Renewable Fuel Standard: Potential Economic and Environmental Effects of U.S. Biofuel Policy

National Research Council (download with free registration) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13105 [From the NYTimes Green blog]  The National Research Council says that absent some major innovations, the United States will probably fail to reach its 2022 target for making advanced ethanol from cellulosic biofuels. For one thing, researchers say, oil prices would have to top $190 a barrel … Continue reading »

NY Wholesale Electricity Markets & the Effect of RGGI on Imports

New York Independent System Operator / by James T. Gallagher (presentation at RGGI Inc.: Learning Session on Electricity Markets and Electricity Imports, October 11, 2011, New York, NY) http://www.rggi.org/docs/ProgramReview/LearningSession1/Presentation_James_Gallagher_NYISO.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Colin Sullivan, sub. req'd]  A shift of greenhouse gas emissions into neighboring states from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) … Continue reading »