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Harrison Fell @HarrisonGFell

Energy/Environmental Economist; Professor at NCSU; overwhelmed parent

Joined April 2019
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I always looked at REPEAT/Rhodium analysis as best case scenario wrt clean cap additions. Lots of hard-to-model incentives and barriers that need to be overcome to reach those massive cap addn predictions
Brian Deese@BrianCDeese
21 Feb 2024
This chart is keeping me up at night.
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The DOE is sticking to the “deliver ability” part of the 3 pillars: energy.gov/sites/default/fil… Despite claims of an overwhelming consensus backing the 3 pillars, deliverability makes the $3/kg subsidy hard to justify: nber.org/papers/w31902
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There is a strong push for deliverability restrictions in H2 subsidies: canarymedia.com/articles/hyd… However, our new WP (w/ Stephen Holland and Andy Yates) presents some evidence for why we it's hard to justify our H2 subsidies if we do: nber.org/papers/w31902
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Getting a new waterheater (wh). 1st person suggests heatpump(hp) wh. 2nd guy says crawlspace is too small to install a hp wh that meets code. Both gave tankless quotes that r not eligible for IRA-tax credits. Punchline-I have no idea how much energy efficiency IRA will deliver.
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via @NYTimes my son is really into parkour and I’m really into all things energy - finally our worlds collide nytimes.com/video/world/euro…

Video: Parkour Athletes Jump to Switch Off Wasteful Lights in Paris

Young athletes in French cities are practicing the sport of Parkour — which consists of running, climbing and jumping over urban obstacles — to turn off shop signs at night in an effort to fight...

nytimes.com
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Not sure I buy Duke here either, but option value is real. W/ high price volatility it’s a bigger deal. Big energy system models don’t generally pick up uncert. that drives opt. val. Would be interesting to see if cost/effic. uncertainties will delay clean energy deployment
Tyler Norris
@tylerhnorris
19 Aug 2022
Actual line from testimony just filed by 2nd largest US utility: “accelerating solar deployments based on today’s tech could crowd out future, unknown solar or other technologies that are more efficient or more cost-effective than today’s solar.” Not the Onion, folks.
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This paper seems extremely timely given the analyses of the Inflation Reduction Act coming out that show significant reductions in transportation sector emissions
JAERE@JaereAere
4 Aug 2022
⚡ Just accepted ⚡ in @JaereAere: "Correcting Estimates of Electric Vehicle Emissions Abatement: Implications for Climate Policy" by Erich Muehlegger (@ErichMuehlegger) and David Rapson (@RapsonEnergy). Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
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Some important changes in the Market Stability Reserve of EU-ETS announced by EC yesterday. Specifically, the release of permits from the reserve will now be price-based instead of allowances-in-circulation based, a move @_PierreNoel_ suggested: energypolicy.columbia.edu/re…
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Hope they rollout in a way that allows estimates of how fixed pricing affects vmt. If my calc is right, the break-even annual miles one would have to go is pretty close to ⁦@RapsonEnergy⁩ est of avg annual vmt’s for EVs utilitydive.com/news/duke-ma…

Duke may offer some EV customers ‘all you can charge’ for just $19.99/month (restrictions apply)

Duke Energy wants to offer North Carolina residential customers a flat-fee EV charging subscription, in exchange for control over when the charger is used.

utilitydive.com
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Saw a few posts on EPIC/RhG study. Low solar/wind costs make ben-to-cost of PTC/ITC quite high now. OTH, emiss reduction is small (13% below BaU). I suspect cost effectiveness of PTC/ITC falls as we get larger emiss cuts epic.uchicago.edu/area-of-fo…

Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Clean Electricity Tax Credits

Michael Greenstone, Bogdan Mukhametkaliev, Jared Stolove University of Chicago John Larsen, Ben King, Hannah Kolus, Whitney Herndon Rhodium Group Building on previous modeling conducted by the...

epic.uchicago.edu
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Of course my son’s school would have a snow day on the day I present at #ASSA2022. Et tu 2022
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CGEP is hiring! The JOE ad was just posted. Looking for early-career & new PhD econs. If you're doing energy/enviro research, with an eye toward having a real policy impact, please apply. aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?J…

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Also, please feel free to send me an email if you'd like some more info on the positions and CGEP more generally.
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Me: how did your lego figures get up there? 6yo: I put them up there. Me: How? 6yo: I climbed up the wall. So I live w/ Spiderman
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So it's not all bad news: BBB w/o CEPP gets us some significant reductions and they model CEPP under very generous terms (no gaming, all grant $'s going to new clean energy)
Jesse D. Jenkins
@JesseJenkins
20 Oct 2021
Can pending Congressional legislation deliver Biden's #ClimateAction goals as #COP26 nears? Will losing the CEPP be a fatal blow? How far on the path to net-zero can we get? REPEAT Project from Princeton ZERO Lab & @evolved_energy out today has answers @ repeatproject.org
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Michael Bennet
@MichaelBennet
19 Oct 2021
We need to put a price on carbon and hold corporate polluters accountable. RT if you're on board.
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Much written about the role of low wind gen (down about 20% ytd in some countries) in Europe’s high electricity prices for 2021. That made me wonder how volatile wind gen is in the U.S., so I took a look at plant-level wind gen data from EIA 923. 🧵1/6
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So, yes, wind gen in US is prone to similarly large swings in productivity as what we're seeing in Europe, underscoring the need for long-term storage. 5/6
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Wind variability is also important for #CEPP. LSE’s that meet CEPP targets w/ wind PPA’s may find clean energy rates varying considerably year-to-year. Underscores the need for a liquid clean energy credit market. More on that in this recent CGEP Q&A.bit.ly/3zs8iFI
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