The private benefits of the peak alert program swamp any social benefits. These private benefits arise, however, by shifting capacity costs onto other utilities and load customers in the region.

An email alert is sent out to residential customers to encourage load shifting and energy saving during specific hours on the following day. Using hourly load data, Gib estimates that the program reduces load by roughly 0.7 MWs per hour during the hours covered by the alert, or roughly 2 percent.

... and potential tipping points towards a fundamentally changed world order. Not all scenarios are pessimistic, however, reminding us that, despite mounting political headwinds, climate progress remains possible through predictable and also unexpected channels.

Additionally, Republican leaning districts, which overlap significantly with rural areas, see marked advantages compared to Democratic districts. These results highlight the potential for a VMT tax to address longstanding inequities in transportation funding

They find this tax swap is modestly progressive. More granular geographical analysis also highlights that rural areas in the center of the country generally benefit from this tax swap, which urban and bicoastal areas generally experience higher taxation

As drivers shift to hybrid and EVs, federal gas tax revenue is declining. In response, some have called for replacing the gas tax with a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax. Using machine learning techniques, the researchers carry out an analysis of this tax shift at the census tract level.

This commentary addresses the following questions: How does the FPFA’s proposed fee structure impact domestic production and prices? How does the proposed fee structure impact imports and exports? What are the revenue impacts of the FPFA?

The bill levies a tariff on imports in certain industrial sectors, proportional to the carbon emitted when the good was produced abroad. The co-sponsors of the bill present it as a way to level the playing field for
US manufacturing...