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New policies aimed at increasing energy affordability could make prices worse. ⚡🏠 In a recent If/Then blog, RFF research finds that rolling back clean energy incentives could create more volatility in energy markets and raise costs. Read more: www.resources.org/common-resou...

Calling all transit fans! Let your voice be heard. 🚇   🗳️ Vote on the exterior design for our new 8000-series rail fleet! Voting will close at 11:59 PM on August 22. Winning concept will be announced next week.    Vote before time runs out: wmata.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey...

Insightful @ucenergyinstitute.bsky.social post from @severinborenstein.bsky.social on California refineries. It'll get you up to speed on the facts, opportunities, and tensions as the California legislative session begins this week. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/c... Great opening figure!

Spent so much time writing about clean air act repeal that I forgot to replace my air purifiers! We are going the direct air capture route because the actors below refuse to install scrubbers.

New paper from EPRI and Epoch AI: Frontier AI training runs are projected to consume 1-2 gigawatts each by 2028 and exceed 4 GW per run by 2030 (up from ~100-150 MW today)

all my homies live in a low dimensional feature subspace

New blog post with my colleague on how new policy decisions expose fossil dependent grids to greater electricity price uncertainty. www.resources.org/common-resou...

For those curious about the impacts of EPAs Carbon Pollution Standard repeal. www.rff.org/publications... TLDR: - health + climate damages > savings in compliance costs - health damages outweigh compliance cost savings 2-4x. - health + climate damages outweigh compliance cost savings 4-8x.

State carbon markets are the policy laboratory for US climate policy we all should be watching. Especially as we watch federal support for carbon emissions reductions evaporate.

Federal climate action is slowing, but states are using emissions trading systems to cut emissions and raise state revenue. RFF Research Associate Nicholas Roy explains how in this new In Focus video 👇

What does the One Big "Beautiful" Bill mean for the US energy transition, household and business energy costs, electricity supplies and emissions? We've published a quick summary report of our findings here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #OBBB 🔌💡

This Op-Ed on a U.S. carbon tariff gets lots of basic stuff wrong. Unlike authors' claims, a U.S. carbon tariff 1. Won't address PRC competition 2. Either raises lots of revenue or lowers GHGs (not both) 3. Weakens incentives to adopt domestic U.S. climate policy. 🧵 1/ #econsky #climatesky

I agree with all of Kyle’s critiques and would add 2 more: 1. The piece cites Australia and Canada as countries where voters rejected carbon prices, but that’s not true. In AUS it’s called a “safeguard mechanism” and was put in place in 2023. CAN kept the price for industries the focus of the piece

Senate Finance text is out. Solar and wind out by 2028 except one weird carveout. Batteries keep full ITC /PTC and expanded component eligibility in 45X? (Text keeps transferability but gets rid of 5-year MACRS depreciation on *all* zero-emissions tech. Bad for clean firm!)

Read the full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt5665 Or the two-page summary: restservice.epri.com/publicattach... Or the tl;dr thread: bsky.app/profile/bist... @aafawcett.bsky.social @jessedjenkins.com @nicholasroy.me @aliciaszhao.bsky.social

With @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social's budget out, CA cap-and-trade reauthorization is fully underway. Today, we release a UCSB emLab analysis showing how C&T revenue can significantly lower California's too-high retail electricity prices. Exec summary, paper, online calculator below. Short 🧵1/

UCSB researchers just released a great analysis of how to use the state's cap-and-trade program revenues to invest in energy affordability. 1 pager, policy brief, and online calculator are all great tools! emlab.ucsb.edu/projects/usi...

Great thread unraveling right now that is breaking down the political history of California's cap-and-trade and how we got to today's reauthorization.

Many are saying the current reconciliation proposal is equivalent to a full repeal of the IRA. We analyzed the repeal of clean electricity tax credits in an earlier issue brief. Household, fiscal, and emissions impacts all included! www.rff.org/publications...

