Job Creation Opportunities in Hydropower : Presented to National Hydropower Association Annual Conference

National Hydropower Association / by Lisa Frantzis http://tinyurl.com/23k39ed [From Website] Following up on its 2009 analysis, independent Navigant Consulting Inc. finds that hydropower can support 1.4 million new cumulative jobs by 2025 with strong federal policy support. Both Western states with project development potential and manufacturing states like Pennsylvania and Ohio stand to gain tens … Continue reading »

Economic Impacts of Comprehensive Climate and Energy Policy: National Climate Change Stakeholder Recommendations and U.S. Senate Proposals Would Advance Economy and Employment

Center for Climate Strategies http://www.climatestrategies.us/ewebeditpro/items/O25F23069.PDF (summary) http://www.climatestrategies.us/template.cfm?FrontID=6032 (website) [From summary] A new state of the art macroeconomic study by the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS), using extensive microeconomic analysis combined with the REMI Policy Insight PI+ macroeconomic model, documents the reductions in household energy prices and greenhouse gases (GHGs), as well as the expansion of … Continue reading »

DOE Green Energy, a Free Portal for Green Energy Research

http://www.osti.gov/greenenergy/ [Information Today] Green energy-related research and development (R&D) results are now more easily accessible through a new online portal, DOE Green Energy (www.osti.gov/greenenergy). The free public portal was launched on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day by theU.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) within the Office of Science. … Continue reading »

World Oil Demand’s Shift Toward Faster Growing and Less Price-responsive Products and Regions

New York Univ. Dept. of Economics / by Joyce M. Dargay and Dermot Gately http://www.econ.nyu.edu/dept/courses/gately/OilDemandAbstract.htm [Abstract] Using data for 1971-2008, we estimate the effects of changes in price and income on world oil demand, disaggregated by product – transport oil, fuel oil (residual and heating oil), and other oil – for six groups of countries. … Continue reading »

The Environment and Directed Technical Change

NBER working papers / by Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion Leonardo Bursztyn and David Hemous (RFFers may access this report onsite or by accessing RFF’s network first using VPN offsite] http://www.nber.org/papers/w15451 [From Michael A. Levi's CFR blog] Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, and two of their colleagues (MIT and Harvard) posted a fascinating working paper last October … Continue reading »

New Methodology for Natural Gas Production Estimates

US DOE. EIA http://tinyurl.com/28sr7vp [From Press release] A new methodology is implemented with the monthly natural gas production estimates from the EIA-914 survey this month. The estimates, to be released April 29, 2010, include revisions for all of 2009. The fundamental changes in the new process include the timeliness of the historical data used for … Continue reading »