"[The Scrubgrass Power plant in Kennerdell, Pennsylvania] was on its way to be phased out (yay) until a cryptominer bought it and moved in their GPUs." Max Auffhammer with the latest on the impact of bitcoin mining. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/sav… via Energy Institute at Haas

Saving Coal - One Bitcoin at a Time energyathaas.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/sav… via Energy Institute at Haas

New Energy Institute Working Paper: Accelerating Transmission Expansion by Using Advanced Conductors in Existing Right-of-Way - by Emilia Chojkiewicz, Umed Paliwal, Nikit Abhyankar, Casey Baker, Ric O'Connell, Duncan Callaway, and Amol Phadke haas.berkeley.edu/energy-institu…

"One large consideration must be timing, said James Bushnell...Washington’s carbon market doesn’t expire and California and Quebec’s will in 2030, if it is not renewed." The Seattle Times seattletimes.com/seattle-news/e…

More from Energy Institute at Haas on the strong and enduring correlation between ideology and EV ownership in US. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2023/11/06/pol…

New Energy Institute Blog Post: Political Ideology and U.S. Electric Vehicle Adoption - by Lucas Davis energyathaas.wordpress.com/2023/11/06/pol…

'Publicly owned utilities are 'not a panacea'. They might be better in many cases...it is easy to oversell them with the idea that the power company will finally operate in the public interest if it is just owned by the public.' Severin Borenstein 🇺🇦 The Seattle Times washingtonpost.com/business/2023/…

'I think they’re perfectly happy to have [Washington] join...I don’t know if they’re willing to bend over backwards to change their own market to make it look more like Washington but there’s reasonable middle ground there.' Jim Bushnell The Seattle Times seattletimes.com/seattle-news/e…

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"The study found a significant — and potentially intensifying — correlation between a state’s concentration of Democratic voters and its share of electric vehicle sales." Prof. Lucas Davis' recent EV paper/blog referenced POLITICO politico.com/newsletters/ca…

"'I would echo the caveat from the authors that these analyses tell us mostly about older EVs. It will be interesting in future work to examine driving patterns for newer EVs' Lucas Davis, who wrote a separate study, tells me via email." Axios axios.com/2023/11/07/ele…

New Energy Institute Blog Post: What’s a Fair Electricity Bill? Severin Borenstein 🇺🇦 berkeley.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=…

A group of California legislators want to slow down the CPUC's implementation of an income graduated fixed charge. sarah borenstein responds. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2023/11/13/wha… via Energy Institute at Haas

'Joining us to help us better understand why PG&E keeps raising its rates and turning to its customers with more hikes is Meredith Fowlie, Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley’s Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.' CapRadio News capradio.org/news/insight/2…

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