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Sivaram, Varun. “The Dark Side of Solar: How the rising solar industry empowers political interests that could impede a clean energy transition,” 2018.Abstract

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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.
“Evolving the RPS: A Clean Peak Standard for a Smarter Renewable Future,” 2016.Abstract
Executive Summary
Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) have been fundamental to jump-starting the renewable energy (RE) industry, accounting for over 60% of the growth in RE generation since 2000. However, the simple MWhbased approach used by traditional RPS policies does not differentiate between each renewable MWh based on its value to the grid or for reducing fuel consumption. Already some states are experiencing challenges as renewable energy production during certain times is beginning to provide diminished value in terms of reduced fuel consumption or capacity contribution. As states continue to achieve their RPS
goals and reach increasingly higher levels of RE penetration, new approaches will likely be needed to guard against diminishing returns of a simple MWh based approach.
Hogan, William W. “Western Energy Imbalance Market: An Efficient Market with Conflicting Carbon Policies.” EIM Body of State Regulators, 2018.
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Klein, Abram. “Competitive Electricity Markets: Weening Markets from Rent-Seeking Subsidies and Capacity Markets.” In Nodal Trader Conference,. New York, NY, October 26, 2017, 2017. Publisher's VersionAbstract
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Klein, Abram W. "Competitive Electricity Markets: Weening Markets from Rent-Seeking Subsidies and Capacity Markets," presented at Nodal Trader Conference, New York, NY, October 26, 2017
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.
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Farkash-Hacohen, Orit. “The Power Game - Facing a Gas Monopoly: ,” 2018.Abstract

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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.

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