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2018
Weiss, Jurgen. “ "The Electrified Future Is Shared: Mobility Services and Electrification's Pace, Shape."” Public Utilities Fortnightly, 2018. Publisher's VersionAbstract
The article examines the potential impacts of new mobility services such as ride sharing and ride hailing on the speed and depth of electrification of personal transportation. The article explores how a shift of transportation towards shared mobility services might accelerate electrification of transportation if mobility service providers switch to EVs more rapidly than individual car owners.
Hogan, William W. “ELECTRICITY MARKET DESIGN The Value of FTRs .” In, 2018. Publisher's Version
Knake, Robert. “CINET: Building a Resilient Network for Critical Infrastructure .” In 92nd Plenary Session, 2018. cinet_for_harvard_event.pdf
Ramey, Todd. “Cybersecurity Challenges for a Changing Electric Industry .” In 92nd Plenary Session, 2018. hepg_ramey_final.pdf
Miettinen, Pasi. “Future of Utilities .” In 92nd Plenary Session, 2018. miettinen-future_of_utilities-10.05.2018.pdf
Nelson, Bob. “EVOLVING UTILITY COST ALLOCATION ISSUES: A CONSUMER VIEW .” In 92nd Plenary Session, 2018. nelson-evolving_utility_cost_allocation_issues-10.05.18_.pdf
Chapman, Bruce. “Vanilla Class, Tutti Frutti Customers .” In 92nd Plenary Session, 2018. chapman-vanilla_classs-10.05.2018.pdf
Farkash-Hacohen, Orit. “The Power Game - Facing a Gas Monopoly: ,” 2018.Abstract

In 2015, the Israeli government approved a controversial deal with a US-Israeli partnership that controlled virtually all the natural gas supply in Israel--at great cost to the Israeli public. Central to the controversy was the political decision not to interfere with a provision--in the most significant gas agreement to the Israeli public to date--that sets artificially high gas prices and represents excess costs of billions of shekels over the 17-year lifetime of the deal.

View the press release here.

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Borenstein, Severin, and James Bushnell. “Do Two Electricity Pricing Wrongs Make a Right? Cost Recovery, Externalities, and Efficiency Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell September 2018,” 2018. borenstein_do_two_electricity_pricing_wrongs_make_a_right.pdf
Regulatory Treatment of Risk: Management and Allocation
Brown, Ashley. “Regulatory Treatment of Risk: Management and Allocation.” In, 2018.Abstract

Regulatory Conference 

BRASILIA, DF, BRAZIL

June 18, 2018

Ashley C. Brown

Executive Director, Harvard Electricity Policy Group

Harvard Kennedy School

Harvard University

brasiliariskalloc061818.pdf
Distributed Solar Generation: Value & Pricing, A North American Perspective
Brown, Ashley. “Distributed Solar Generation: Value & Pricing, A North American Perspective.” In DISTRIBUTED SOLAR GENERATION: VALUE AND PRICING A NORTH AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE, 2018.Abstract

 
ANEEL SEMINAR ON DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES

Brasilia, DF, Brazil
June 21, 2018

Ashley C. Brown
Executive Director, Harvard Electricity Policy Group
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard University

brasilia062118-solar.pdf
Resource Selection: Coherent Policy Objectives, Flights of Fancy, or just serving special interests
Brown, Ashley. “Resource Selection: Coherent Policy Objectives, Flights of Fancy, or just serving special interests.” In RESOURCE SELECTION: COHERENT POLICY OBJECTIVES, FLIGHTS OF FANTASY, OR JUST SERVING SPECIAL INTERESTS?, 2018.Abstract

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS
Western Conference
Boise, Idaho
June 4, 2018 

Ashley C. Brown
Executive Director, Harvard Electricity Policy Group
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard University

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Hogan, William W. “Western Energy Imbalance Market: an Efficient Market with Conflicting Carbon Policies.” In, 2018.Abstract
Hogan, William. Western Energy Imbalance Market: an Efficient Market with Conflicting Carbon Policies (January 8, 2018)
hogan_eim_010818.pdf
Ghesla, Claus, Manuel Grieder, and Renate Schubert. “Nudging the Poor and the Rich – A Field Study on the Distributional Effects of Green Electricity Defaults .” In, 2018.Abstract
Choice defaults are an increasingly popular public policy tool. Yet there is little knowledge of the distributional consequences of such nudges for different groups in society. We report results from a field study in the residential electricity market in which we contrast consumers’ contract choices under an existing default regime with active choices without any default. We find that the default is successful at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, but it leads poorer households to pay more for their electricity consumption than they would want to, while leaving a significant willingness to pay for green electricity by richer households untapped.
nudging_poor_rich.pdf
The Dark Side of Solar: How the rising solar industry empowers political interests that could impede a clean energy transition
Sivaram, Varun. “The Dark Side of Solar: How the rising solar industry empowers political interests that could impede a clean energy transition,” 2018.Abstract
Sivaram, Varun. The Dark Side of Solar: How the rising solar industry empowers political interests that could impede a clean energy transition; Brookings, April 2018.
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