Andrew Campbell

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UC Berkeley's Energy Institute at Haas • Western Energy Imbalance Market • energy policy • Oakland's Bicyclist and Pedestrian Advisory Commission • He/him/his

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"[O]il production matters to a local economy, both because it creates high-wage jobs and wealth, and because it creates pollution and climate change." @severinborenstein.bsky.social with an explainer blog post on oil and gasoline prices. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/07/15/o...

Oil and Gasoline 101energyathaas.wordpress.com Petroleum production and prices matter, but not for the reasons many people think. When reporters call an energy economist during a presidential election year, it’s probably about oil and gasoline pri...

Max Auffhammer describes how difficult the switch to a heat pump space heater can be.

New Energy Institute Blog Post: Why Is Getting A Heat Pump So Hard? - by Max Auffhammer energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/07/01/w...

Why Is Getting A Heat Pump So Hard?energyathaas.wordpress.com Being a fully informed consumer when your AC breaks causes anxiety. My friend Lucas documented some worrying trends in heat pump adoption recently. Heat pumps are hella cool. It’s an old technology th...

My new blog post. New tariffs on e-bikes will hurt the environment and our cities. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/06/24/p...

Putting the Brakes on E-Bikesenergyathaas.wordpress.com New tariffs on e-bikes will hurt the environment and our cities. I recently returned from a trip to Cambridge, Massachusetts and was astounded by the number of cyclists riding along on the city’s exte...

"Across all 16 years in our data, we find that 60% of residential energy credits go to the top income quintile." New research from Lucas Davis and @severinborenstein.bsky.social analyzes the income distribution of energy tax credits and discusses drivers. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/06/17/c...

Clean Energy Tax Credit Concernsenergyathaas.wordpress.com Credits for heat pumps, EVs and solar panels still go mostly to the wealthy. Over the last two decades, U.S. households have received $47 billion in federal income tax credits for buying heat pumps, s...

How will President Biden's new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles impact the US transition to EVs? James Sallee looks at risks and hopes for a more collaborative future.

New Energy Institute Blog Post: On Tariffs and the EV Transition - by Jim Sallee energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/05/20/o...

On Tariffs and the EV Transitionenergyathaas.wordpress.com The US needs to learn to stop worrying and love the Chinese auto industry. The Biden administration announced a bevy of new tariffs against China last week. These include a whopping 100% tariff on Chi...

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“And so when you have a globally traded commodity like oil, then even if you’re producing more than you’re consuming, you’re still going to be exposed to international supply and demand disruptions because that affects a global price.” Andy Campbell in E&E News www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Trump, Biden spar over US energy independencewww.eenews.net Though it's popular on the campaign trail, the "political slogan" ignores the realities of a global energy market.

The upward trend of heat pump sales was interrupted in 2023. Lucas Davis explores possible causes.

New Energy Institute Blog Post: Why Are Heat Pump Sales Decreasing? - by Lucas Davis energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/w...

Why Are Heat Pump Sales Decreasing?energyathaas.wordpress.com At this rate it is not going to be easy to meet decarbonization goals. Decarbonization experts say you can’t do it without heat pumps. One prominent study has 75 million heat pumps deployed in the U.S...

@severinborenstein.bsky.social's latest analysis on how much money California's rooftop solar rate policy is costing households without rooftop solar in 2024 - $2b for PG&E's customers, $1.3b for Southern California Edison's customers, $0.5 billion for SDG&E's customers.

New Energy Institute Blog Post: California’s Exploding Rooftop Solar Cost Shift - Severin Borenstein energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/c...

My new Energy Institute Blog post about the challenge of broken electric vehicle chargers.

New Energy Institute Blog Post: Electric Vehicle Charging We Can Count On - by Andy Campbell energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/electric-vehicle-charging-we-can-count-on/

"[W]e found that the negative impact of seeing a wind turbine disappears over time" Wei Guo, Leonie Wenz and Max Auffhammer test whether housing values for homes that can see a wind turbine, versus homes nearby that can’t, fetch lower sales prices when sold.

New Energy Institute Blog Post: To See Or Not To See - by Max Auffhammer energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/03/25/t...

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Energy Institute Webinar: “Accelerating Transmission Expansion by Using Advanced Conductors in Existing Right-of-Way”, Duncan Callaway, Tomorrow, 2/14! haas.berkeley.edu/energy-insti...

"The lack of a change in the futures market suggests to me that, regardless of what happens with the LNG pause, the impact for U.S. natural gas consumers is likely to be pretty modest over the next several years."

New Energy Institute Blog Post: What Can Futures Markets Tell Us About Biden's LNG Pause? - by Lucas Davis energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/02/12/what-can-futures-markets-tell-us-about-bidens-lng-pause/

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New Energy Institute Blog Post: Federal Swings in Water Regulations Dramatically Changed Policy for Energy Projects - @joseph-s-shapiro.bsky.social energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/02/05/federal-swings-in-water-regulations-dramatically-changed-policy-for-energy-projects/

@severinborenstein.bsky.social discusses why purchasing low cost cap and trade credits is not a meaningful way for a company to offset its greenhouse gas emissions. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/01/29/c...

"There is a long tradition in agriculture of governments paying farmers for environmental improvement, rather than placing the burden on farmers to make those improvements." Aaron Smith on how CARB subsidizes digesters for manure at dairies. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/01/22/c...

Cow Poop is Now a Big Part of California Fuel Policyenergyathaas.wordpress.com Are the state's new low-carbon fuel regulations full of BS? -- Every day, California farmers milk 1.7 million cows. Each cow generates about 7 gallons of milk and 100 gallons of waste. Most farmers pr...

Koichiro Ito, Takanori Ida and Makoto Tanaka have published some valuable research on how to use sign-up incentives to attract consumers to voluntary dynamic pricing programs for electricity. I discuss on the Energy Institute Blog.

New Energy Institute Blog Post: Convincing Consumers to Adopt Dynamic Electricity Pricing @campbellenergy.bsky.social energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/c...

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On the Energy Institute blog today, Jim Sallee has a very insightful piece on the impact of high interest rates on the energy transition. The full effect is more nuanced than just raising the cost of capital-intensive projects. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2023/12/04/d...

The end date of California's cap-and-trade program is uncertain. Jim Bushnell analyzes how extending the program could influence permit prices.

California’s Cap-and-Trade Market Enters its Teen-Age Yearsenergyathaas.wordpress.com Extending cap-and-trade could be more impactful than proposed changes to the allowance budget. California’s cap and trade (C&T) program for greenhouse gasses, now 12 years old, is going through pube...

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Check out EI's blog this week on my office mate and friend, Leila Safavi's, awesome JMP: energyathaas.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/s...

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