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 […]
Strategic Policy Choice in State-Level Regulation: The EPA’s Clean Power Plan
Published December 2, 2014 by James B. Bushnell. View the abstract.Return to the Papers listing. | Download the paper. Flexibility in environmental regulations can lead to reduced costs if it allows additional abatement from lower cost sources or if policy tailoring and experimentation across states increases regulatory efficiency. The EPA’s 2014 Clean Power Plan, which […]
The U.S. Electricity Industry after 20 Years of Restructuring
Published September 1, 2014 by James Bushnell. View the abstract.Return to the Papers listing. | Download the paper. Prior to the 1990s, most electricity customers in the U.S. were served by regulated, vertically-integrated, monopoly utilities that handled electricity generation, transmission, local distribution and billing/collections. Regulators set retail electricity prices to allow the utility to recover […]
Smart Schools Symposium: Energy Retrofits & New Funding Options
Date: September 5, 2013 Location: University of California, Davis Event Type: Invitation Only Description: The UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center, California Lighting Technology Center, Western Cooling Efficiency Center, and Greenwise Joint Venture partnered to present this one-day symposium on proven best practices for lighting and HVAC updates. Representatives from K-12 schools across Northern California engaged in […]
Arthur H. Rosenfeld Chair In Energy Efficiency
Arthur H. Rosenfeld Chair In Energy Efficiency (2012) The Arthur H. Rosenfeld Chair was endowed by more than 70 individuals and organizations. Major donors included Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Sempra Energy, California Edison, the California Clean Energy Fund, Chevron, ClimateWorks Foundation, Exelon Corporation, Goldman Sachs, Power Integrations Inc., and Wendy and Eric Schmidt. Dr. […]
Retrofitting Corporate Campuses
Date: November 8-9, 2011 Location: University of California, Davis Event Type: Invitation Only Description: This forum addressed the particular needs, goals, and challenges of corporate campuses. It provided an opportunity for stakeholders, including facility managers, policy makers, and researchers, to share strategies and solutions for increasing energy efficiency on corporate campuses. Event Materials: N/A