Like, say, Iran? Joking aside, is a refusal to raise taxes on gas to account for its externalities a form of subsidy? With charts like this you can see how little the US pays for gas compared to Europe. Infographic by Staveley Head ~alex
Entries Tagged as 'Energy Markets'
Does the US inadvertently subsidize gas prices?
May 27th, 2011 · Comments Off · Energy Markets
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Carbon emissions counter
May 23rd, 2011 · Comments Off · Energy Markets, Information Design
Much like the US debt clock, the carbon emissions counter is intended to raise awareness. Please download Flash Player. From Deutsche Bank I post this because I believe climate change (or what was once called global warming), is indeed serious, but nothing we can’t tackle with some ingenuity. The incentives just need to be right [...]
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World Greenhouse Gas Emissions
June 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Energy Markets, Information Design
Two charts from the World Resources Institute. 1. Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 2005 2. Emissions Growth, 2000 to 2005 ~alex
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A Fed for energy policy
June 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · Energy Markets
The ex-president of Shell has written a book: Why We Hate the Oil Companies: Straight Talk from an Energy Insider, by John Hofmeister. He seems a rather reasonable person, and makes two points in this talk below (given at Barclays Capital, in NYC). 1. The US energy policy has been so eff’d up by politicians [...]
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“It’s the nonnegligible probability of utter disaster that should dominate our policy analysis”
April 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Energy Markets
Sometimes I’m a bit late on catching up on my reading, but I’m glad I didn’t skip Paul Krugman’s April 11th piece for the NY Times Magazine discussing moving to a “green economy”. It’s a good introduction to environmental economics, and discusses the basic issues, which “look very different from the inside than it often [...]
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The odd thing about smart meters
April 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · Energy Markets, Usability
Smart meters have been hyped as an easy way for consumers to save money by explicitly showing them their energy usage compared to times of peak cost. The theory here is that you’re likely to use less energy at times of peak cost, and shift usage to times of lower cost. This then (one hopes) [...]
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Standards and making the smart grid useful
June 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · Energy Markets
The Economist’s Technology Quarterly came out this past week. As usual lots of great articles including this one about the smart grid. In particular the story makes the following point: without standards many of the devices that could take advantage of the smart grid and smart meters, and thereby tell you how much electricity you’re [...]
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Energy dashboard update
May 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Energy Markets, Information Design
I may not always have time to keep up to date on energy dashboards, but thanks to blogging technology and it’s popularity among smart, informed people we need not be at a loss. This time information aesthetics has picked up the ball and has a nice post on the topic. Energy Circle’s dashboard is perhaps [...]
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More energy charts … or the tyranny of little blinking lights
February 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Energy Markets, Information Design
Thanks to helpful reader Jed Christiansen (blogger in chief at Mercury’s Blog) for sourcing the chart I presented previously on energy usage and sources in the US (US Energy Flow Trends, Gina V. Kaiper, June, 2004), and then happening to have the file on his computer (or somehow easily accessible). He was kind enough to [...]
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Google at the (smart) meter
February 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Energy Markets, Information Design
The good folks at Google.org have apparently been testing out some visualization software for smart meters (or meters which have a much better understanding of how power gets used in your home, when, and by what appliances, and can communicate that back to the “network”). On their site they point one to a YouTube video, [...]
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