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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — It’s a futuristic idea that’s fast approaching. Self-driving autonomous cars are an early focus of the Darrell Steinberg administration. Sacramento city leaders have applied for a first ever permit to allow testing of driverless vehicles on city streets. The application with the U.S. Department of Transportation will designate approved cities as “proving […]
NEPTUNE Program Review at UC Davis
Date: November 1-3, 2016 Location: University of California, Davis Event Type: Invitation Only Description: The Naval Enterprise Partnership Teaming with Universities for National Excellence (NEPTUNE) is a pilot program of the U.S. Office of Naval Research providing multi-million dollar funding to six universities (Arizona State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue, The Naval Academy, The […]
Policy Fellow Workshop #3: Ensuring High Performance Buildings through a Skilled Workforce
Date: August 18, 2016 Location: University of California, Davis Event Type: Invitation Only Description: The UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center (EEC) and former Senior Policy Fellow Nancy Skinner organized three workshops between April and August 2016 on key energy topics. This workshop brought together stakeholders and experts, including policy makers, regulators, academics, labor representatives, utilities, and workforce […]
Policy Fellow Workshop #2: Integrating Transportation and Electricity to Reduce Carbon Impact
Date: July 27, 2016 Location: Berkeley, CA Event Type: Invitation Only Description: The UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center (EEC) and former Senior Policy Fellow Nancy Skinner organized three workshops between April and August 2016 on key energy topics. This workshop brought together thirty stakeholders and experts, including representatives from automakers, regulatory agencies, electric vehicle charging firms, […]
Policy Fellow Workshop #1: Using Data to Cut Building Energy & Increase Building Energy Efficiency
Date: April 18, 2016 Location: San Francisco, CA Event Type: Invitation Only Description: The UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center (EEC) and former Senior Policy Fellow Nancy Skinner organized three workshops between April and August 2016 on key energy topics. This workshop brought together thirty stakeholders and experts, including commercial property managers, building operators, brokers, energy service […]
Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Evidence from Chicago Microdata
Published December 8, 2015 by Evan Hernstadt and Erich Muehlegger. View the abstract.Return to the Papers listing. | Download the paper. A large and growing literature documents the adverse impacts of pollution on health, productivity, educational attainment and socioeconomic outcomes. This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence that air pollution casually affects criminal activity. We exploit […]
From Cradle to Junkyard: Assessing the life cycle Greenhouse Gas Benefits of Electric Vehicles
Published August 25, 2015 by David Rapson. View the abstract.Return to the Papers listing | Download the paper. U.S. programs subsidize electric vehicles (EVs) in part to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We model a suite of life cycle GHG emissions considerations to estimate the GHG abatement potential from switching from an internal combustion engine […]
Utilization and Customer Behavior: Smart Choices for the Smart Grid
Published May 3, 2015 by Jeremy B. Smith. View the abstract.Return to the Papers listing. | Download the paper. The smart grid offers a wide array of opportunities to improve efficiency of the electricity grid via load management policies. This chapter reviews the current state of knowledge in the economics literature as it relates to time-varying […]
Overlapping Environmental Policies and the Impact on Pollution
Published April 29, 2015 by Kevin Novan. View the abstract.Return to the Papers listing. | Download the paper. In an effort to reduce pollution from the electricity sector, governments are heavily subsidizing renewables. The subsidies, however, are not being used in isolation. Instead, they are often provided in regions where certain pollutants are regulated by […]
Commercial and Industrial Demand Response Under Mandatory Time-of-Use Electricity Pricing
Published March 17, 2015 by David Rapson. View the abstract.Return to the Papers listing. | Download the paper. This paper is the first to evaluate the impact of a large-scale field deployment of mandatory time-of-use (TOU) pricing on the energy use of commercial and industrial firms. The regulation imposes higher user prices during hours when […]
