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    • Regulatory Instruments for Deployment of Clean Energy Technologies 

      Pérez-Arriaga, Ignacio J. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2009-07)
      Answering to the formidable challenge of climate change calls for a quick transition to a future economy with a drastic reduction in GHG emissions. And this in turn requires the development and massive deployment of new ...

    • Nuclear Fuel Recycling - the Value of the Separated Transuranics and the Levelized Cost of Electricity 

      Parsons, John E.; de Roo, Guillaume (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2009-09)
      We analyze the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for three different fuel cycles: a Once-Through Cycle, in which the spent fuel is sent for disposal after one use in a reactor, a Twice-Through Cycle, in which the spent ...

    • Uncertain Outcomes and Climate Change Policy 

      Pindyck, Robert S. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2009-08)
      Focusing on tail effects, I incorporate distributions for temperature change and its economic impact in an analysis of climate change policy. I estimate the fraction of consumption w_(_ ) that society would be willing to ...