Jeff Gordon
@jeffgordon.bsky.social
Tax law, industrial policy, decarbonization, between state and market in American law. Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt Law School.
Very DC, even the grocery stores getting in on abundance discourse
April 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Very DC, even the grocery stores getting in on abundance discourse
Remarkable graph from Berkeley Lab's annual report on solar deployment (through 2023). PPA prices have closely tracked the cost of electricity, suggesting very low profit margins for merchant generators. Tempting to call it cost of service regulation.
April 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Remarkable graph from Berkeley Lab's annual report on solar deployment (through 2023). PPA prices have closely tracked the cost of electricity, suggesting very low profit margins for merchant generators. Tempting to call it cost of service regulation.
Amazing opportunity for a creative litigator with interests in private law to break into legal academia and work with one of the smartest and most generous mentors imaginable (Daniel Markovits)
April 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Amazing opportunity for a creative litigator with interests in private law to break into legal academia and work with one of the smartest and most generous mentors imaginable (Daniel Markovits)
Extremely @nathantankus.bsky.social / @lookheron.bsky.social style report on the administrative complexity of lithium pricing. There is supply and demand if you zoom out far enough, but not sufficient to describe what's going on in the details. www.oxfordenergy.org/wpcms/wp-con...
March 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Extremely @nathantankus.bsky.social / @lookheron.bsky.social style report on the administrative complexity of lithium pricing. There is supply and demand if you zoom out far enough, but not sufficient to describe what's going on in the details. www.oxfordenergy.org/wpcms/wp-con...
Though, I don't fully understand why credit spreads rise when utilities can pass through price volatility to customers. The citation is to something generic, not industry specific.
March 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Though, I don't fully understand why credit spreads rise when utilities can pass through price volatility to customers. The citation is to something generic, not industry specific.
Why do we need to derisk investment in renewables? Because moving to renewables (here, exploiting variation in RPS) raises electric price volatility, which widens credit spreads. Better storage will mitigate the volatility, but price-smoothing policy can help too. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
March 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Why do we need to derisk investment in renewables? Because moving to renewables (here, exploiting variation in RPS) raises electric price volatility, which widens credit spreads. Better storage will mitigate the volatility, but price-smoothing policy can help too. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Same idea here from @weisenthal.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Same idea here from @weisenthal.bsky.social
Powerful slides from NextEra, via @zeitlin.bsky.social. New solar + storage is just beating new gas.
March 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Powerful slides from NextEra, via @zeitlin.bsky.social. New solar + storage is just beating new gas.
Here are the top contractors to agencies other than DoD and [blank] (which appears to be defense-related):
March 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Here are the top contractors to agencies other than DoD and [blank] (which appears to be defense-related):
USAspending.gov data is amazing. Bet you wouldn't have guessed that United Health eked ahead of Lockheed for contracting in 2024 (mostly for its role as third party administrator of VA community care networks)
March 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
USAspending.gov data is amazing. Bet you wouldn't have guessed that United Health eked ahead of Lockheed for contracting in 2024 (mostly for its role as third party administrator of VA community care networks)
I'm excited to share that I'll be starting a new job this summer as assistant professor at Vanderbilt Law School. I couldn't have picked a better set of colleagues to support and challenge my work. I started grad school in 2015--thanks to all who supported me on this long road!
March 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm excited to share that I'll be starting a new job this summer as assistant professor at Vanderbilt Law School. I couldn't have picked a better set of colleagues to support and challenge my work. I started grad school in 2015--thanks to all who supported me on this long road!
Really? Home ownership looks more or less in the same low-60% range since 1960, whereas average age of Congress has gone way up
February 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Really? Home ownership looks more or less in the same low-60% range since 1960, whereas average age of Congress has gone way up
This “debate” between Luke and Beth cashes out in whether I read about export controls or modern selfhood next
February 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This “debate” between Luke and Beth cashes out in whether I read about export controls or modern selfhood next
For me at least, this project has been significantly influenced by @employamerica.bsky.social's work over the past few years. This tweet from @arnabdatta.bsky.social was a lightbulb moment: "we need a policy shift so that abundance is profitable."
December 9, 2024 at 2:44 PM
For me at least, this project has been significantly influenced by @employamerica.bsky.social's work over the past few years. This tweet from @arnabdatta.bsky.social was a lightbulb moment: "we need a policy shift so that abundance is profitable."
Soundtrack of an Amtrak Quiet Car commuter
December 4, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Soundtrack of an Amtrak Quiet Car commuter
Ah yes, the frivolous IRA, wasting money by *checks notes* imposing a tax
November 20, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Ah yes, the frivolous IRA, wasting money by *checks notes* imposing a tax
Efforts to deny this are quite a stretch. Like suppose you completely agree that Democrats should have attacked greedflation...the IRA recipients were not the firms jacking up food, oil, and rent prices. In normal political discourse, you're allowed to make distinctions between industries...
November 18, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Efforts to deny this are quite a stretch. Like suppose you completely agree that Democrats should have attacked greedflation...the IRA recipients were not the firms jacking up food, oil, and rent prices. In normal political discourse, you're allowed to make distinctions between industries...
You didn't know you were looking for a hypnotic double bass-centric jazz album with Celtic and North African influences, but here it is
November 21, 2023 at 2:30 AM
You didn't know you were looking for a hypnotic double bass-centric jazz album with Celtic and North African influences, but here it is
Fun to see a big company insist that key resources are more reliably managed in public hands!
October 6, 2023 at 4:15 PM
Fun to see a big company insist that key resources are more reliably managed in public hands!
Completely wild that OECD energy expenditure as % of GDP went from 10% in 2021 to 17% in 2022. Think about how much spare supply you might buy for less than 7% of GDP...
October 5, 2023 at 6:19 PM
Completely wild that OECD energy expenditure as % of GDP went from 10% in 2021 to 17% in 2022. Think about how much spare supply you might buy for less than 7% of GDP...
Pleased to see I’m not the only one who appreciates bleak British films about nuclear winter
July 6, 2023 at 1:44 AM
Pleased to see I’m not the only one who appreciates bleak British films about nuclear winter