Sentences with phrase «energy economist»
An energy economist is someone who studies and analyzes how energy is produced, consumed, and distributed in order to understand its economic impact on society and find ways to make energy systems more efficient and sustainable. Full definition
And it has split energy economists, editorial pundits, and the academic community.
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«If we do get a global deal on climate that locks in a target for reducing emissions... then I think the fossil fuel companies do face a very bleak outlook,» said Mark Lewis, chief energy economist at Kepler Cheuvreux, a Paris - based brokerage.
Previous to that he was chief energy economist at Kepler Cheuvreux (2014 - 15), and managing director and global head of energy research at Deutsche Bank, where he worked for 14 years.
It graphically illustrates the point made by Canadian energy economist Peter Tertzakian in his books and speeches, that we are approaching a «break point» where no major energy source is simultaneously cheap, secure and clean.
After all, as energy economist Philip Verleger points out: «We don't keep our balances in BTUs; we keep them in dollars and cents.
On balance, divestment beats the green paradox if substantial carbon pricing is credibly announced, a team of energy economists finds.
«History shows that by far the most influential force in shaking up the energy business is government intervention,» Canadian energy economist Peter Tertzakian wrote recently in his blog, The End of Energy Obesity.
Jessica is an active member of the Citizens Climate Lobby, and, with energy economist Cathy Carruthers, commissioned a seminal econometric study in 2013 analyzing the impact of environmental tax reform in Massachusetts.
«It is a laboratory, if you like, a pilot, a test case,» says Gürcan Gülen, senior energy economist at the University of Texas, Austin.
However, as noted energy economist Mark Jaccard has pointed out, building new oil infrastructure does indeed have a direct effect on climate change.
«It's the frontier,» says David Knapp, chief energy economist for the Energy Intelligence Group in New York, who points out that the geology off the coast of Angola, TK across the Atlantic from Brazil, is almost identical.
The probability of saving money by using solar energy rather than standard grid electricity is 92 percent for Indiana farm businesses and about 50 percent for homes, Purdue University energy economists find.
«Given this uncertainty [over the environmental and economic effects of CO2 emissions], and the historic failure of central planning to do anything other than undermine economic welfare, the editor, Colin Robinson, one of the country's leading energy economists, argues that it is prudent to proceed with caution.
Hans Van Cleef, senior energy economist in Amsterdam for ABN Amro, said Brent's break above the $ 36.25 technical resistance indicated «more short covering in the coming days.»
The Breakthrough Institute recently highlighted some startling — and important — research findings along these lines, published in August in the Journal of Physics by energy economist Harry Saunders and four colleagues from the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories.
«It's real simple,» says Vincent Lauerman, a Canadian energy economist working in New York.
Purdue energy economist Wally Tyner found that current policies enable Indiana businesses to save money by using solar energy.
Andrew Leach, a University of Alberta energy economist, led the panel, which received thousands of pages of submissions from citizens, industry and environmental groups.
As Peter Tertzakian, an influential energy economist, put it to a Vancouver audience in March: oil sands attract a third of Canadian energy capital expenditure «but 95 per cent of the attention, because we're still fixated on yesterday's news.»
«Looking at the demand - supply interaction is something energy economists do and modellers do all the time, but usually at a global level.
A projection from energy economist Phil Verleger, as quoted by Denning, sees low - cost OPEC producers — Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, and Iran — losing 9 percentage points from their market share if the artificial propping up of prices continues until 2022.
The panel is chaired by Alberta Treasury Branches President and CEO Dave Mowat and includes Town of Beaverlodge Mayor Leona Hanson, former deputy finance minister Annette Trimbee, and respected energy economist Peter Tertzakian.
Yet, in a recent paper, Prof. Steve Thomas, a well - known energy economist Continue Reading
Pourhashem worked with environmental engineering graduate student Quazi Rasool and postdoc Rui Zhang, Rice Earth scientist Caroline Masiello, energy economist Ken Medlock and environmental scientist Daniel Cohan to show that urban dwellers in the American Midwest and Southwest would gain the greatest benefits in air quality and health from greater use of biochar.
«It's very hard to quantify» the contribution of various factors to emissions reductions, EIA energy economist Perry Lindstrom said.
But the electricity industry would see costs rise if energy economists such as Chris Knittel of MIT's Sloan School have their way, and a carbon tax or cap - and - trade system were instituted.
«California's current emissions cap is very unlikely to be binding,» said UC - Berkeley energy economist Severin Borenstein, «so losing Diablo Canyon would raise emissions.»
Eminent energy economist warns that carbon capture and storage will never be viable That is the stark message of Professor Gordon Hughes, Professor of Economics at the University of Edinburgh and a former adviser to the World Bank.
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Energy economist Andrew Leach has looked at the economics of refining in Canada (here, here and here) and claims that producers can make more money by selling raw bitumen than they could by upgrading it to synthetic crude oil or by refining it into fuel products.
«CAPP assumes that prices will be high enough to elicit this production growth, and that transportation capacity will be there,» says Judith Dwarkin, chief energy economist at ITG Investment Research.
«If only three of the 14 project consortia move forward,» noted energy economist Peter Tertzakian, «the spending ramp - up mid-decade will be greater than that of the oilsands bonanza 10 years ago.»
«It's the frontier,» says David Knapp, chief energy economist for the Energy Intelligence Group in New York, who points out that the geology off the coast of Angola, across the Atlantic from Brazil, is almost identical.
That growth in coal consumption was the primary driver of the record levels of global carbon dioxide emissions in 2011, causing a leading energy economist to worry that «the door to a 2 °C trajectory is about to close.»
But there is a clear division in the community of energy economists, scientists, technologists and campaigners over the primacy of regulation or innovation.
Peter Tertzakian, chief energy economist and managing director at ARC Financial Corp., says it's a bit early to see much acquiring or consolidating, but it's likely coming.
Mark Jaccard, an energy economist at Simon Fraser University, called the plan a prudent mix of sound economics and real - world pragmatism that creates incentives for emissions reductions.
Last year, Michal C. Moore — an energy economist at the School of Public Policy — published «A Proposal to Create a Pan-Canadian Energy Information Organization.»
According to Dr Mohamed Ramady, an energy economist and geopolitical expert on the GCC, the launch of the yuan crude futures contract has two key rationales — politics and pragmatism.
Danny Cullenward, an energy economist and lawyer at the Carnegie Institution for Science, said that although it is unlikely that the loss of the Clean Power Plan would affect many states» emissions cutting goals, there will be little encouragement for states reluctant to take action on climate change to create emissions goals without the plan in place.
Danny Cullenward, an energy economist at Stanford University, said the proposed budget is an attack on the integrity of both U.S. environmental protection and the nation's leadership in energy innovation.
Danny Cullenward is an energy economist and lawyer working on the design and implementation of scientifically grounded climate policy.
Hidden behind the flurry of conflicting claims and spins on who's drilling, or would drill, more or less was the reality — known mainly to energy economists and analysts, it seems — that presidents essentially have no power to affect gas prices.
«If we do get a global deal on climate that locks in a target for reducing emissions... then I think the fossil fuel companies do face a very bleak outlook,» said Mark Lewis, chief energy economist at
Sure enough, Democrats and environmentalists couldn't be more delighted by the scuffle: «If the infighting causes this backward - looking energy bill to stall out, so much the better,» said Ashok Gupta, chief energy economist at the Natural Resources Defense Council.