Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) State Support for Offshore Wind? Here’s Why the Bill Won’t Necessarily End Up with You (January 31, 2025)

[Renewable auctions] do not necessarily mean the government will end up subsidizing [wind] developers (translated from Danish).

RTO Insider National Grid Backs out of Twin States Clean Energy Link Project (March 5, 2024)

Existing power market structures do not provide enough incentives for forward-looking transmission investments that would provide long-term benefits.

RTO Insider Québec, New England See Shifting Role for Canadian Hydropower (February 25, 2024)

What our study shows is that in the long term, we should think of [reservoir hydropower] as a battery, so the question is not so much, is there enough energy, but is there enough transmission capacity to use that battery?

Canadian Business Hydro-Québec’s Billion-Dollar Power Struggle (October 11, 2022)

the controversy around NECEC bodes poorly for our ability to meet our climate goals in the U.S. or Canada. We need to get good at building things again, and this is showing that we, as a society, are not good at building things.

Axios One barrier to electric cars: Slow fleet turnover (July 25, 2022)

People generally tend to underestimate how difficult it is to change a stock variable, like all cars on the road. There is too much focus on the flow, or vehicle sales

Euractiv Trust in carbon market ‘undermined’ by EU’s Russia plans, analysts warn (May 19, 2022)

If policymakers can change the amount of CO2 permits available in non-predictable ways, this shakes investors’ confidence in the market and weakens incentives for low-CO2 investments.

MIT Energy Futures Magazine New England renewables + Canadian hydropower: A pathway to clean electricity in 2050 (Fall Issue, 2021)

Energi Talks Podcast Hydro’s main value is not electricity generation, but storage for renewables (June 7, 2021)

Solar Tribune: “Combating Climate Change” (February 24, 2021)

Bloomberg: “The Key to New York’s Green Dreams May Be Turning Quebec Into a Mega-Battery” (February 24, 2020)

“Quebec’s abundant hydropower is often seen as a competitor to renewables in the Northeast. But Dimanchev and his colleagues argue that using U.S. renewables and Canadian hydropower together as an integrated system could cut … the cost of reaching a zero-emission power grid by 2050 for New England and New York State.”

PV Magazine “How Canadian hydro could save New England and New York $5.4 billion” (February 24, 2020)

E&E News “Study refuels debate about power line CO2 emissions” (February 19, 2020)

MIT Energy Futures Magazine: “Renewable energy and carbon pricing policies: State-level adoption saves money and lives” (November 22, 2019)

The Verge: “Renewable energy can generate billions of dollars in health benefits, study finds” (August 15, 2019)

This research shows that renewables pay for themselves through health benefits alone

MIT News: “Shift to renewable electricity a win-win at statewide level” (August 14, 2019)

Axios: “How renewable energy can boost Rust Belt health outcomes” (August 13, 2019)

Grist: “Let’s hold off on praising China’s new carbon-pricing market” (December 21, 2017)

“But Emil Dimanchev, a climate policy researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote earlier this year that it’s premature to call China’s new policy ambitious without the details of the trading scheme being in place.”

MIT News: “Helping Mexico design an effective climate policy” (November 17, 2017)

Our ability to forecast the future is very limited, which is why it’s important that policymakers not design policies based on a single projection of the future.

Climate Home: “Brexit: Why a vote to leave the EU is bad news for the climate” (June 20, 2016)

Climate Home: “EU carbon price forecast inches up on reform plans” (May 31, 2016)

“Emil Dimanchev at Thomson Reuters Point Carbon forecast Duncan’s plans would see carbon prices average €16 a tonne next decade, compared to €14/t under the Commission version.”

Climate Home: “China holds key to revive moribund carbon markets” (May 25, 2016)

The Wall Street Journal: “EU High Court Rules Against Businesses on Carbon Credits” (April 28, 2016)

BBC: “Tata Steel windfall from carbon emissions permits” (April 8, 2016)

The Guardian: “Green policies are not responsible for the Tata steel crisis” (April 5, 2016)

Desmog UK: “Attempt By Climate Science Deniers to Blame UK Steel Crisis on Green Policy ‘Entirely Ignores Facts’” (April 5, 2016)

Carbon Pulse: “EU falsely claiming it’s on a credible track to 2C Paris climate goal -Point Carbon” (March 14, 2016)

The Telegraph: “EU has ‘failed’ to save carbon market from long-term gloom, say analysts” (March 12, 2016)

The lesson is that the EU, and other nations can design more effective mechanisms […to] deliver a predictable and stable investment signal

Carbon Pulse: “Point Carbon analysts warn EUAs still vulnerable to shocks, cut forecasts again” (March 1, 2016)

Climate Home: “Low prices raise concerns for China carbon market” (January 29, 2016)

Carbon Brief: “Factcheck: The steel crisis and UK electricity prices” (22 October, 2015)

Euractiv: “Polish opposition threat to quit ETS seen as political maneuver” (15 September, 2015)

Leaving the EU ETS would be a miscalculated overreaction. The government would be forgoing significant revenues, which it is currently relying on to modernise its energy system

Carbon Pulse: “DIALOGUE: Will post-2020 ETS reforms change the game for EU industry?” (July 21, 2015)

Carbon Pulse: “EU Market: EU carbon nudges higher as Phase 4 proposal lifts sentiment” (July 15, 2015)

Reuters: “EU politicians back carbon market 2019 reform start” (July 8, 2015)

“‘It will take longer for the carbon price to fully reflect the long-term implications MSR agreement,’ he said, adding the financial sector had to regain confidence in the market.”

Carbon Pulse: “Deeper EU energy saving goal would knock CO2 price -analysts” (July 8, 2015)

Reuters: “Dutch government ordered to speed up greenhouse gas cuts” (June 24, 2015)

Carbon Pulse: “European utility hedging rates up in Q1 -analyst” (May 26, 2015)

Carbon Pulse: “EU nations push for industry handouts as MSR deal leaves “massive” loophole” (May 18, 2015)

Climate Home: “EU to take carbon market decision the size of Cambodia” (April 28, 2015)

Carbon Pulse: “Early MSR start better for EU government coffers -analysts” (April 27, 2015)

Climate Central: “Carbon Pricing Pays the Way for Cleaner Energy” (February 22, 2015)

Utility Week: “EU market reform to quadruple carbon price within 15 years” (February 2, 2015)

Climate Home: “Fate of EU carbon market hangs in the balance” (January 21, 2015)

Business Green: “EU carbon price rides the “rollercoaster” as emissions fall” (April 2, 2014)

International Business Times: “How a Sluggish Economy Can Lead to a Healthy Environment” (April 2, 2014)

The Australian: “Global carbon market to reach record volumes by 2016” (February 28, 2014)

Reuters: “Aircraft face fines as deadline looms for EU pollution penalties” (February 20, 2014)

Scientific American: “Czech Green Scheme Puts High Price on Household Emissions Cuts” (November 7, 2013)

The Guardian: “EU freezes airlines carbon emissions law” (November 12, 2012)