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Replacing copper with negawatts—how RIIO-2 could revolutionise network regulation

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Building on peer-to-peer relationships, our team helps energy and air quality regulators and NGOs navigate the complexities of power sector policy, regulation, and markets.

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Energy Efficiency: It Can Help You See for Miles and Miles

Visitors to our national parks want to see purple mountains majesty, not a purple haze. As states look to update their plans for controlling regional haze as required by federal law, Nancy Seidman reminds us that energy efficiency can help reduce the particulate matter emissions that obscure scenic vistas.

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We focus primarily on the world's four largest power markets: China, the European Union, India, and the United States.  

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New Book Maps Out the Politics of India's Power Sector

Electricity is critical to enabling India’s economic growth and providing a better future for its citizens, but the country’s power sector continues to struggle despite several decades of reform. To explain this, a new book co-edited by RAP India Director Ranjit Bharkirvar points to the challenges of politics. In "Mapping Power: The Political Economy of Electricity in India’s States," scholars analyze 15 Indian states and conclude that a historically grounded view of politics can help devise the reforms that India needs.

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Energy markets will deliver the flexible, decarbonised power system that we need, not capacity markets

Energy-only markets will enable the integration of the European electricity market and development of the flexible resources needed to support a decarbonised future. Philip Baker and Michael Hogan offer a critique to RTE’s impact assessment of the French capacity market. Energy-only markets (EoM) are the building blocks of Europe’s integrated electricity m... By Michael Hogan, Philip Baker

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“共益电气化：确保电气化实现公共利益”系列报告之《共益电气化：供暖》

执行摘要 睿博能源智库认为，有效益的电气化，或者说实现社会利益最大化的电气化，需要达到以下一个或多个条件，且对另外两个条件不产生反作用： 从长期看可以为消费者省钱； 促进电网的更好管理； 减少对环境的消极影响。 由于供暖在普通美国家庭的能耗... By Jessica Shipley, Jim Lazar, David Farnsworth, Camille Kadoch

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Report January 17, 2019

Beneficial Electrification of Water Heating

By David Farnsworth, Jim Lazar, Jessica Shipley Read now
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Die Grundversorgung mit Strom und Gas in Deutschland:

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Market-based instruments for energy efficiency: a global review

By Jan Rosenow, Richard Cowart, Samuel Thomas Read now
Presentation December 20, 2018

Demand Response in the US: Lessons for a low-carbon transformation

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Carbon leverage: Investing Europe’s carbon revenues in energy efficiency

By Catharina Wiese, Richard Cowart, Jan Rosenow Read now
Presentation December 17, 2018

Traditional Economic Regulation of Electric Utilities

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Presentation December 17, 2018

Residential Rate Design and Electric Vehicles

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Presentation December 11, 2018

Demand response in the US and Europe

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Presentation December 11, 2018

The British Green Deal: How not to design an energy efficiency policy

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Presentation December 4, 2018

The ABCs of Air Quality Regulation

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