Below are selected reports written by members of our team. Links are included to view the full versions.
New Release: Decarbonizing Virginia's Economy: Pathways to 2050
Recent policy initiatives in Virginia reflect an increased urgency in addressing the state’s contribution to global warming. We analyze quantitatively and comprehensively the actions needed to make Virginia's economy carbon neutral by 2050.
The Soft Costs of Distributed Solar: Best Practice Recommendations for Cost Reduction
We review existing soft costs of adopting distributed solar in the united states. Reducing these costs will play a key role in building a carbon-free economy.
Clean Dispatchable Power Sources
We review technologies that can potentially help Virginia cost-effectively reach net zero carbon energy. We summarize how they function and their development path, assess and compare them along multiple criteria, and provide recommendations for how Virginia should move forward.
Clean Energy Legislation
We evaluate existing laws and regulations that will either aid or hinder Virginia in meeting its decarbonization targets. We also assess several clean-energy policy initiatives, including regulatory innovations in Virginia and other states.
Negative Emissions: Deployment Implications
We examine energy, water, and land use tradeoffs from three NETs (afforestation, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, and direct air capture).
Negative Emissions Technologies Modeling
We discuss difficulties of modeling Negative Emissions Technologies to study climate change mitigation strategies, and provide insight into how to better do so.
Price-Responsive Supply in Environmental Markets
We evaluate instrument design and the evolution of environmental pricing in a sequential policy environment. We find a price-responsive supply schedule offers multiple advantages
The Effects of “Non-binding” Price Floors
We theoretically investigate the effects of hard and soft price floors in the stochastic, competitive storage model.
Emission Market Design: California Allowances
We use experiments to examine the effects of California’s greenhouse gas emissions controls, and find that they have the potential to cause higher price variability and market manipulation.
Collars for Stabilizing Allowance Prices
We discuss the effects of price and quantity “collars” on emission allowance experiments with random firm-specific and market-level structural shocks.
Issues in Decentralized Resource Governance
We discuss the importance of environmental federalism, spillovers, and linked socio-ecological systems on decentralized resource governance.