The Energy Institute at Haas is hiring an Office Manager.
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The UK is taking an important step towards energy affordability that California should emulate. They are moving policy costs off of electric bills and on to the government budget. We suggested this for CA 5 years ago.
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To those who didn't like Lucas Davis's post today on consumer savings from shale gas, because it only briefly mentions that calculations exclude negative enviromental cost: Facts are the beginning (and foundation) of a useful policy discussion, not the end.
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Severin Borenstein
Severin Borenstein
Can't think of a more plausible theory of why Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche believes you need to show ID to get into a restaurant.
Jim Sallee's EI blog about his important new paper w Koichiro Ito and Andrew Smith showing large international spillovers of fuel economy standards. Japan car makers redesigned cars for their own standards and ended up saving US buyers a lot of gasoline.
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I agree govt buying Spirit is a bad idea. But *this* is where GOP Congress members take a stand?!? Obviously, they have a very different idea of the most egregious departures from conservative ideals. How about free speech, free trade, Fed independence?
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Hey @pacificgaselectric , why every month do I get an email saying "Your PG&E Energy Statement is Ready to View" but when I login will only show me total owed and a message that the detailed bill won't be ready until the next day? It's almost as if PG&E doesn't want me to look at my detailed bill.
Severin Borenstein
This, just a couple of weeks after we were told Europe is about to run out of jet fuel. It turns out that markets are pretty good at reallocating supplies to where they fetch the highest price.
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Severin Borenstein
In this week's EI blog post, Meredith Fowlie sorts out the changes being proposed as part of California's extension of its cap and trade, er, cap and invest 🙄 program, and some of the tradeoffs they highlight.
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World has lost 10-15m bbl/day and started war w aggregate stocks of about 10b bbl. There won't be a stockout, but as stocks are drawn down, they become more valuable and prices rise. There's a limit to how long Trump can jawbone prices down as stocks fall.
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Severin Borenstein
Households could see around £145 a year in policy costs cut from energy bills in April under measures announced in the Chancellor’s Budget.
About $200 billion annually since 2007, according to a new Energy Institute working paper. The war in Iran has pushed up natural gas prices in most of the world. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices …
