Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Reports: Recent submissions
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Electricity Generation and Emissions Reduction Decisions under Policy Uncertainty: A General Equilibrium Analysis
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2014-04)The electric power sector, which accounts for approximately 40% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, will be a critical component of any policy the U.S. government pursues to confront climate change. In the context of uncertainty ... -
A Self-Consistent Method to Assess Air Quality Co-Benefits from US Climate Policies
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2014-04)Air quality co-benefits can potentially reduce the costs of greenhouse gas mitigation. However, while many studies of the cost of greenhouse gas mitigation model the full macroeconomic welfare impacts, most studies of air ... -
Characterization of the Wind Power Resource in Europe and its Intermittency
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2014-03)Wind power is assessed over Europe, with special attention given to the quantification of intermittency. Using the methodology developed in Gunturu and Schlosser (2011), the MERRA boundary flux data was used to compute ...
