Follow our energy experts in the media.
Severin Borenstein in The Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Bee, and The San Francisco Chronicle: California Regulators Are Pressed to Come Clean on Gasoline Prices (11/7/24)
James Bushnell in The San Diego Union Tribune and The San Francisco Chronicle: California is About to Change Fuel Standards. That Means Higher Gas Prices. But How High? (11/5/24)
Severin Borenstein on KQED: Berkeley Climate Activists Push for Carbon Tax With Measure GG, But Critics Warn it Could Backfire (10/17/24)
Andrew Campbell on KQED: Berkeley Climate Activists Push for Carbon Tax With Measure GG, But Critics Warn it Could Backfire (10/17/24)
Severin Borenstein in CBS News, The Marin Independent Journal | Opinion |, and The Sacramento Bee: Proposed California Low-Carbon Fuel Standard Changes Could Raise Gas Prices (10/18/24)
Severin Borenstein on KQED, Los Angeles Times, and ABC7: Phillips 66 Refinery Closures & High Gas Prices (10/18/24)
Severin Borenstein in NBC Los Angeles, CBS News, and Yahoo News: New Law Aims to Prevent Gas Price Spikes by Requiring Minimum Amount of Gas (10/14/24)
Joseph Shapiro in The New York Times: Electric Car Subsidies Are a Plus, but Could Be Improved, Study Finds (10/7/24)
Lucas Davis in The Atlantic: The EV Culture Wars Aren’t What They Seem (10/3/24)
Severin Borenstein on KQED: California Lawmakers Pass Legislation to Prevent Gas Price Spikes (10/1/24)
Severin Borenstein in Cal Matters, Jefferson Public Radio, and SF Gate: Economists like Newsom’s Plan to Help Control Gas Prices. Refiners Don’t. (9/27/24)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: How Will the State Manage the Slow Death of California’s Gasoline Industry? (9/26/24)
Severin Borenstein in Politico and the Los Angeles Times: For Takeaways From Day 2 (9/19/24)
Severin Borenstein in Cal Matters: Gavin Newsom Can’t Prove Price Gauging At The Pump But Wants New Refinery Law (9/17/24)
Severin Borenstein in The Washington Post: Data Centers Strain Power Grids. Should Tech Firms Pay For Upgrades? (9/13/24)
Severin Borenstein in The Fresno Bee and The Sacramento Bee: Newsom’s Big Oil Special Session is a Big Bust. Nobody Manages California Gasoline | Opinion | (9/7/24)
Meredith Fowlie in Canary Media: California Lawmakers Punt on Chances to Deal with Utility Bill Crisis (9/5/24)
Meredith Fowlie in Bloomberg: California’s Crushing Power Bills Challenge Its Climate Goals (9/3/24)
Severin Borenstein on Audacy and Politico: Severin Borenstein Provides Information About Gavin Newsom’s Plan of Addressing High Gas Prices (9/1/24)
Severin Borenstein in LAist: New Report Finds Electricity Bills Continue to Rise (8/21/24)
Meredith Fowlie in LAist: Economists Say the ‘Winner’s Curse’ is Another Reason for California’s High Home Insurance Rates (8/21/24)
Lucas Davis in The Regulatory Review: How to Use Cheap Renewable Energy (8/20/24)
Severin Borenstein on NBC Bay Area, Mercury News, The Sacramento Bee, and The San Diego Union Tribune: Gov. Gavin Newsom Calls for New California Oil Refinery Mandate; Requires Stockpile of Gasoline (8/16/24)
James Sallee in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Mother Jones: Where (and How) Americans Are Taking Advantage of Clean Energy Tax Credits (8/8/24)
Severin Borenstein in The Wall Street Journal: Why Californians Have Some of the Highest Power Bills in the U.S. (8/5/24)
Severin Borenstein in USA Today: Sky High Electric Bill? Here’s How Much Summer Heat Is Costing Americans (7/31/24)
Severin Borenstein in S&P Global: Rising US Power Prices Reflect New Reality for Utilities in Warming World (7/29/24)
Lucas Davis in Our World and Data: How Can the World Reduce Deaths From Extreme Heat? (7/22/24)
Meredith Fowlie in Berkeley News, The Daily Californian, and The San Francisco Chronicle: Clean Energy Tax Credits Largely Go to High-Income Tax Filers, New Report Shows (7/18/24)
Severin Borenstein in E&E News: Electricity Prices Get Political in Trump’s World (7/17/24)
Meredith Fowlie in UC San Diego Today: How Are Insurance Markets Adapting to Climate Change? New Study Explores the Impact of Wildfires on Home Insurance (7/15/24)
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis in the Washington Examiner: Clean Energy Tax Credits Largely Go to High-Income Tax Filers, New Report Shows (7/15/24)
Severin Borenstein in The San Diego Union Tribune: California’s Gas Tax Just Went Up. So Has The Bickering (7/5/24)
Severin Borenstein on ABC News: Thousands of PG&E Customers Without Power Across Bay Area Due to Weather (7/2/24)
Severin Borenstein on KTVU Fox 2: Environmental Activists Seek A ‘Buck A Barrel’ Tax on Chevron Refinery (6/18/24)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Examiner: Where San Francisco Gas Prices Stand Two Years After Historic High (6/13/24)
Severin Borenstein in Microsoft Start: Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough: Bay Area Lab Takes Big Step in Creating Clean Energy (6/11/24)
Severin Borenstein in Audacy: Come October, OPEC Could Cause Oil Prices to Drop (6/7/24)
Severin Borenstein in Shift Key Podcast: How California Broke Its Electricity Bills (6/5/24)
Severin Borenstein in the East Bay Times: Bay Area Forecast: How Long Will the Heat Last? (6/5/24)
James Sallee in Politico: How Biden’s China Tariffs Could Hurt California (5/31/24)
Duncan Callaway in The Washington Post: How a Simple Fix Could Double the Size of the U.S. Electricity Grid (5/28/24)
Severin Borenstein in The San Francisco Chronicle: Letters: Bill to Limit PG&E Fixed Fees Won’t Stop Rising Utility Bills. Here’s Why (5/24/24)
Severin Borenstein in Politico: Three Questions for Mr. Mystery Surcharge (5/24/24)
Severin Borenstein in Canary Media: More Batteries, Less Solar: California’s Solar Turmoil in Charts (5/23/24)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: Why Your Electricity Bill Might Go Up as Early as Next Year (5/16/24)
Severin Borenstein in Cal Matters and Audacy(opens in a new tab): Californians Will See Lower Electricity Rates and a New Fee That Won’t Vary With Power Use(opens in a new tab) (5/9/24)
Energy Institute in Inside Climate News: Twenty-Five Years After Maryland Deregulated Its Retail Energy Market, a Huge Win Looms For Energy Justice Advocates (5/8/24)
Severin Borenstein on the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Podcast: California’s Solar Equity Challenge (5/7/24)
Lucas Davis in The Washington Post: Here’s Why So Many Republicans Won’t Buy EVs (5/7/24)
Meredith Fowlie in The New York Times and The Economic Times: Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity (5/7/24)
Severin Borenstein on LAist: High Electricity Rates And A Controversial Plan To ‘Fix’ Them (5/6/24)
Meredith Fowlie in The Seattle Times: PSE May Turn Off Power in Parts of WA to Prevent Wildfires This Year (5/5/24)
Severin Borenstein in The San Francisco Chronicle: Letters: PG&E’s Proposed Fixed Fee is Designed to Benefit Customers. Here’s How | Opinion | (4/30/24)
Andrew Campbell in E&E News: Trump, Biden Spar Over US Energy Independence (4/29/24)
Severin Borenstein in The Mercury News: No, California’s Rooftop Solar Market Isn’t Dying | Opinion | (4/26/24)
Severin Borenstein in Cal Matters and Jefferson Public Radio: A Plan to Change California Utility Rates is Dividing Environmentalists (4/19/24)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: Save Your Advertising Dollars, Big Oil. Californians Already Know Gas Ain’t Cheap | Opinion (4/18/24)
Severin Borenstein in Canary Media: California Derailed Its Booming Rooftop Solar Buildout. Can It Be Fixed? (4/15/24)
Severin Borenstein’s Research in The Wall Street Journal: The Home-Solar Boom Gets a ‘Gut Punch’ (4/14/24)
Duncan Callaway’s Research in The New York Times: The U.S. Urgently Needs a Bigger Grid. Here’s a Fast Solution (4/9/24)
Severin Borenstein in the San Bernardino Sun and CalMatters: Californians Pay High Gas Prices and High Gas Taxes Yet Still Drive on Bad Highways (3/29/24)
Severin Borenstein in Canary Media: California Regulator Takes Income-based Electric Bills Off the Table (3/29/24)
Duncan Callaway in The New York Times: Utility-Caused Wildfires Are Becoming a National Problem (3/22/24)
Severin Borenstein in Los Angeles Times and Utility Dive: What’s Behind California’s High Gas Prices? Don’t Trust the Oil Industry for Answers (3/18/24)
Maximilian Auffhammer in CNN: How Much are Wind Turbines Dragging Down Home Values? A New Study Has Surprising Answers (3/18/24)
James Bushnell in The New York Times and The Economic Times: Storing Renewable Energy, One Balloon at a Time (3/18/24)
Meredith Fowlie in Politico: Cap-and-trade is Bread and Butter Now (3/12/24)
