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Energy and Climate policies: sharing knowledge across the Atlantic - Florence School of Regulation

This blog series features contributions from FSR and MIT experts, ahead of the first FSR–MIT CEEPR Annual Conference on Energy and Climate Policy

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The rapid acceleration of urban connectivity through aviation is a cornerstone of modern economic expansion. While the systemic benefits—increased trade, tourism, and capacity—are distributed regionally, the negative externalities, like noise pollution, are intensely concentrated ceepr.link/451vSLB

Electricity consumers across North America pay prices based on broad geographic zones whose boundaries were drawn up decades ago. As the grid is transformed by renewable energy and new large loads, these legacy zones are an increasingly poor fit for real network conditions. ceepr.link/44OiKcP

Where is America’s clean energy buildout a year after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act? Close to where it would have been if the Inflation Reduction Act had remained intact, argues a new paper from @mitceepr.bsky.social. @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social has the exclusive: heatmap.news/energy/clean...

Exclusive: New Report Says Trump Hasn’t Squashed Biden’s Clean Energy Buildout

A just-released MIT paper argues that the energy transition is still largely following the trajectory laid out in the Inflation Reduction Act.

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A new commentary by Professor John Deutch identifies four areas that have collateral effect on a nuclear energy economy with potentially decisive consequences: ceepr.link/3SCnBef

“The end result is really up to us, and up to policy.” A new study from our Faculty Director Chris Knittel and researchers @mitsloan suggests flexibility in the timing of electricity consumption could lower consumer costs–but what about emissions? Learn more: news.mit.edu/2026/how-dat...

How data centers can better manage energy use

A new study shows that if data centers move a significant portion of their energy consumption to non-peak hours, it could help lower average energy costs in the U.S. The environmental impact of these…

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A new commentary by @knittelmit.bsky.social focuses primarily on retail tariff design in the United States, and explains why that tariff structure is becoming increasingly inefficient, regressive, and outdated. Check it out at the link below: ceepr.link/4emt2oM

How CBAM recognizes carbon prices paid abroad will shape its effectiveness against leakage and catalyze carbon pricing abroad. Since CBAM is not meant to be a revenue-raising tool, it can make sense to let trade partners close the EU ETS price gap and retain revenues at home.

Least-cost electrification plans have become more sophisticated. This working paper proposes an integrated regulatory–financial framework. Universal access becomes bankable when planning, regulation and financing are integrated. ceepr.link/4lc8Ysm

A recording of last week's webinar on "The Economics of Keeping Diablo Canyon Online" by @johnparsons.bsky.social is now available at the link below: youtu.be/cUdPZUZz-Ow

20260604 CEEPR Webinar: The Economics of Keeping Diablo Canyon Online

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How should batteries be dispatched and recharged in the face of uncertainty about the future inflow of renewable energy? A new Working Paper by Cem Keske, @bjarnesteffen.bsky.social, and @johnparsons.bsky.social looks into it: ceepr.link/3PxiRpa

What role could clean firm power play in California’s energy transition? CATF’s @kspokas.bsky.social joins @mitceepr.bsky.social's John Parsons to discuss new analysis evaluating the costs & benefits of extending Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant through 2045. mit.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Pump prices are ⬆️ but suspending federal gas tax likely won’t help much. Prof. Gilbert Metcalf says: • Gas/diesel taxes are small vs. 40%+ fuel price hikes • Farmers are already exempt • It could boost demand, raising prices • The tax brings in ~$3.5B/month, needed to quell deficit

Why suspending the gas tax won’t help consumers

President Donald Trump has proposed pausing the country’s 18.4-cent gas tax.

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Climate change is no longer a distant threat—it is already imposing substantial and uneven costs on U.S. households. This paper by @kclausing.bsky.social, @knittelmit.bsky.social and @cwolfram.bsky.social seeks to quantify these costs across multiple channels, check it out here: ceepr.link/4cWpkCV

Should the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant’s operating life be extended to 2045? A new Research Commentary by @johnparsons.bsky.social is available to inform public deliberation on such an extension, focusing on the economic costs and benefits of continued plant operation. ceepr.link/4cy5OuQ

Rising fuel prices are pushing adoption of EVs, heat pumps, and more. As Christopher Knittel notes: supply shocks raise global oil prices, "those increases trickle down to gasoline." For policymakers: shocks can drive change, but only with lasting policy. #ClimatePolicy #EnergyTransition

Iran War Is Pushing Consumers to Break Up With Fossil Fuels

EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps, now cheaper than ever, are becoming more attractive as the conflict upends oil and gas markets.

