Research that Informs Business and Public Policy- One university’s attempt to reduce energy waste at work Meredith Fowlie
- The Job Creation Shuffle Severin Borenstein
- How (and who) will pay for our energy infrastructure? James Bushnell
- Football – the Ultimate Demand Side Management Program? Maximilian Auffhammer
- Can Mammograms Teach Us Something Useful about Energy Efficiency? Catherine Wolfram
- Oil price crash shows the challenge of breaking addiction Severin Borenstein
- Energy efficiency is a tough sell- Even when it is “free”! Meredith Fowlie
- Raise the Gas Tax Lucas Davis
- Maybe it’s not all just about dollars and cents Maximilian Auffhammer
- Good Energy Reading for the Beach? Catherine Wolfram
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One university’s attempt to reduce energy waste at work
If you work outside your home, chances are you don’t pay (directly) for the energy you use at work. At my place of work, the UC Berkeley campus, most employees never see – let alone pay – their energy bills. … Continue reading
The Job Creation Shuffle
Renewable energy proponents and advocates of the Keystone pipeline finally agree on something: that the right way to count “job creation” is to focus narrowly on the jobs in the industry they want to boost and ignore the overall impact … Continue reading
How (and who) will pay for our energy infrastructure?
You may have heard that the Federal highway trust fund is running out of money because, darn it, people aren’t using enough gasoline. The transformation of our energy system is rapidly accelerating the need to confront a long-standing problem with … Continue reading
Football – the Ultimate Demand Side Management Program?
On this blog we are supposed to write insightful things about energy markets, but I’ve got football on the brain. While the Pats beat the Seahawks in a game everyone watched, my family and I spent the day on an … Continue reading
Can Mammograms Teach Us Something Useful about Energy Efficiency?
At first blush, mammograms and energy efficiency investments appear to have nothing in common – one’s a personal, preventative health tool and the other helps you save money and energy. But I suspect they raise similar time-management issues. Let me … Continue reading
Oil price crash shows the challenge of breaking addiction
The price of crude oil has fallen more than 50% since summer and drivers are responding exactly as economists would predict. Americans are driving more, the market for SUVs is roaring again and the average fuel economy of new cars … Continue reading
Energy efficiency is a tough sell- Even when it is “free”!
Almost two weeks into the New Year, how are those resolutions going? Every year, my long list of resolutions includes several tasks I should be doing but have trouble finding time for, like going to the dentist and installing roof … Continue reading
