Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research: Recent submissions

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    • Comparing the Costs of Intermittent and Dispatchable Electricity Generating Technologies 

      Joskow, Paul L. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2010-09)
      Economic evaluations of alternative electric generating technologies typically rely on comparisons between their expected life-cycle production costs per unit of electricity supplied. The standard life-cycle cost metric ...

    • Fat Tails, Thin Tails, and Climate Change Policy 

      Pindyck, Robert S. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2010-09)
      Climate policy is complicated by the considerable compounded uncertainties over the costs and benefits of abatement. We don’t even know the probability distributions for future temperatures and impacts, making cost-benefit ...

    • Towards an Emissions Trading Scheme for Air Pollutants in India 

      Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Pande, Rohini; Ryan, Nicholas (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2010-08)
      Emissions trading schemes have great potential to lower pollution while minimizing compliance costs for firms in many areas now subject to traditional command-and-control regulation. This paper connects experience with ...