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Is it deregulation or is it just California? An article last week in the New York Times drew new attention to the ongoing debate about the impacts of electricity deregulation, … Continue Reading (More) Breaking News! California Electricity Prices are Still High!
The year’s most popular blog posts addressed rooftop solar policy and the path to electrifying homes and transportation. The widespread adoption of solar energy by California households led the state’s … Continue Reading Top 10 Blog Posts of 2022
Five striking facts from a new Energy Institute working paper. Consumer choice is generally a good thing. For much of the consumption that goes on at my house – coffee, … Continue Reading Why Are Low-Income Customers Paying Higher Prices in Retail Choice Markets?
Historical baseline allocations can increase acceptance of emergency policies, or lock in unfair resource allocations. The price of a good may rise because inputs to making it become more expensive, … Continue Reading A Right to Keep Consuming?
The United States and China are going in the opposite direction on coal. I’m a little surprised by the optimism in this week’s “World Energy Outlook 2022” from the International … Continue Reading Putting China’s Coal Consumption in Context
Peer effects in EV adoption. Obsessing over cool new gadgets, clothes, movies, music, and books has kept many a conversation going. In the classroom we still teach an economic model … Continue Reading Cool Car, (Wo)Man!
A new study finds a large household response to electricity prices in the long run. The law of demand is as close as we economists get to an immutable law … Continue Reading Who (Besides the EI Blog) Pays Attention to Electricity Prices?
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