Severin Borenstein in Axios and San Francisco Chronicle: ‘It’s Crazy’: How Soaring PG&E Rates are impacting California’s Electric Car Owner (3/11/24)
Severin Borenstein in E&E News: States Eye Rescue of Retiring Coal Plants (3/7/24)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: Legislative Democrats Are Running From Their Own Tax-the-Rich Electricity Idea. Why? (3/1/24)
Cody Warner, Duncan Callaway, and Meredith Fowlie in Politico: Leave the Trees, Trip the Line (2/22/24)
Severin Borenstein in The Marin Independent Journal: Connolly Bill Proposes Boost in Residential Solar Incentives (2/20/24)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: Taxpayer ‘Protection’ or Taxpayer ‘Deception’? A New Ballot Measure Aims to Destroy State and Local Budgets (2/14/2024)
Severin Borenstein in Politico: This One Crazy Trick Could Lower Gas Prices (2/7/2024)
Severin Borenstein in Canary Media: Bill Would End California Experiment With Income-Based Electric Bill (2/7/24)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee and Yahoo News: California’s New Oil Czar Wants to End Mysterious Gas Price Spikes. Here’s His Plan So Far (2/2/24)
Lucas Davis in The Economist: How to Overcome the Biggest Obstacle to Electric Vehicles (2/1/24)
Severin Borenstein in KSBY: Here’s Why Gas Always Costs More in California (1/27/24)
James Sallee in the SF Gate and MSN: New Master’s Degree at UC Berkeley Focuses On Interdisciplinary Climate Solutions (1/20/24)
Severin Borenstein on Marketplace: To Put More Renewable Power to Use, Utilities Are Doubling Down on Battery Storage (1/16/2024)
Severin Borenstein on CBS Bay Area: Fremont Solar Equipment Company to Layoff 350 Workers as Industry Slows (1/3/24)
Meredith Fowlie on KQED, CapRadio, and The Daily Californian: Historic PG&E Rate Increases Will Hit Hard in 2024 (1/4/24)
Severin Borenstein on Texas Public Radio: Soaring Utility Bills Push Some Low-Income Californians to the Financial Brink (12/29/23)
James Sallee in The New York Times: California Pushes Electric Trucks as the Future of Freight (12/28/23)
James Sallee in The San Diego Union Tribune: Fixed Charges on Utility Bills Based on Your Income: An Update on What the Fees Could Look Like (12/27/23)
James Sallee on Business Insider: There’s No Slowing the Green Transition in 2024 (12/21/23)
Severin Borenstein in E&E News: Calif. Takes Aim at Gas Price Gougers. Here’s Why it’s Hard. (12/19/23)
Severin Borenstein in Politico: A Fight Over Who Loves Nuclear Most (12/11/23)
Lucas Davis in Politico: A Fight Over Who Loves Nuclear Most (12/11/23)
James Bushnell on KQED: Is California Still on Track to Meet Its Goal of 100% Clean Power by 2045? (12/6/23)
James Bushnell in Politico: Degassing California (11/27/23)
James Bushnell in Politico: Union Boss Talks Oil, Solar and Greed (11/17/23)
Meredith Fowlie on CapRadio: Potential PG&E Rate Hikes (11/13/23)
Lucas Davis in Politico and Axios: Three Questions for Gavin Newsom’s Climate Guru (11/6/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Washington Post: Growing U.S. Anger with Electric Utilities Finds its Epicenter in Maine (11/4/23)
James Bushnell in The Seattle Times: In Effort to Calm High Prices, WA to Pursue Linking Carbon-Pricing Market with CA, Quebec (11/2/23)
Severin Borenstein in NPR and KQED: Burying Power Lines Could Help Prevent Californian Wildfires. Who Should Pay For It? (11/1/23)
Severin Borenstein in ABC News and USA Today: Gas Prices Plummet As Some States Fall Below $3 a Gallon (10/27/23)
Lucas Davis in AXIOS: EVs, Like Everything Else, Are Political (10/25/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: California Gas Prices are Headed Down Despite Israel-Hamas War, Experts Say. Here’s Why (10/24/23)
Severin Borenstein in The San Francisco Chronicle: Letters: Claim That Utility Bills Will ‘Skyrocket’ is Overblown. (10/23/23)
Reed Walker in ARS Technica: Report: US Needs Much More Than the IRA to Get to Net Zero by 2050 (10/19/23)
Severin Borenstein in The San Diego Union Tribune and Politico: State’s New Oil Watchdog Questions Price Spike as Gas Crosses Over $6 in San Diego (9/25/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: Why are California Gas Prices Rising Again? (9/22/23)
Lucas Davis in The Washington Post: The Inequality of Heat (9/22/23)
Severin Borenstein in CBS Bay Area and KCRW: California Struggles With Skyrocketing Gas Prices as Summer Comes to a Close (9/20/23)
James Bushnell in The Seattle Times: Is Inslee’s Plan Working? The Electric Car Age Arrives — For Some (9/20/23)
Severin Borenstein in Audacy: Gas Prices Hit Unseasonable High, Will Continue to Rise (9/19/23)
Jenya Kahn-Lang in Inside Climate News and Inside Climate News: Laurel Peltier Took On Multi-Million Dollar Private Energy Companies Scamming Baltimore’s Low-Income Households, One Victim at a Time (9/11/23)
Severin Borenstein in Environmental Insights – A Podcast by Robert Stavins: The Challenges Facing the Nation’s Electricity Power Sector (9/8/23)
Lucas Davis in The Washington Post: Where Dangerous Heat is Surging (9/5/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Haas Newsroom: What’s the Big Idea? (9/23)
Severin Borenstein in Politico and Politico: A GOP Lawmaker Makes a Point (8/31/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Washington Post: Hawaii Utility Faces Collapse as Others Delay on Extreme Weather Risks (8/25/23)
Meredith Fowlie in Mongabay: Speedy Uptake of Five-Star Rated Fans Needs Government Push to Make Them Affordable, Say Experts (8/22/23)
James Bushnell in The Wall Street Journal: Tokyo Hopes Rooftop Solar Mandate Will Help It Get Through Hot Summers (8/18/23)
Severin Borenstein in Politico: California Can’t Find its Checkbook For Offshore Wind (8/18/23)
James Bushnell in The Seattle Times, Washington Policy Center, and The Chronicle: WA’s Carbon-Pricing Program Nears $1 Billion in Revenue, Far Outpacing Early Estimates (8/16/23)
Severin Borenstein in NBC News and CBS News Sacramento: Summer Has Been No Sweat for California’s Increasingly Green Energy Grid, But The Hottest Days May Still Lie Ahead (8/15/23)
Severin Borenstein in Utility Dive: US Virtual Power Plants Expected to Proliferate as Reliability Needs Rise with Increasing Renewables (8/14/23)
Severin Borenstein in Spectrum News: How California’s Power Grid is Holding Up to Extreme Heat (8/11/23)
Severin Borenstein on NBC Bay Area: Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough: Bay Area Lab Takes Big Step in Creating Clean Energy (8/7/23)
Jim Sallee in Axios: The Case for Paying to Scrap Polluting Stuff (8/4/23)
Lucas Davis in News Nation: Can US Power Grids Handle the Summer Heat? (8/4/23)
Lucas Davis in The New York Times and Yahoo News: It’s Official: Stores Can No Longer Sell Most Incandescent Lights (8/1/23)
Severin Borenstein in LAist: Can The Power Grid Keep Up With Worsening Heat And Fewer Fossil Fuels? (7/24/23)
Severin Borenstein in Washington Policy Center: Environmental Identity Overrides Data as a Guide to Climate Policy in Washington (7/24/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Wall Street Journal: The U.S. Power Grid Withstands the Heat, So Far (7/23/23)
James Sallee in Cal Matters, LAist, KPVI, and The Wall Street Journal: Are Major Changes Coming to Your Electric Bill? 5 Things to Know. (7/20/23)
Severin Borenstein on KCRA3 and CBS Bay Area News: ‘We’re in Good Shape’: Cal ISO Doesn’t Expect Rotating Power Outages in Upcoming Heat Wave (7/13/23)
Severin Borenstein on NBC Bay Area and ABC 7 News: California Secures $67 Million to Bolster Clean Energy Projects For Electric Grid (7/10/23)
Meredith Fowlie on Environmental Insights – A Podcast by Robert Stavins: Studying the Real Impacts of Climate Change Policies (7/6/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee and ABC Bakersfield: California’s Hated Electric Bills Will Soon Be Based on Our Income. Will it Work? | Opinion (6/26/23)
Reed Walker in The Economic Times – India: Stringent Policy Changes Caused US Manufacturing to Reduce Air Pollution — This Was Achieved Even as Output Was Rising (6/23/23)
Meredith Fowlie in The San Diego Union Tribune: The Current Electricity Rate System is Broken. Rate Reforms Will Make it More Equitable | Opinion (6/21/23)
Meredith Fowlie in Utility Dive: Four Non-Transmission Solutions For Clean Energy With New Power Lines in the Permitting ‘Valley of Death’ (6/21/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Seattle Times: WA Gas Prices Now Highest in U.S.; Some Experts Point to New Climate Legislation (6/21/23)
James Sallee on KTVU: EV Charging Cables Cut Off and Stolen From Chargers in Oakland (6/16/23)
Lucas Davis in the MIT Technology Review: The Surprising Truth About Which Homes Have Heat Pumps (6/14/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Guardian: Richer People Pay More: California’s Dramatic Change to Energy Bills (6/7/23)