The ways and means adjustment to IRA clean electricity tax credits are out. Phaseout of tax credits begins in 2029-2032. Modeling coming soon. waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u...

github.com/macroenergy/... Cool model for those interested in macro-energy systems modeling!

This is the best technical source for the premature discussions on the Iberian blackout that I've seen. This professional is fair minded and he puts the blame on the N-2 generation failures and the islanding while also saying inertia was not the issue www.linkedin.com/posts/luisba...

Cool, now do GHG emissions (or at least CO2)

office is fairly busy for a monday morning!

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Federalism </3

Last week, we published modeling of potential repeal of the clean energy tax credits in the IRA. We display changes regionally across the US, retail rate effects, and the emissions outcomes. Retail electricity rates could rise between 6-10% in the next 10 years. www.rff.org/publications...

Here is a graph from the report that shows the emissions pathways of the different policy options. A 100% clean standard might not reach zero emissions. This is due to temporal leakage! Fossil power can still supply MD under a 100% clean standard if there are clean energy credits to cover it.

For those interested in Marylands current legislative efforts to acheive 100% clean electricity, check out this report my coauthors and I released last week! We compare the renewable portfolio standard to a clean electricity standard and an emissions intensity standard www.rff.org/publications...

It's unfortunate that carbon pricing was ever debated as an alternative to industrial policy. If sequenced correctly, the two are mutually reinforcing. A given price works better with commercial substitutes, public subsidies to capex, and active public structuring of and participation in markets.

An interactive analysis from @zachwhitlock.bsky.social on public climate funding announced for specific republican congressional districts. This is a great tool for those interested in informing decision makers and constituents what could be lost with budget cuts! open.substack.com/pub/zachwhit...

This should be played at low volume in all office speakers from 8:30am-5:30pm www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnD...

Today we announced the initial research portfolio for Resilient Energy Economies, 22 policy-focused projects that will contribute to the economic strategies of fossil fuel-reliant communities across the USA. Please check them out! www.resilientenergyeconomies.org/grants

I thought gulf of America wouldn’t affect me but it’s weird to watch maps on your continent change.

personally I think Kendrick should have looked directly into the camera and changed the lyrics of "Not Like Us" into a political treatise explaining his exact position on both separation of powers and the immortal science of dialectical materialism. missed opportunity tbh

Kendrick really looked at the camera, smiled and said "Hey Drake" lmao

Finally boomers plugged into legacy media get to find out about the most important pop culture moment of the decade. This will do so much for me when it comes to office Super Bowl chat next week. Bummer all the things left out of this podcast about the beef. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/p...

Come intern with us at @rff.org! We are accepting applications for our annual PAID summer internship program in Washington, DC. And one position will be working with me on tax policy related to critical minerals development. Please share! www.rff.org/careers/summ...

Kitties got spayed today!

Amending that these programs probably won’t link until 2027 at the earliest. Though how Washington and California rule-making evolves leading up to linkage is equally interesting!

State-level climate policy will likely take centerstage in 2025. Nick Roy is looking to Washington and California to lead the way—particularly through the potential linkage of their carbon markets, which charge emitters for the greenhouse gases that they release into the atmosphere. 🔽

I mean... art is sooooooooooo back. Not only are all three awarded for certified bangers, but they are committed to producing authentic and personal music. #Grammys

I am getting ads from the government of Ontario reminding me that it is a major trading partner for the US on youtube videos about tarriffs..

Big day for Kendrick nerds! open.spotify.com/episode/24nN...

Help! My kitten is summoning demons

Singing "Ribs" by Lorde to my cat and dancing around my apartment as a pregame to going out

Moratorium on offshore wind leasing is here. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Today at 1 Eastern! Join the Resilient Energy Economies virtual "brownbag" to learn from @eleanorkrause.bsky.social about the impacts of coal's decline on local labor forces: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Lots of MAGA at the Sacramento Airport flight to DC