Energy Affordability & the Green Transition
The poor tend to be impacted disproportionately by the pollution and climate change impacts of energy production, so a greener energy sector ought to mitigate those impacts. Many analysts contend that when social costs are included, the full cost of a green energy system may by lower than the full costs of the existing system. On the other hand, to the extent that a green transition increases the out-of-pocket price paid for energy (or housing or transportation), or rewards “behind the meter” generation and efficiency investments, the transition could hurt those who lack the means to cover those costs or make those investments. These conversations discuss scholarship that addresses those issues.
Conversations
Energy Poverty and the Green Transition
Dana Harmon
Executive Director, Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute
The Distributional Effects of Distributed Generation
Shelley Welton
Assistant Professor of Law, Univ. of South Carolina
The Best Route to Net-Zero Emissions
Jesse Jenkins
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Net Metering & the Value of Distributed Solar Generation
Joel Eisen & Shelley Welton
Prof. Eisen is at Univ. of Richmond Law School and Prof. Welton is at Univ. of South Carolina School of Law
California's Energy Transition: Decarbonization and Decentralization
Michael Wara
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment & Fellow, Stanford Law School
Tinkering with Energy Tradeoffs Online
Joshua Rhodes
Research Associate, University of Texas Energy Institute
Economic Growth, Inequality & Decarbonization
Carey King
Research Scientist and Assistant Directory, University of Texas Energy Institute
Modeling Decarbonization in the West
Arne Olson
Senior Partner, E3
June 12, 2019
Energy Poverty, Energy Burden and Rooftop Solar
Victoria Mandell
GRID Alternatives Colorado
June, 2019
Energy Justice
Sanya Carley
Professor, Indiana University O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs
July, 2019
How to Value Distributed Resources
Scott Burger
Analytics Lead, Form Energy & Lecturer, MIT Center for Environmental Policy Research
October 3, 2019
Carbon Taxes: The Evolving Conventional Wisdom
Sheila Olmstead
Professor of Public Policy, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
January 23, 2020
Just Transitions
Anne Eisenberg
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law
February 13, 2020
Renewable Natural Gas & A Decarbonized Energy Future
Michael Webber
Josey Centennial Professor of Energy Resources, University of Texas, and Chief Science & Technology Officer, ENGIE
March 27, 2020