The rapidly evolving rollback of policy support for electric vehicles. Source: Where are EVs headed? Back in April, I wrote a piece surveying various threats to the EV transition in the US. I argue…| Energy Institute Blog
That’s not an ethical judgment, just simple math. Over the years, our team of bloggers has put out quite a few posts on rooftop solar, many of which discuss the cost shift from solar ad…| Energy Institute Blog
The EPA case for regulatory repeal hinges on private sector cost reductions. Health and environmental impacts are not accounted for. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin has a long list of environmen…| Energy Institute Blog
If the DOE undoes minimum energy efficiency standards, which are decades old, consumer costs will likely rise. The Trump Administration wants to rollback or rescind dozens of regulations that set m…| Energy Institute Blog
Without major rate reform progress will be slow and incomplete. Not everyone has yet agreed that rooftop solar systems in California’s investor-owned utility territories shift significant costs ont…| Energy Institute Blog
Tariffs, rollbacks, and the IRA repeal threaten to stall America’s EV transition, just as it was beginning to scale. Image source: The Orange County Register The likely fate of electric vehicles du…| Energy Institute Blog
Only when you ignore environmental benefits and electricity bill impacts. U.S. electricity demand is on the rise. A data center boom, a possible renaissance in domestic manufacturing, and a push to…| Energy Institute Blog
Proposed performance-based ratemaking, a mainstay of UK policy, is unlikely to address California’s energy affordability crisis. California’s capital is abuzz with ideas about how to reduce the sta…| Energy Institute Blog
Would reduced rates just for EVs and heat pumps be a step in the right direction? If you are a regular reader of this blog, you have witnessed much hand wringing over the fact that electricity rate…| Energy Institute Blog
About half of U.S. households with a heat pump have some kind of backup heating. February was cold. Unusually cold throughout much of the United States. Polar vortex conditions brought record-break…| Energy Institute Blog
California’s solar industry is doing just fine despite their complaints about net energy metering reform. There is a new administration in DC producing a raft of misguided actions to bolster fossil…| Energy Institute Blog
Affordability isn’t the enemy of cap-and-trade—It’s the goal. California lawmakers are back to work in Sacramento. Heading into the new legislative session, cost of living concerns loom large. Both…| Energy Institute Blog
The Inflation Reduction Act’s subsidies for electric vehicles provide moderate climate benefits and help US firms at the expense of foreign auto manufacturers, but are not a home run. Today’s post …| Energy Institute Blog
How new efforts to curb groundwater depletion will impact the Golden State’s electricity use. This week’s blog is co-authored with Fiona Burlig, Louis Preonas, and Matt Woerman. Farmers consume nea…| Energy Institute Blog
Maybe, but we’ll need a little policy and alignment of incentives to make it work. This week’s blog is co-authored with Emilia Chojkiewicz and Amol Phadke The United States needs to up its tr…| Energy Institute Blog
In 2024, residential PV will shift nearly $4 billion onto others’ bills, more than double the 2020 amount. There’s a lot of anger in California right now about rising electricity prices. Since 2020…| Energy Institute Blog
Unreliable chargers could hold back electric vehicle adoption. Policymakers need to intervene. Consumers embraced electric vehicles like never before in 2023. Electric vehicle sales increased by 50…| Energy Institute Blog
Bill savings from residential PV are as large now as a few years ago, but the industry is facing other big challenges. 2019 was a good year for residential solar in California. In the service terri…| Energy Institute Blog
California is tightening its GHG belt – who should feel the pinch? California has set some ambitious GHG reduction goals. Now the state is trying to figure out how to meet them. The costs of unmiti…| Energy Institute Blog
Online vehicle sales could reduce double marginalization. Amazon’s new Hyundai Evolve Showroom feels almost like the future of car buying. You pick out the car you want, choose its features, and se…| Energy Institute Blog
