RFF Publications

California?s New Gold: A Primer on the Use of Allowance Value Created under the CO2 Cap-and-Trade Program

For the Benefit of California Electricity Ratepayers: Electricity Sector Options for the Use of Allowance Value Created under California?s Cap-and-Trade Program

Hearing on The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012

Reliability in the Electricity Industry under New Environmental Regulations

Managing Water: Governance Innovations to Enhance Coordination

Analysis of the Bingaman Clean Energy Standard Proposal

The Variability of Potential Revenue from a Tax on Carbon

Households? Willingness to Pay for Improved Urban Waste Management in Mekelle City, Ethiopia

Urban Growth Externalities and Neighborhood Incentives: Another Cause of Urban Sprawl?

The Realities of Federal Disaster Aid: The Case of Floods

Alternative Climate Policies and Intertemporal Emissions Leakage: Quantifying the Green Paradox

The Potential Role of Carbon Labeling in a Green Economy

How Does Regulation Affect Employment? An Interview with Richard Morgenstern

Climate Policy, Uncertainty, and the Role of Technological Innovation

Improving Fuel Economy in Heavy-Duty Vehicles

Explaining the Failure to Insure Catastrophic Risks

?Quantifying information security risks using expert judgment elicitation? Computers and Operations Research Journal , 39, (2012) 774?784.

Redistributional Effects of the National Flood Insurance Program

Borrowing to Save Energy: An Assessment of Energy-Efficiency Financing Programs

Update on the Implementation of AB 32: Cap and Trade in Focus

New Vehicle Characteristics and the Cost of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standard

Flexible Mandates for Investment in New Technology

Secular Trends, Environmental Regulations, and Electricity Markets

Policy Monitor: U.S. Experience with Transferable Development Rights

Optimal spatial control of biological invasions

How Should Support for Climate-Friendly Technologies Be Designed?

Emissions Targets and the Real Business Cycle

Ex Post Evaluation of Forest Conservation Policies Using Remote Sensing Data: An Introduction and Practical Guide

Harnessing Renewable Energy in Electric Power Systems

Reflecting its reliance on fossil fuels, the electric power industry produces the majority of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. The need for a revolution in the industry becomes further apparent given that "decarbonization" means an increasing electrification of other sectors of the economy?in particular, through a switch from gasoline to electric vehicles. Of the options for producing electric power without significant greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy is most attractive to policymakers, as it promises increased national self-reliance on energy supplies and the creation of new industries and jobs, without the safety and political concerns of nuclear power or the unproven technology of carbon capture and storage. Drawing on both economic theory and the experiences of the United States and EU member states, Harnessing Renewable Energy addresses the key questions surrounding renewable energy policies. How appropriate is the focus on renewable power as a primary tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions? If renewable energy is given specific support, what form should that support take? What are the implications for power markets if renewable generation is widely adopted? Thorough and well-evidenced, this book will be of interest to a broad range of policymakers, the electric power industry, and economists who study energy and environmental issues.

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Ex Post Evaluation of Forest Conservation Policies Using Remote Sensing Data: An Introduction and Practical Guide

Improving Fuel Economy in Heavy-Duty Vehicles

Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Land Use: Comparing Three Federal Policies

Putting a Floor on Energy Savings: Comparing State Energy Efficiency Resource Standards

Energy Efficiency Resource Standards: Economics and Policy

Short-Run Allocation of Emissions Allowances and Long-Term Goals for Climate Policy

What Have We Learnt from the European Union?s Emissions Trading System?

Retail Electricity Price Savings from Compliance Flexibility in GHG Standards for Stationary Sources

Social Safety Nets and US Climate Policy Costs

Soft and Hard Price Collars in a Cap-and-Trade System: A Comparative Analysis

Rethinking Environmental Federalism in a Warming World

Tradable Standards for Clean Air Act Carbon Policy

Zoning on the Urban Fringe: Results from a New Approach to Modeling Land and Housing Markets

Policy Monitor: U.S. Experience with Transferable Development Rights

Climate Policy Design with Correlated Uncertainties in Offset Supply and Abatement Cost

Testing for Avoidance of Environmental Obligations

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