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Keywords: Electricity, Climate Policy, Energy Transitions
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Carbon price pass-through in electricity market Invited to present paper "Carbon price pass-through in electricity market" at 2019 AERE Summer ConferenceT06-P05 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Activity 2019-05-31 T06-P05 Power Demand in the Time of COVID In response to COVID-19, governments across Canada and around the world have instituted various degrees of physical distancing restrictions. While these are essential to protecting public health and limit ultimate economic damage, they have led to a contraction of near-term economic activity. We use power demand information to track this evolution. T06-P05 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Publication 2020-05-09 T06-P05 Canadian Electricity Markets during the COVID -19 Pandemic: An Initial Assessment T06-P05 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Publication 2020-08-01 T06-P05 Why are Power Prices so Darn High? University of Calgary School of Public Policy Energy and Environmental Policy TrendsT12-P05, T14-P03 University of Calgary, University of Alberta Publication 2022-04-20 T12-P05, T14-P03 Evaluating the Impact of Divestitures on Competition: Evidence from Alberta's Wholesale Electricity Market This article has published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization. T12-P05, T14-P03 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Publication 2023-07-05 T12-P05, T14-P03 Centralized versus Decentralized Demand Response: Evidence from a Field Experiment Seminar presentation to the University of Alberta's Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology. T12-P05, T06-C01 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Activity 2023-03-17 T12-P05, T06-C01 Alberta’s Renewable Electricity Program: Design, Results, and Lessons Learned We present a case study and analysis of Alberta's Renewable Electricity Program, one of a suite of policies implemented between 2015 and 2019 to increase the share of renewable generation in the Canadian province's fossil-fuel-dominated electricity system. The program consisted of a series of reverse auctions for contracts-for-differences which provided successful proponents with a project-specific guaranteed price for power generation. We find that the Renewable Electricity Program was successful in three important ways. First, it contracted for new renewable generation at prices in the range of CA$30 to CA$43/MWh (US$23 to US$33/MWh), well below expectations and among the lowest procurement costs globally at the time. These contracts have resulted in gains to the government of CA$75.5 million (US$60 million) to date. Second, the program ushered new entrants into Alberta's power market, including through mandated Indigenous equity participation in one round of auctions. Third, we find that price discovery and the incentive to develop new projects provided by the program spurred privately-financed development. While the program was a success, we argue that its design did not adequately reward high-value generation, which could have become an issue in future auction rounds. We analyse design alternatives that would have improved the program's dynamic efficiency.T06-P05 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Publication 2022-12-01 T06-P05 Show Me the Money! Incentives and Nudges to Shift Electric Vehicle Charge Timing This article has been published in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
T12-P05, T06-C01, T06-C02 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Publication 2025-01-29 T12-P05, T06-C01, T06-C02 Centralized versus Decentralized Demand Response: Evidence from a Field Experiment Conference Presentation at the "Advances with Field Experiments" at the University of Chicago. September 2023. T12-P05, T06-C01 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Activity 2023-09-21 T12-P05, T06-C01 Demand Response in Electricity Markets Invited presentation: "Demand Response in Electricity Markets" at the 7th Annual Electricity Policy Workshop held by the Ivey Business School at Western University. T12-P05, T06-C01 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Activity 2023-10-16 T12-P05, T06-C01 Show Me the Money! Incentives and Nudges to Shift Electric Vehicle Charge Timing - Camp Presentation Presentation at the University of Calgary's "Electricity Camp" in Banff Alberta. Paper: "Show Me the Money! Incentives and Nudges to Shift Electric Vehicle Charge Timing"T12-P05, T06-C01 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Activity 2024-05-30 T12-P05, T06-C01 “Unintended Consequences of Time-of-Use Rates: EV Charging and Distribution Network Constraints” - POWER Conference Conference presentation at the University of California at Berkeley's POWER conference. T12-P05, T06-C01 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Activity 2024-03-22 T12-P05, T06-C01 Danielle Smith may be grandstanding, but Canada’s Clean Electricity Regulations do need a fix Op-ed on the clean electricity regulationsT06-P05 University of Calgary, University of Alberta Publication 2023-10-10 T06-P05 Centralized vs Decentralized Demand Response: Evidence from a Field Experiment. Working Paper in preparation for submission. T06-C01 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Publication 2024-03-01 T06-C01 Electricity Market Design with Increasing Renewable Generation: Lessons From Alberta This article was peer-reviewed and has been Accepted at The Electricity Journal. T12-P05, T06-C02 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Publication 2025-02-13 T12-P05, T06-C02 Electric Vehicles and the Energy Transition: Unintended Consequences of Time-of-Use Pricing This article has been Accepted at the American Economic Review: Insights. It is forthcoming.T12-P05, T06-C02 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Publication 2025-03-14 T12-P05, T06-C02 ASSA Conference: Electric Vehicles and the Energy Transition: Unintended Consequences of a Common Retail Rate Design Presentation at the 2025 Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) conference in San Francisco. Presented work: "Electric Vehicles and the Energy Transition: Unintended Consequences of a Common Retail Rate Design". T12-P05, T06-C02 University of Alberta, University of Calgary Activity 2025-01-04 T12-P05, T06-C02