Meredith Fowlie in Yahoo Finance: New California Law May Save Low-Income Families as Much as $300 a Year — But There’s a Catch (6/6/23)
Meredith Fowlie in The Washington Post: If You Live in California, Your Power Bill Will Soon Depend on Your Income (6/1/23)
Andy Campbell in Utility Dive: California Energy Players Fear Isolation, Reliability Impacts as SPP Eyes Western Market Expansion (5/30/2023)
Severin Borenstein in Politico: Biden Administration May Sue Over Korean Airline Merger (5/18/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Los Angeles Business Journal: Batteries Ready to Shine (5/15/23)
Severin Borenstein in The San Diego Union Tribune: Is San Diego’s Rooftop Solar Boom Over? SDG&E Eyes $2B Line (5/13/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Reporter: Massive Snowpack’s Summer Bonus: Clean, Cheap Electricity for California (5/9/23)
Meredith Fowlie in Canary Media: Income-Based Electric Bills: The Newest Utility Fight in California (5/9/23)
Severin Borenstein on ABC News Bakersfield: PG&E Among Energy Providers Submitting Proposal for Income-Based Electric Rates (5/8/23)
Severin Borenstein in LAist: Department of Transportation Plans to Require Airlines to Compensate Stranded Passengers (5/8/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Los Angeles Times: Environmentalists Sue California Over Reduced Solar Incentives (5/4/23)
Severin Borenstein in Times of San Diego: Republican Lawmakers Call California Utilities’ Flat-Rate Electric Plan ‘Crazy’ (4/30/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Mercury News: Customers Shred Electricity Bill Plans Backed by PG&E, Other Utilities (4/22/23)
Severin Borenstein on KPCC: New Electricity Rate Structure Proposal Would, In Part, Use Incomes To Determine Bill (4/20/23)
Andrew Campbell in Mother Jones: To Ditch Fossil Fuels, We’ll Need to Raise an Army of Electricians (4/18/23)
Jim Sallee in SFGATE: What the EPA’s Proposed Electric Car Rules Would Mean for Tesla — and You (4/14/23)
Severin Borenstein in the Utility Dive: US Energy Storage Needs National Standards and Regulations to Thrive Amid Clean (4/11/23)
Severin Borenstein on KPBS: SDG&E Proposes Adding Flat Fee to Utility Bills (4/10/23)
James Sallee in The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and Marketplace: A Fixed Monthly Charge is Coming to Your Electric Bill. Will it Make CA Rates More Affordable? (4/10/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: How High Will California Gasoline Prices Climb This Summer? Here’s Your Forecast (4/9/23)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times, Cal Matters, Grist, CBS News, and The Sacramento Bee: Newsom Learned With Oil Bill: Working With Lawmakers is Key to Passing Laws (3/30/23)
Andrew Campbell on KCRA: The US Produced More Electricity From Renewable Resources Than Coal in 2022 (3/29/23)
Severin Borenstein on Marketplace, JPR, Los Angeles Times, CBS Sacramento, and The Fresno Bee | Opinion: California Bill Could Penalize Oil Companies for Price Gouging (3/28/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: Newsom’s Bid to Penalize Big Oil for High Gas Prices in Limbo With New Proposal (3/18/23)
Severin Borenstein on ABC7 News, Cap Radio, ABC7 News: PG&E Says Your Bill Could Drop by 75% This Month After Huge Winter Spike (3/17/23)
The Energy Institute in The San Diego Union Tribune: SDG&E is Asking for More, Could That Backfire? (3/12/2023)
Lucas Davis in The Washington Post: America’s Great Home Heating Divide, Visualized(opens in a new tab) (3/6/23)
Severin Borenstein in the Marin Independents Journal and The Press Democrat: Dan Walters: Newsom’s Crackdown on Oil Industry Faces Bipartisan Skepticism | Opinion (3/4/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: Will California Sue Oil Companies Over High Gas Prices? (3/4/23)
Severin Borenstein on Cap Radio, the Los Angeles Times, CBS News, and Cal Matters: Noticed a High Utility Bill Recently? Natural Gas Prices are Rising in California (2/28/23)
Andrew Campbell on KCRW: How Wind Impacts California’s Power Grid During Storms (2/28/23)
Severin Borenstein in CalMatters: Newsom’s Crackdown on Oil Industry Faces Bipartisan Skepticism (2/27/23)
Severin Borenstein in LAist: The Temperature Goes Down, Bills Go Up. Can Renewable Energy Save Our Pockets? (2/22/23)
Severin Borenstein in Politico, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Cal Matters, The Sacramento Bee, JPR, and Fresno Bee: Newsom’s Proposal to Cap Oil Profits in California Meets Skepticism in First Public HearingCalifornia Tries to Cap Oil Company Profits. Figuring Out How is a Challenge (2/22/23)
Meredith Fowlie in WIRED: Heat Pumps Sell Like Hotcakes on America’s Oil-Rich Frontier (2/20/23)
Severin Borenstein in The New York Times, Cap Radio, NBC Bay Area, E&E News, and Palo Alto Online: What’s Fueling California’s High Natural Gas Prices (2/16/23)
Severin Borenstein in the San Diego Union Tribune and Times of San Diego: If Newsom is Serious About Proving Gas Gouging, He Must Mount a Vigorous and Public Case | Opinion (2/9/23)
James Sallee in the Santa Maria Times: Going Electric: California Car Mandate Would Hit Mechanics Hard | Race to Zero. (2/5/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Tribune: Californians Were Blindsided by Sky-High Natural Gas Bills. Is Anyone Listening? | Opinion (2/6/23)
James Sallee in AXIOS: A Wide-Angle Take on AI and Climate Change (1/24/23)
Lucas Davis in Canary Media: Renters Need EV Charging at Home. These Companies Aim to Provide It (1/24/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Wall Street Journal: California Has a Gas-Price Mystery: Too High, but Why? (1/20/23)
Severin Borenstein on KCRW: SoCal’s Solar Installers Could See Slowed Business Due to State Rules (1/19/23)
Lucas Davis in CBS Sacramento: Getting Answers: Why are PG&E Bills Skyrocketing? (1/12/23)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: California Gas Prices are Back on the Ground. Here’s How to Keep Them From Soaring Again | Opinion (1/12/23)
Andrew Campbell in Grist: To Get Off Fossil Fuels, America is Going to Need a Lot More Electricians (1/11/23)
Severin Borenstein on KPCC and LAist: SoCal Residents Can Expect Steep Jump To Natural Gas Bills. Here’s Why (1/10/23)
Severin Borenstein on KCRW: Your Gas Bill Could Triple in SoCal. What To Do? (1/9/23)
James Bushnell in The San Diego Union Tribune: East County’s Only Hospital is Powered By An Off-the-Grid Machine That’s Cutting Costs and Emissions, Report Says (1/1/23)
Severin Borenstein in The New York Times and Politico: Clean Energy Quest Pits Google Against Utilities (12/20/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Mercury News, San Francisco Examiner, The San Diego Union Tribune, The Mercury News Article 2: Letters: Rooftop Solar (12/16/22)
Meredith Fowlie in the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Podcast: Overcoming Economic Barriers to Electrifying Everything (12/13/22)
Severin Borenstein in Bloomberg: Op-ed: Winter Wonderland Is a Last-Minute Gift for ‘Natty’ Bulls (12/15/22)
Severin Borenstein on Marketplace: Heating Oil Costs Are Up — and That’s Bad News for the Northeast (12/12/22)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: The Mercury News, and the Los Angeles Times Article 2: High Gas Costs Hurt California Drivers as Refiners Rake in Huge Profits. These Charts Explain(12/12/22)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: AP: CBS News, Cal Matters, KPCC, CBS Bay Area, NBC Bay Area, KQED, Cal Matters Article 2, CEC News, ABC7 News, ABC10, The Sacramento Bee, The Mercury News, The San Diego Union Tribune, and Column: Los Angeles Times Article 2: Prepare for More Gas Price Hikes. Here’s Why—and Who’s to Blame (12/4/22)
Severin Borenstein in Utility Dive: The Power Grid Faced Heat Waves, Record Demand and Tight Conditions in 2022. What Happens Next? (11/22/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Washington Post: FTX Fiasco Shows Crypto’s No Green-Grid Hero (11/16/22)
Severin Borenstein in San Francisco Chronicle: California Gas Prices are Dropping. Here’s How Low They Could Get (11/16/22)
Lucas Davis in Bloomberg: The Wrong Americans Are Buying Electric Cars (11/15/22)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Examiner, The Detroit News, Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Bee, and The Modesto Bee: New CPUC Rule Puts the Dimmer on Solar Power (11/11/22)
Catherine Wolfram in Grist and Vox: How California’s Initiative to Fund Electric Vehicles Went Terribly Wrong (11/11/22)
Severin Borenstein on Marketplace: Fuel Oil Used to Heat Homes Costs 68.5% More Than This Time Last Year (11/10/22)
James Bushnell and Severin Borenstein in San Francisco Chronicle: Refinery Outages Contributed to California’s Gas Price Spike. So Why Do We Know So Little About Them? (11/5/22)
James Bushnell in The New York Times: Op-ed: To Electrify the United States, We’re Going to Need a Lot More Electricity (10/31/22)
Severin Borenstein on CBS Bay Area, The Sacramento Bee, Cal Matters, CBS Los Angeles, and KTVU: Gov. Newsom Wants to Tax Gas Company Profits to Help State’s Residents (10/27/22)
Severin Borenstein in East Bay Times: Would A Boycott of California Gas Stations Help Lower Prices? (10/23/22)
James Bushnell in Time: Donating to Climate Charities Might Be Better Than Buying Carbon Offsets (10/21/22)
Andrew Campbell in Politico: Biden’s Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Gas Price Problem (10/20/22)
Severin Borenstein on NPR: California’s Gas Prices Top $6 a Gallon in October (10/19/22)
Severin Borenstein in RTO Insider: Column: Counterflow: Nice Work If You Can Get It, Take 2 (10/17/22)
Severin Borenstein in PBS, The Washington Post, and CBS News: Why Gas Prices Are So Much Higher in California And How The State is Reacting (10/14/22)
Energy Institute in The Wall Street Journal, WORT-FM 89.9, and Madison.com: Utilities Have a High-Wire Act Ahead (10/9/22)
Severin Borenstein in Yahoo News, California Examiner, Yahoo News, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, SFGate, Politico, San Francisco Chronicle, The Modesto Bee, KCRW, Politico Article 2, ABC10, CBS News, Los Angeles Times Article 2, KTVU, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Los Angeles Times, CBS News Article 2, Desert Sun, The San Diego Union Tribune, The Tribune, KPCC, Reuters, and Forbes Article 2: California Gas Prices Hit Record Highs, With OPEC+ Move Sparking Worsening Economic Threat (10/5/22)
James Bushnell in Yahoo News: How California is Preparing Its Grid to Handle The Transition to Electric Vehicles (9/29/22)
Severin Borenstein in ABC7 News, San Francisco Chronicle, NBC Bay Area, California Examiner, NBC Bay Area Article 2, and KPCC: California Gas Prices Are Spiking Again, and It May Get Even Worse. Here’s Why (9/28/22)
Severin Borenstein, Meredith Fowlie, and James Sallee in Utility Dive, Cap Radio, NewsWise, KPBS, San Francisco Examiner, S & P Global, RTO Insider, Yahoo News, Business Wire, and Black Voice News: High Electricity Rates Could Jeopardize California’s Electrification Efforts: Report (9/22/22)
Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell in The Washington Post: “California is Awash in Renewable Energy — Except When It’s Most Needed” (9/21/22)
James Bushnell on KTVU: Biden Administration Banking On California’s Massive Offshore Winds For Energy (9/16/22)
Duncan Callaway on KQED: The Mysteries of California’s Electric Grid (9/15/22)
James Bushnell in CBS News: “Where Do I Find a Charger?”: Electric Vehicle Push Fuels Concerns About Infrastructure (9/14/22)
Severin Borenstein in Politico: Gas Prices Falling Across U.S., But Not in California (9/13/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: California Barely Avoided Blackouts During Heat Wave. Was That a Win or a Wake-up Call? (9/13/22)
Severin Borenstein on Marketplace: California’s Grid Withstood the Heat Wave With Texts, Batteries and Conservation (9/13/22)
Andrew Campbell in E&E News: Both GOP and Dems See Vindication in Calif. Grid Misery (9/9/22)
Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell in the San Francisco Chronicle: Rolling Blackouts Could Happen In California If Things Get Dire On The Power Grid. Here’s What They Are And Who’s Affected (9/7/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Washington Post, ABC News, KCRW, Bloomberg, KCRA, KPCC, SFist, KCRA Article 2, Marketplace, The Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek, and KCRA Article 3: California Scrambles to Avoid Blackouts As It Pursues a Green Energy Future (9/7/22)
Andrew Campbell on NBC Bay Area: Power Problems: Why Can’t California Handle High Heat? (9/6/22)
Severin Borenstein in Grist: ‘Make the Clean Stuff Cheaper’: Did the IRA Kill the Carbon Tax? (9/6/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Washington Post: California Loves EVs But Will Be Stuck in Hybrid for Years (9/6/22)
James Bushnell in the San Francisco Chronicle: California Grid Will Face More Strain Wednesday Though Blackouts Largely Averted Tuesday (9/6/22)
Severin Borenstein on NPR Planet Money: Breaking Down the Price of Gasoline (9/2/22)
James Bushnell on KPCC: Following A Flurry Of Climate-Related Bills, Is California On-Pace To Meet Its Renewable Economy Future? (9/2/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Mercury News and Washington Examiner: Will California Have Blackouts Over Labor Day Weekend? (9/2/22)
Severin Borenstein in Newsy: Southern California Fire Forces Evacuations, Shuts Down Some Roads (9/2/22)
Lucas Davis in Axios: Nuclear Power is Having a Resurgence (8/31/22)
Severin Borenstein on ABC7 News, KCRA, CBS Sacramento, and San Francisco Chronicle: Considering All The Solar Panels People Have Installed, Why Are We Having Flex Alerts Still? (8/30/22)
Severin Borenstein on CBS News: California Takes Lead On Climate Change With Plan to Halt Sale of New Gas Cars By 2035 (8/25/22)
Andrew Campbell on KPIX CBS Bay Area: Expert Talks About Projected Impacts of 2035 Ban On Gas-Powered Cars In State (8/25/22)
Severin Borenstein in CBS News: Update: California Votes To Ban New Gas Car Sales By 2035 (8/25/22)
Lucas Davis in Politico: Heat Pumps Are Hot, But Cool Roofs Are Cool Too (8/25/22)
Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell on Inside Climate News: The New US Climate Law Will Reduce Carbon Emissions and Make Electricity Less Expensive, Economists Say (8/19/22)
Andrew Campbell in the Washington Examiner and Washington Examiner: Newsom’s Nuclear Power Call Draws Jabs from Democrats (8/18/22)
Severin Borenstein on ABC7 News: Statewide Flex Alert Highlights Impacts of Cleaner Energy on Electric Grid (8/17/22)
Andrew Campbell in CBS News: Why Issue a Flex Alert If Available Power Supply is Higher Than the Forecasted Demand? (8/17/22)
James Bushnell in MIT Technology Review: Predicting The Climate Bill’s Effects is Harder Than You Might Think (8/12/22)
Severin Borenstein on Marketplace: Gas Prices Keep Falling, But Americans Still Feel Inflation’s Bite (8/10/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Reporter: Is Sub-$5 Gas Back? The Bay Area Hunt Is On (8/10/22)
Severin Borenstein in Bloomberg: OpEd: Don’t Call It a Windfall Tax: Elements by Liam Denning (8/8/22)
Severin Borenstein in Yahoo Finance: Climate Change: We Should Rethink the Best Tools For Energy Transition, New Paper Argues (8/8/22)
Severin Borenstein in the Press Democrat, ABC7, and Napa Valley Register: Gas Prices in California Down $1 Since Peak. How Are Prices in Sonoma County Being Affected? (8/7/22)
Meredith Fowlie in Science: Surprise Climate Bill Will Meet Ambitious Goal of 40% Cut in U.S. Emissions, Energy Models Predict (8/1/22)
James Bushnell in Bloomberg and The Washington Post: OpEd: Elements: Putin, Natural Gas and Democracy (7/25/22)
Severin Borenstein in San Francisco Chronicle: Could High-Tech Clothing Combat Climate Change? Bay Area Startup Thinks So (7/23/22)
Severin Borenstein on ABC7 News: UC Berkeley Economist Explains ‘Mystery Gas Surcharge,’ Why CA Pays More Than Any Other State (7/21/22)
Severin Borenstein in The San Diego Union Tribune: Looming Decision On New Rooftop Solar Rules Draws Protesters in Front of Sempra Headquarters (7/19/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Hill: Gavin Newsom Plants Flag on Climate, Spurring 2024 Chatter (7/18/22)
Severin Borenstein in Yahoo News: Summer Heat Waves Might Make Europe ‘More Vulnerable to Russian Influence’: Economist (7/18/22)
Meredith Fowlie and Duncan Callaway in The Daily Californian: Analysis Suggests Upgrade to California’s Electric Distribution System Needed (7/18/22)
Severin Borenstein in Press Democrat: Experts: Local Gas Prices Are Dropping, But Don’t Expect $5 Per Gallon Anytime Soon (7/13/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: Blame Driving Habits for California’s High Gas Prices (7/13/22)
Andrew Campbell on ABC7: Why Does California Pay More for Gas? Deep Dive on Prices Here (7/11/22)
Severin Borenstein in The New York Times: Rockets, Feathers and Prices at the Pump (7/9/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: Blame Driving Habits for California’s High Gas Prices (7/9/22)
Severin Borenstein on KTVU: Gas Prices Take Slight Dip Due to Fear of a Global Recession (7/6/22)
Severin Borenstein on CBS Bay Area: State Lawmakers Struggle to Offset Gas Price Increase (6/30/22)
Andrew Campbell in US News and The Washington Post: To Avoid Blackouts, California May Tap Fossil Fuel Plants (6/30/22)
Severin Borenstein on ABC7 News and KTLA: California Gas Prices Set to Go Even Higher Friday – Here’s Why (6/28/22)
Severin Borenstein on CBS News: Why Cutting the Federal Gas Tax Might Not Help Drivers Much (6/23/22)
Lucas Davis in The Guardian: The Last Nuclear Plant in California – And the Unexpected Quest to Save It (6/23/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: Will California Suspend Its Gas Tax? Debate Over Fuel Costs Rages on as Biden Weighs In (6/23/22)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Examiner, The Mercury News, and The Press Democrat: Gas Prices Trigger Pavlovian Political Promises (6/22/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Reporter: California Lawmakers Promise Relief With New Select Committee on ‘Gas Price Gouging’ (6/20/22)
Severin Borenstein on CBS Sacramento: Sacramento Public Transit Ridership Up as Gas Prices Continue to Soar (6/14/22)
The Energy Institute on ABC News: PG&E Pledges Net-Zero Emissions By 2040, Will Keep Using Gas (6/8/22)
Lucas Davis on CBS Bay Area: PG&E Shows Off New Tesla Battery Project in Moss Landing (6/6/22)
Severin Borenstein on NBC Bay Area, CBS News, and The Mercury News: California Congressman Proposes New Gas Relief Bill (5/31/22)
Severin Borenstein on ABC7 Bay Area: Almost $8 a Gallon? Here’s When Expert Says Sky-high Bay Area Gas Prices May Go Down (5/24/22)
James Sallee in Cal Matters: Going Electric: California Car Mandate Would Hit Mechanics Hard (5/24/22)
Severin Borenstein on CBS News: In These Locations, a Gallon of Gas Costs More Than the Federal Minimum Wage (5/24/22)
Severin Borenstein on CBS News: “We’re Not Going to See $2 or $3 Gasoline Even in the Near Future:” Analyst on the Reason Why Gas Prices Are so High (5/21/22)
Meredith Fowlie in the Utility Dive: California’s ‘Affordability Crisis’ Attracts Innovative Ratemaking and Regulatory Proposals (5/19/22)
Andrew Campbell and Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area Diesel Prices Are Soaring. Could They Push the Cost of Consumer Goods Even Higher? (5/17/22)
Severin Borenstein on CBS News: Sky-High Diesel Prices Pinching Bay Area Truckers, Consumers (5/11/22)
Severin Borenstein in KCRA: Rolling Blackouts? California Prepares for Energy Shortfalls in Hot, Dry Summer (5/7/22)
Meredith Fowlie in Resources: Indirect Emissions Disclosures Are Important but Tricky(opens in a new tab) (5/4/22)
James Bushnell in the Houston Chronicle: Are Pipeline Companies Too Powerful? Texas’ Unusual Gas Market Faces Fight Over Winter Storm Costs(opens in a new tab) (5/4/22)
Severin Borenstein on CBS Sacramento News: California Gas Tax Increase Likely as State Leaders Still Debate How to Relieve Drivers (4/29/22)
Lucas Davis in Energy Wire: Biden Tosses $6B Lifeline to Save Struggling Nuclear Plants (4/20/22)
Severin Borenstein in the Houston Chronicle: Is Cryptocurrency the Magical Texas Route to a Stable Grid? Or Just Magical Thinking? (4/18/22)
Severin Borenstein on CBS Bay Area News: Plan For Higher Ethanol Blend Gas During Summer To Save Drivers a Few Cents Per Gallon (4/12/22)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles Gas Prices Drop for 15th Consecutive Day Following ‘Unprecedented Rise’ (4/12/22)
Severin Borenstein on ABC7 News: Benicia Pier Fire: Bay Area Car Dealers Worry Port Closure Will Delay Vehicle Deliveries (4/11/22)
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis in The Washington Post: Why Gasoline Prices Remain High Even as Crude Oil Prices Fall(opens in a new tab) (4/11/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Mercury News: Gas Prices are ‘A Blip’ on the Road to Everyone Having an Electric Car, Expert Says (4/7/22)
Severin Borenstein in Nature Energy: It’s Time for Rooftop Solar to Compete with Other Renewables (4/7/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Hill: Questions Grow About Biden’s Position on a Gas Tax Holiday (4/6/22)
Severin Borenstein in E&E News and The Daily Californian: Surging Electric Bills Threaten California Climate Goals (4/5/22)
Severin Borenstein on NBC News and the The Sacramento Bee: Will Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Lead to Lower Gas Prices? (4/01/22)
Severin Borenstein on CBS Bay Area News and the Daily Democrat: Rising Cost of Gas Prompts Renewed Discussion of ‘Mystery Surcharge’ (3/30/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Wall Street Journal: Gasoline Tax Breaks Are a Low Octane Boost for Drivers (3/28/22)
Severin Borenstein in Cal Matters and the SFGate: California Contradiction: Ban Gas Cars Later, but Cushion Gas Prices Now? (3/28/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Los Angeles Times: Op-Ed: Sorry, Rooftop Solar Supporters, California Incentives Really Do Punish the Poor (3/28/22)
Severin Borenstein in the Bakersfield: Economists Doubt Pumping More Oil in California Would Lower Fuel Prices (3/26/22)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Daily News: Want to Buy a New EV in Southern California? Expect a Long Wait as Demand, Gas Prices Surge (3/25/22)
James Bushnell on NPR: High Gas Prices: Why There’s No Quick Fix (3/24/22)
Andrew Campbell in the Berkeley Haas Newsroom: Explainer: The Myth of ‘Energy Independence’ (3/24/22)
Severin Borenstein in the New York Times California Today, The Mercury News, La Jolla Light, the Marin Independent Journal, and KQED: U.S Gas Prices Are Coming Back Down, but Not in California (3/24/22)
Severin Borenstein on NBC Bay Area, KTVU Article 1, KTVU Article 2, the Daily Democrat, CBS SF, The Guardian, CBS8: Steelworkers Walk Off Job at Chevron Richmond Refinery (3/21/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Mercury News Article 1, The Hill, LAist, New York Times, ABC 7, the Marin Independent Journal, East Bay Times, CBS Sacramento, ABC30, The Mercury News Article 2: Solve California’s Mystery Gas Surcharge of 48 cents a Gallon (3/16/22)
Andrew Campbell on NBC Bay Area: As Oil Prices Drop, Bay Area Residents Hope Gas Prices Will Follow (3/15/22)
James Bushnell in the San Francisco Chronicle: Someday Soon a Car Could Power Your Home in California, say PG&E and General Motors (3/11/22)
Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell in Cal Matters, KPCC, The Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, East Bay Times, CBS Bay Area, the Los Angeles Times Article 1, the Los Angeles Times Article 2, SF Gate Article 1, SF Gate Article 2, SF Gate Article 3, the Daily Tax Report, the San Francisco Chronicle, ABC7, LAist, LA Daily News, KQED, The Sacramento Bee, Berkeley News, Governing, NPR, Marketplace, and The Modesto Bee: Here’s How State Lawmakers Want to Help Californians Facing High Gas Prices(opens in a new tab) (3/11/22)
James Bushnell in CBC and The Hill: Americans Say They Support Russian Oil Ban — Even If It Costs Them (3/8/22)
Lucas Davis in The Daily Californian: California Average Gas Price Surpasses $5, Highest in US (3/6/22)
Severin Borenstein in the SF Gate: Gas Average Hits $5 a Gallon in 5 SF Bay Area Counties (3/3/22)
Lucas Davis in the Utility Dive: Texas Just Dodged a Repeat of 2021 Outages, But Its Power Sector Has a Long Way to Go, Analysts Say (2/25/22)
Lucas Davis in Politico: Shockwaves (2/25/22)
Severin Borenstein on Cap Radio: Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Oil & Gas Prices (2/24/22)
Severin Borenstein in the SF GATE: California Gas Average Nears $5 a Gallon, Some Counties Already There (2/24/22)
Severin Borenstein in the Washington Post: Yes, Gas Prices Are Up. but Cutting the Gas Tax is Not the Answer. (2/10/22)
Lucas Davis in Good Day Sacramento: Local PG&E Customers Are Seeing Rising Bills — But Why Now? (2/9/22)
Duncan Callaway in the Utility Dive: California’s Omission of Community Solar From Distributed Energy Policies is Short-sighted (2/8/22)
Meredith Fowlie in Undark: To Skirt Air Pollution Oversight, States Can Play Hide and Seek (1/18/22)
Severin Borenstein in San Francisco Examiner: “Solar Tax” Divides Local Environmental Community (1/18/22)
Severin Borenstein in CBS Bay Area: Gov. Newsom Plan Could Put Brakes on California’s Soaring Gas Prices (1/11/22)
Severin Borenstein in The San Diego Union Tribune: Newsom: ‘More Work to be Done’ on California Net Metering Solar Proposal (1/11/22)
Severin Borenstein in E&E News: Price Hike Marks New Era for California Cap and Trade (1/3/22)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: Blackouts and Green Energy: Why California Might Slash Subsidies for Rooftop Solar Panels (1/1/22)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times and KPCC: Everything You Need to Know About California’s Plan to Slash Solar Incentives (12/16/21)
Severin Borenstein in the San Diego Union Tribune: Utilities Commission Releases Proposal for New Rooftop Solar Rules in California (12/13/21)
Severin Borenstein in Grist: Spiking Gas Prices Are a Preview of an Energy Transition Gone Wrong (12/6/21)
Lucas Davis in Grist: Green Incentives Usually Help the Rich. Here’s How the Build Back Better Act Could Change That. (12/2/21)
Severin Borenstein in The Washington Post: Gas Prices Actually Aren’t That High (12/2/21)
Severin Borenstein in Politifact: If You Look Pre-COVID Under President Donald Trump…We Didn’t Import a Single Barrel of Oil from Saudi Arabia. (12/1/21)
Severin Borenstein in the SF Gate: Why Biden Isn’t to Blame for California’s Astronomical Gas Prices (11/24/21)
Severin Borenstein on KTVU: Could California’s Higher Gas Prices Be Illegal? Economist Says Maybe So (11/17/21)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: Everything’s Skyrocketing: Record-High California Gas Prices Add to Holiday Sticker Shock (11/16/21)
Severin Borenstein in the SF Gate: ‘BART is a Unicorn’: I Climbed Up a Wind Turbine That’s Powering the Transit Agency (11/15/21)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: Should California Make Solar More Expensive? (11/4/21)
Severin Borenstein in SFGate and Fox KTVU: Why Are Gas Prices so High in California? Here’s the Main Culprit. (10/29/21)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: Pain at the Pump: California Gas Prices Are Sky High, With One Town Charging Almost $8 a Gallon (10/22/21)
Lucas Davis on CBS News: Americans Are on Track to Use More Coal This Year — First Increase Since 2014 (10/20/21)
Maximilian Auffhammer in Nature and Axios: Make Electric Vehicles Lighter to Maximize Climate and Safety Benefits (10/12/21)
Severin Borenstein on Fox40 News: Hydropower Decline Adds Strain to Power Grids in Drought (10/10/21)
Joseph Shapiro in The Economist: Making Trade Greener (10/6/21)
James Bushnell in Utility Dive: State, Federal Actions Show Growing Push for a Nuclear Role in Reaching Net Zero Emissions (9/28/21)
Severin Borenstein in The Washington Post: What the U.K. and Texas Energy Crises Have in Common (9/24/21)
Lucas Davis in Kleinman Center for Energy Policy: Can Americans Afford to Fully Electrify Their Homes? (9/21/21)
Meredith Fowlie in Black Voice News: Ending the Great Cost Shift: How California’s Poor Subsidize the State’s Solar Lifestyle (9/21/21)
Severin Borenstein in the Star Tribune: Tina Smith Pushes Climate Program Despite Slim Democratic Margins (9/21/21)
Severin Borenstein in The Orange County Register: Going Up: Your Electric Bill. Going Down: Wildfire Risk? (8/23/21)
Lucas Davis in Natural Gas Intelligence: Poor Americans Said Likely to Bear Brunt of Transition from Natural Gas to Renewables (8/10/21)
Severin Borenstein in the Mercury News: Lake Oroville Reaches All-Time Low Level; Hydroelectric Plant Shuts Down for First Time Ever (8/5/21)
Max Auffhammer on Energi Media: Electrifying Big Trucks Only Lowers Emissions With a (Relatively) Clean Grid (8/5/21)
Lucas Davis in the University of Michigan News: Poor Urban, Rural Areas Could Bear Financial Burden of Move From Natural Gas to Electricity for Energy Needs (8/5/21)
Meredith Fowlie on Marketplace: The Legacy of Enron in California’s Power Challenges Today (8/4/21)
Lucas Davis in the Wall Street Journal: How Uber and Lyft Can Save Lives (7/30/21)
Lucas Davis in the Energy and Economic Growth Blog and The Economist: Interview with Lucas Davis on the Electricity and Air Conditioning Project in Sierra Leone (7/21/21)
Severin Borenstein in the Financial Times: Federal Policy, Not Markets, Will Drive the Energy Transition, New Report Says (7/14/2021)
James Bushnell on KRON4: Energy Experts Explain Why California Has So Many Power Alerts Lately (7/13/2021)
Severin Borenstein on CBS Bay Area News: Heat Wave: East Bay Residents Try to Beat the Triple Digit Temperatures (7/11/2021)
Severin Borenstein in The Seattle Times, Marketplace and The Los Angeles Times: Battery-Powered Trains Could Reduce Emissions, Though Diesel is Well-Entrenched (7/7/2021)
Severin Borenstein on Cap Radio and Politifact: Can Californians Charge Electric Cars During Summer Heat? (7/3/2021)
Severin Borenstein in The Mercury News and the Illinois News Today: California Tests Off-the-Grid Solutions to Overworked System (6/30/2021)
Andrew Campbell on ABC 7 News: California’s Improved Power Grids Can Prevent Rolling Outages (6/17/2021)
Severin Borenstein on KTVU, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Sacramento Bee: Californians Might be Asked to Conserve Energy During Heatwave (6/16/2021)
Severin Borenstein on Cap Radio: State Power Grid Preparation, Carbon Free Energy Goals (6/9/2021)
Severin Borenstein in The Coast News Group: Solar Legislation Would Have Long-Lasting Effects on Industry Statewide (6/2/2021)
Meredith Fowlie on the Resources for the Future Podcast: The Lowdown on High Prices (6/1/2021)
Severin Borenstein in the Governing: It Is Not All Sunshine in California’s Rooftop Solar Industry (5/20/2021)
Severin Borenstein in KCRA: Can California’s Power Grid Handle Another Hot Summer (5/19/2021)
Meredith Fowlie in Cal Matters: California’s High Electricity Rates Impede Transition Off Fossil Fuels (5/10/2021)
Severin Borenstein in the Utility Dive: California’s Dilemma: How to Control Skyrocketing Electric Rates While Building The Grid of the Future (4/26/2021)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: Here’s Why California Gas Prices Are So High Compared To Other States (3/29/2021)
Severin Borenstein in the Beaumont Enterprise and KPBS (3/25/2021): California Power Grid Operators Try To Avert Blackout Replay (3/24/2021)
Joseph Shapiro and Reed Walker in the Wall Street Journal: Carbon Tax Sidelined in Biden’s Push on Climate Taxes (3/24/2021)
Meredith Fowlie in the San Francisco Chronicle: PG&E is Changing How Your Electricity Bill Works – Here’s Everything You Need to Know (3/19/2021)
Meredith Fowlie in The Mercury News: Here’s Why Your Electricity Rates are High and Soaring (3/12/2021)
Severin Borenstein in The San Diego Union Tribune: How Much are You Paying in Taxes and Fees for Gasoline in California (3/12/2021)
Severin Borenstein in Vox: Why Every State is Vulnerable to a Texas-style Power Crisis (3/11/2021)
Lucas Davis in Inside Climate News and Bloomberg: A Furious Industry Backlash Greets Moves by California Cities to Ban Natural Gas in New Construction (3/5/2021)
Catherine Wolfram on KQED, Axios, the University of California Pressroom and the Haas Newsroom: To Lead Climate Initiatives at Treasury, Biden Turns to Another UC Berkeley Academic (3/4/2021) The Daily Californian: UC Berkeley professor Catherine Wolfram appointed to serve at US Treasury (3/8/2021)
Severin Borenstein, Meredith Fowlie, and James Sallee in the San Francisco Chronicle, Greentech Media, Politico, LAist, PBS SoCal, Sacramento Business Journal, the Los Angeles Times, CalMatters, Renewable Energy Magazine, the Utility Dive, PV Magazine, Tech Explore, The Daily Californian, The Wall Street Journal, Expert Energy, and Government Technology: California’s Electricity Prices Are So High That Researchers Worry People Won’t Ditch Fossil Fuel (2/23/2021)
Severin Borenstein in the Resources for the Future Podcast, Cap Radio, the Sands Hill Express: Shedding Light on Electricity Blackouts (2/23/2021)
Severin Borenstein in The Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle, and KRON4: Why Wasn’t Texas’ Power Grid Prepared for Cold Weather? (2/18/2021)
James Bushnell and Catherine Wolfram in Axios, Politico, Energy Wire, UChicago News, Daily Democrat, Tech Xplore, Green Car Congress, and Forbes: EV Owners Drive Them Much Less Than Gas-Powered Cars (2/8/2021)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: California Lawmaker Wants to Make Big Businesses Disclose Greenhouse Gas Emissions (1/28/2021)
Lucas Davis in Axios: The Steady Rise of Electricity for Home Heating (1/5/2021)
Reed Walker in the Haas Newsroom: Coming Clean: Examining Racial Disparities in Pollution Exposure (12/4/2020)
Meredith Fowlie in Grist: Cap and Trade-Offs (10/19/2020)
Eva Lyubich in Face 2 Face Africa: Meet Kristal Hansley, the Woman Behind the First Black Female-Owned Solar Company (10/15/2020)
Severin Borenstein on KTVU: California Blackouts Caused Largely by Poor Planning, Preliminary Report Finds (10/9/2020)
Reed Walker in the Berkeley Haas Newsroom: Evidence Shows the Clean Air Act Has Reduced Racial Disparities in Exposure to Pollution (10/9/2020)
Severin Borenstein in Politifact: Gas Prices During the Obama-Biden Administration Were $5.49 a Gallon (9/30/2020)
Meredith Fowlie on Planet Money NPR Podcast: Sell Me Your Climate Bombs (9/25/2020)
Severin Borenstein on KCRW: Pros and Cons of Gas Power Plants (9/23/2020)
Severin Borenstein in the Governing: California to Take On Climate Change, But at What Cost? (9/21/2020)
Severin Borenstein on KQED: Wildfire Smoke Decreases California Solar Energy Output (9/11/2020)
Maximilian Auffhammer on KPIX: UC Climate Experts Warn California Wildfires, Extreme Weather Events Will Get Worse (9/10/2020)
Severin Borenstein on KQED: Heat Wave Strain on State’s Power Grid and PG&E’s Warning (9/7/2020)
Severin Borenstein on KPIX: Bay Area Braces For Holiday Weekend Heat Wave, Call For Power Conservation (9/5/2020)
Lucas Davis in Forbes: A Lesson For U.S. Shale Executives From Rio Tinto (8/24/2020)
Andrew Campbell and Lucas Davis in The Oaklandside and Berkeleyside: Rolling Blackouts: What Oaklanders Need to Know, and What to Expect (8/21/2020)
Severin Borenstein on Capital Public Radio: California Wildfires, Solutions, Connection To Climate Change / Sound Advice (08/20/2020)
Severin Borenstein on NPR and KQED, CBS Sacramento, Capital Public Radio: Climate Change Lesson From California’s Blackouts: Prepare For Extremes (8/19/2020)
James Bushnell in the Fresno Bee: California Power Prices Have Skyrocketed. Is This Normal — Or More Enron-Style ‘Manipulation’? (8/19/2020)
Eva Lyubich in the Resources for the Future Podcast and Texas Public Radio: Equity and Electricity: Race Gap in Household Energy Use (8/18/2020)
Severin Borenstein on CNBC: A Flood of Job Losses Looms as Airline Industry Struggles in Pandemic (8/16/2020)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle and The Daily Wire: Wild Bay Area Weather Expected to Continue Overnight Sunday With Lightning, Gusty Winds and Fires (8/16/2020)
Severin Borenstein in the Sacramento Bee, KCRA, KPCC, the Merced Sun Star, the San Francisco Examiner, The Tribune, and the Rome News-Tribune: California Avoided Rolling Blackouts for Two Decades. What Went Wrong on The Grid? (8/15/2020)
Severin Borenstein on NBC Los Angeles, The Fresno Bee, Times Herald, East Bay Times, Marin Independent Journal, Good Day Sacramento, and KCBS: Who Turned Off the Lights? Heat Puts the Squeeze on California’s Power Grid (8/14/2020)
Severin Borenstein on KPIX: Phillips 66 Refinery In Rodeo Converting To Renewable Fuels (8/12/2020)
Severin Borenstein in The Mercury News: Marathon Refinery Closure Could Signal Big Transition for Area Refineries (8/8/2020)
Meredith Fowlie in Axios: Biden’s 100% Carbon-Free Hurdle (8/5/2020)
Severin Borenstein on KQED: Major California Oil Producer Falls Victim to Collapse in Crude Prices Amid Pandemic (7/16/2020)
Severin Borenstein on PolitiFact: U.S. Nears ‘Energy Independence’ Trump Promised During 2016 Campaign (7/15/2020)
Lucas Davis in The Economist: How CEO Pay in America Got Out Whack (6/11/2020)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: California’s Gas Tax Is Going Up Again. You Should Be Pleased. (6/25/2020)
Eva Lyubich in Axios, EENews and The Hill: The Persistent Racial Disparities In U.S. Energy Expenses (6/23/2020)
Severin Borenstein in CNBC: How Negative Oil Prices Revealed he Dangers of the Futures Market (6/16/2020)
Reed Walker in E&E News: Soot Rule Thrusts EPA Into Spotlight on Race (6/12/2020)
Severin Borenstein in Utility Dive: Shrinking Fossil Fuel Demand Could Hit California’s Cap-And-Trade Auction, Experts Say (5/18/2020)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: California AG Sues Two Gasoline Firms for Alleged Price Manipulation (5/4/2020)
Joseph Shapiro in Bloomberg, Axios, Science News, Newsbreak, the Washington Examiner (Article 1 and Article 2), PhysOrg, the Daily Californian, The Energy Mix, Berkeley News, The Real News Network, Patch, Carbon Pulse, The Real News, Energy Post, and The Niskanen Center: How Global Trade Pacts Award ‘Subsidies’ for Climate Pollution (5/4/2020)
Severin Borenstein on KTVU, The San Diego Union Tribune, and KPIX 5: Oil Prices Fall Into Negative Territory (4/20/2020)
Severin Borenstein in WTVR CBS: Price of Oil Gives Relief to Drivers but Could Damage Communities in Oil Country (4/3/2020)
Severin Borenstein in Quartz: Will Your Electricity Bill Go Up If You’re Working From Home? (3/26/2020)
Andrew Campbell in Energy Wire: PG&E Inks Deal With Governor, Opening Path Out of Bankruptcy (3/23/2020)
Severin Borenstein in the Wall Street Journal: Hotels Seek $150 Billion in Aid as Travel Plummets (3/17/2020)
Severin Borenstein in the SF Chronicle: Coronavirus Effect: California Gas Prices to Drop Amid Turmoil. (3/10/2020)
James Bushnell in Vox: Can You Really Negate Your Carbon Emissions? Carbon Offsets, Explained. (2/27/2020)
Meredith Fowlie in S&P Global Platts: Fossil Fuel Use Bumps Up GHG Emissions for First Time In 13 Years (2/24/2020)
Matthew Tarduno in Axios: Ride-Hailing’s Congestion Effects (2/13/2020)
Severin Borenstein on the Capital Public Radio News: California Could Take Over PG&E Under A Proposed Bill. But Could The Plan Work? (2/6/2020)
Stephen Jarvis in Forbes, the Financial Times, WIRED, and Grist: As The Costs Of Germany’s Nuclear Phase Out Mount, Little Appetite For A Rethink (1/11/2020)
Severin Borenstein in the Wall Street Journal: Five Ways to Fix PG&E (12/28/2019)
James Bushnell in the Sacramento Bee: Solar Panels Now Required On New California Homes. Why That’s So Controversial in Sacramento. (12/27/2019)
Andrew Campbell in PoliticoPro: Fossil Fuel Industry Cooking With Gas in Fight Against California (12/26/2019)
Severin Borenstein on WGME: Are Private or Public Electric Utilities Cheaper? (12/23/2019)
Susanna Berkouwer in the Oxford Policy Management Blog: Power For the People: How Should Governments Develop Electric Grids? (12/17/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KSCO Radio: California Gas Prices (12/17/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KPIX: Solar Panels Will Soon Be Required For Newly Constructed Homes In California (12/16/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the San Diego Union Tribune: California’s High-Voltage Battle Between Utilities and Rooftop Solar Could Impact Electric Bills (12/15/2019)
James Bushnell in the Los Angeles Times: California Now Has 1 Million Solar Roofs. Are 1 Million Batteries Next? (12/12/2019)
Reed Walker in Bloomberg: Rich Californians Shell Out $30,000 to Avoid Blackout Pain (11/26/2019)
Severin Borenstein in AXIOS: PG&E Notes: Ownership, Microgrids, Beer (11/13/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Modesto Bee: PG&E Gets All the Blame for Deadly Wildfires. But Do California Regulators Go Easy On Them? (11/6/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KPCC: Gov. Newsom Floated The Idea Of A State Takeover Of PG&E. How Would That Look And How Would It Impact Customers? (11/5/2019)
Severin Borenstein on Marketplace: California Mayors Want Customers to Run PG&E (11/5/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KQED: Solar and Batteries Work in a Blackout, But What Does That Mean for the Grid? (11/4/2019)
Severin Borenstein on NPR: What Power Outages Mean For Solar’s Potential (11/4/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Financial Times: Fires Force Californians to Face up to a Changing Landscape (11/3/2019)
Maximilian Auffhammer and Severin Borenstein in the Texarcana Gazette: Gridlock on the Grid | California’s Blackouts Could Make the Battle Against Climate Change Even Harder. (11/1/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KCBS Radio: Power Shutoffs, Evacuations the New Normal? Maybe. (11/1/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KCBS Radio: Energy Expert Used Car To Power Home During PG&E Shutoffs (11/1/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Capital Public Radio News: Californians Will Be Turning Their Clocks Back This Fall Despite Voting Last Year To Explore Alternatives (11/1/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: Many Residents Are Buying Generators to Get Through PG&E Outages. Here’s What You Need to Know. (11/1/2019)
Severin Borenstein on NPR: The Future of PG&E (10/31/2019)
Severin Borenstein in Mercury News: Who’s to Blame for California’s Planned Power Outages? Some Say PG&E, Others Say Politicians (10/30/2019)
Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell in the San Francisco Chronicle: Everyone Wants to Fix PG&E. And Everyone — Taxpayers — Will Be Paying for It. (10/30/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: California’s Blackouts Could Make Fighting Climate Change Even Harder (10/29/2019)
Severin Borenstein the Merced Sun-Star: Smoke From Wildfires a Greater Risk to Kids and Seniors Than First Thought, Scientists Say (10/28/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Wall Street Journal: PG&E Power Lines Remain Risky to California, Even During Blackouts (10/25/2019)
