal renewable energy investment tax credit, the federal renewable energy production tax credit, and state renewable portfolio standards are among the most notable. Whether the benefits of promoting new technology and reducing pollution emissions from the power sector justify these policies’costs has been the subject of considerable debate. We argue in this paper that the debate is misguided because it does not consider two important interactions between renewable electricity generators and the rest of the power system…
The critical decade: Global action building on climate change
The report presents an overview of progress in international action on climate change since August 2012, with a particular focus on China and the US
The policy climate
In this report, we offer an overview of policy issues relevant to climate change across the world that we hope will allow policymakers, analysts, advocates, and interested people of all stripes begin to see how the policy challenges of climate change fit together at the national and transnational level…
A retrospective review of shale gas development in the United States
The primary objective of this RFF’s paper is to answer the question of what led to the shale gas boom in the United States to help inform stakeholders in those countries that are attempting to develop their own shale gas resources…