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As global economies increasingly shift towards electrification and low-carbon energy, understanding the impact of critical mineral price shocks compared to traditional oil price shocks has become crucial. ceepr.link/3QDiwBa

Check out an article written by MIT's Brian Deese and Robinson Meyer of @heatmap.news about the newly launched Electricity Price Hub. heatmap.news/energy/elect...

What Americans Really Pay For Electricity

Introducing the Electricity Price Hub, a partnership between Heatmap News and MIT in collaboration with CleanEcon designed to bring much-needed clarity to the conversation around energy affordability.

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The Electricity Price Hub is a partnership between @heatmap.news and MIT CEEPR in collaboration with CleanEcon designed to bring much-needed clarity to the conversation around energy affordability. It is a new public data platform built to address this information gap. electricity.heatmap.news

Do renewables raise electricity prices? New CEEPR research finds Renewable Portfolio Standards and utility-scale wind & solar are linked to lower prices. But some rooftop solar rate structures can shift grid costs to non-solar customers. Rate redesign can help.

Is green energy raising your electric bill? Or state policies? It’s complicated. | MIT Sloan

Study finds that over 25 years, while large-scale renewables lower residential electricity prices, state electric rate structures can cause rooftop solar to drive up costs for non-solar households.

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Are renewables to blame for the contemporary rise in American household electricity bills? A new paper by Fischer Argosino and @knittelmit.bsky.social analyzes the most recently available 25-years of data to address this increasingly salient policy question. ceepr.link/4cr6t32

As EU lawmakers are looking to soften the continent's CO2 price, it's worth remembering that policy makers can overcome political constraints by complementing CO2 pricing with subsidies without sacrificing much economic efficiency, as I and @knittelmit.bsky.social show here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

In the NYT, our Faculty Director Christopher Knittel weighs in on data center policy — from on-site power to moratoriums. Get it right, and we support the grid + AI growth. Get it wrong, and costs rise. Policy brief: buff.ly/VyIYRum NYT: buff.ly/eoXJ9rx

Data Center Temporal Flexibility Policy Brief - MIT Climate Policy Center.pdf

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Electric vehicle adoption is a key part of climate and transportation goals, and local policies can make a big difference. One such policy is allowing EVs to use high-occupancy vehicle lanes even with a single driver. A new paper examines how these exemptions affected EV adoption ceepr.link/4qV4veK

Fusion energy offers clean, firm, and geographically flexible power, but decades of delays have left investors skeptical. A new Working Paper shows that investor confidence in successful commercialization remains below 20%. ceepr.link/3Ov3ahb

In a new paper, a team of researchers including @guntherglenk.bsky.social analyze the impact of alternative accounting rules for assessing the carbon intensity of electrolytic hydrogen on the financial and emission performance of Power-to-Gas (PtG) systems. Check it out here: ceepr.link/403PLPu

For a number of years, a debate has been brewing concerning the best way to report on the indirect emissions from the generation of purchased electricity. Check out a new Research Commentary by @johnparsons.bsky.social on the topic: ceepr.link/4rs0Rtp

A new paper examines the impact of critical raw materials and their processed derivatives on countries’ exposure to lithium-ion battery price fluctuations: ceepr.link/49MXRk6

The fragmentation of global supply chains and rising geopolitical tensions have spurred concerns about import dependence -- particularly for clean energy technologies and critical raw materials. A new paper analyzes these challenges from the perspective of market failures: ceepr.link/3YtxkmN

New paper out today in Nature Energy! We evaluate how Congressional proposals for policy-driven transmission expansion would shape U.S. electricity costs, emissions, and reliability. Big implications for climate and grid planning. rdcu.be/eS7lj #EnergyPolicy #Transmission #CleanEnergy

Implications of policy-driven transmission expansion for costs, emissions and reliability in the USA

Nature Energy - Interregional transmission is key to a cost-efficient, reliable and cleaner US grid. Senga et al. find that current legislative proposals can increase reliability while capturing...

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