GTM Research and SEIA present data from the upcoming U.S. Solar Market Insight report.
Source: US Solar Market Grows 95% in 2016, Smashes Records | Greentech Media
Installed wind capacity is more than 82,000 MW, according to a trade group, making it the nation’s largest renewable resource ahead of hydro.
Source: Wind capacity blows past hydro to become most plentiful US renewable | Utility Dive
After the release of a study showing solar now employs more than oil, gas and coal combined.
Rob Stavins is a leading environmental economists at Harvard. His blog was hacked after a post critical of Trump last fall. This is a repost of Stavins’ explanation.
Source: Environmental Economics: Standing by ‘An Economic View of the Environment’
William Nordhaus has long relied on traditional economic cost-benefit analysis to minimize the costs to the world economy from potential climate change impacts. This article discusses how he now views the increasing risk, the continuing uncertainty, and the likely increasing costs from delayed responses as driving the need for a more rapid effort.
Source: Why a climate economist is giving carbon’s ‘social cost’ a second look – CSMonitor.com
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW VOL. 107, NO. 1, JANUARY 2017
by Mark Egan, Ali Hortaçsu, and Gregor Matvos
We develop a structural empirical model of the US banking sector. Insured depositors and run-prone uninsured depositors choose between differentiated banks. Banks compete for deposits and endogenously default. The estimated demand for uninsured deposits declines with banks’ financial distress, which is not the case for insured deposits. We calibrate the supply side of the model. The calibrated model possesses multiple equilibria with bank-run features, suggesting that banks can be very fragile. We use our model to analyze proposed bank regulations. For example, our results suggest that a capital requirement below 18 percent can lead to significant instability in the banking system.
By Richard McCann
Why are we not using Davis’ wealth of human capital to our advantage? Why don’t we assign, and even hire or retain, these individuals to prepare these analyses for commission review?
By Anya McCann, COOL Cuisine
Altering your diet can alter the climate.
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