Severin Borenstein in The Economist: Why California Can’t Quit PG&E (10/24/2019)
Andrew Campbell on KTVU: Gas Prices Have Mysteriously Stayed High Since 2015 (10/23/2019)
Andrew Campbell in PoliticoPro: Should the State Take Control of Wildfire Blackouts? (10/23/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the San Diego Union Tribune: What’s Behind the ‘Mystery Surcharge’ at Some California Gas Stations? (10/23/2019)
Maximilian Auffhammer in the Los Angeles Times: California Ditched Coal. The Gas Company is Worried it’s Next. (10/22/2019)
Andrew Campbell on KPIX: State To Begin Investigation Into Gas Prices In California Boom (10/22/2019)
Severin Borenstein In Bloomberg: California Prepares for a Huge Solar Boom (10/22/2019)
Severin Borenstein KPCC: Too Darn High: Governor Gavin Newsom Calls For An Investigation Of Gas Prices (10/22/2019)
Severin Borenstein on ABC7 News: NuStar Energy Fire: What is Ethanol Anyway? (10/16/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: What Will the Next Heavy Winds Bring? Assessing the Great Power Shut-off of 2019 (10/15/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Government Technology: PG&E Put the Burden of Halting Fires on Millions of Californians (10/14/2019)
Severin Borenstein on Q13Fox, the Lincoln Journal Star, The Oregonian, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal: Do California Power Shutoffs Work? Hard to Know, Experts Say (10/14/2019)
Lucas Davis in the Wall Street Journal: Americans Are No Longer Gluttons for Electricity—Thank the LED Bulb (10/11/2019)
Severin Borenstein on PBS News, the San Francisco Chronicle, ABC News, the Sky Statement, La Presse, France24, and MarketWatch: Millions Are Out of Power in California, But Were the PG&E Shutoffs Necessary? (10/11/2019)
Severin Borenstein on BBC Newsday: California Electricity (10/11/2019)
Catherine Wolfram in the Sandhills Express: How The California Power Outages Reduce Wildfire Risk: What You Need to Know(10/10/2019)
Catherine Wolfram on VOA: US Central Bank Sets Plan of Action on Climate Change (10/10/2019)
Catherine Wolfram on ABC7: Blackouts May Cost State $2.6 Billion, I-Team Investigates (10/10/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: California’s Huge, Humiliating Power Outages Expose the Vulnerabilities of PG&E’s Power Grid (10/10/2019)
Catherine Wolfram on Marketplace: Massive Power Shut-off Would Cost Businesses in California (10/8/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: Gas Prices Spike Above $4 in San Francisco and Across California (10/7/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KNX: Frustrated Over Possible Gas Price Gouging? Unsure Whether To Eat That Steak? (10/1/2019)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: California May Postpone Shutdown of Power Plants That Kill Fish and Sea Lions. Here’s Why. (9/24/2019)
Maximilian Auffhammer and James Bushnell in the San Francisco Chronicle: California’s Power Supply is Getting Greener. It’s Still Got Far To Go. (9/23/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KTVU: Drone Attack on Saudi Arabia Has Real Wallet Consequences in America (9/14/2019 and 9/16/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KTVU: San Francisco Offers $2.5B for PG&E’s Equipment, Power Lines in the City (9/9/2019)
James Bushnell in Politico: California Raises the Caution Flag On ‘Green Jobs’ (9/4/2019)
Lucas Davis in the New York Times and The Hill: White House to Relax Energy Efficiency Rules for Light Bulbs (9/4/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KQED: PG&E, SoCal Edison, and SDG&E Push to Boost Shareholder Profit (9/3/2019)
Severin Borenstein in Bloomberg: Sometimes, a Greener Grid Means a 40,000% Spike in Power Prices (8/29/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: PG&E Wants to Gradually Add $30 Per Month to the Average Residential Bill (8/26/2019)
James Bushnell in the San Francisco Chronicle: Clean Energy Powers California Climate Emissions Drop (8/12/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KQED: California Strikes Emissions Deal with Major Carmakers (7/25/2019)
Lucas Davis and James Sallee in CityLab and the Pacific Standard: Should Electric Vehicle Drivers Pay Per Mile? (7/24/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the NY Times and San Francisco Chronicle: California, New York Racing to Cut Emissions, But Each Faces Major Obstacles. (7/9/2019)
Severin Borenstein in The Economist: Can American States Slow Global Warming On Their Own? (6/29/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KQED: Why Is Gas So Expensive in the Bay Area? (6/27/2019)
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis in the Washington Post and SF Gate: In Lobbying Battle for Electric Vehicle Tax Credit, It’s Car Makers vs. Oil and Gas Industry (6/24/2019)
Meredith Fowlie in the New York Times: Blue States Roll Out Aggressive Climate Strategies. Red States Keep to the Sidelines. (6/21/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: Price of Gas to Jump More Than Nickel a Gallon on July 1 (6/19/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KCRW: UC Faculty Fossil Fuel Divestment Vote (6/12/2019)
Severin Borenstein on NPR: Contentious Oregon Climate Plan Takes Lessons From California’s Mistakes (6/6/2019)
James Bushnell in the Los Angeles Times: California Has Too Much Solar Power. That Might Be Good for Ratepayers. (6/5/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KCBS: Gas Prices Top 4 Dollars in the Bay Area (5/7/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KQED: PG&E Profits Plummet Amid Bankruptcy, and SEC Probe Adds to Utility’s Troubles (5/2/2019)
Meredith Fowlie in Axios: How Economists Can Live With Mandates (4/30/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the LA Times: Californians Want Answers on High Gas Prices — but Politicians Rarely Deliver(4/26/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle, AP News, NBC Bay Area, Fox Business, KSRO, and the Trucker: Newsom Calls for Investigation Into California’s High Gas Prices (4/24/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: Gas Is $4 Per Gallon in California. It Might Stay High for a While (4/22/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Daily Cal: UC Berkeley Business Professor Finds $20B Surplus Charge in California Gas Prices (4/21/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Orange County Register: Mystery Surcharge’ and Gas Taxes Boost California Gasoline Prices by About $1.26 per Gallon (4/16/2019)
Severin Borenstein in Power Mag: The Economic Thicket of Generating Cost Comparisons (4/1/2019)
Severin Borenstein in KGO TV/ABC7 News: Benicia Refinery Is Down, So Gas Prices Are Up (3/28/2019)
Catherine Wolfram in the IEEE Spectrum: A Power Line to Every Home: India Closes In on Universal Electrification (3/20/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: Public Takeover of PG&E? Sacramento’s Past Provides Important Lessons (3/18/2019)
Lucas Davis in the SF Gate: Trump Administration Could Hamper Shift to More Efficient Light Bulbs (3/16/2019)
Cleantech to Market Program in the U.S. News & World Report: How B-School Partnerships Can Help You Land a Job (3/14/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: California Wants to Reform PG&E, But Just How Is Uncertain (3/11/2019)
Severin Borenstein in CBS 8 San Diego: Daylight Saving Time: San Diegans React to Time Change (3/10/2019)
Lucas Davis in the New York Times, The Bulletin, and the SF Gate: America’s Light Bulb Revolution (3/8/2019)
Joseph Shapiro and Reed Walker in the LSE US Centre Daily Blog: US Factories Are Polluting Less, But Regulation Rollbacks Threaten Air Quality (3/2/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Sierra Club: It’s Time for California to Get Out of the Oil Business (3/1/2019)
Catherine Wolfram in the California Magazine: The Green New Deal: The Good, the Bad, and the Eco-Friendly (3/1/2019)
Lucas Davis on KPCC Air Talk: San Bernardino County Has Voted to Restrict Development of Large Solar Energy Projects (3/1/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Sentinel: CCA and Your Housing Budget (2/28/2019)
Meredith Fowlie in Utility Drive: Enabling Storage Integration Through Market-Driven Procurements (2/25/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the San Fransisco Chronicle: Can California Homes and Businesses Quit Natural Gas? Some Say Yes (2/19/2019)
Catherine Wolfram in the Economist: Electricity Does Not Change Poor Lives as Much as We Thought (2/12/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KALW City Visions: What Can Be Done About PG&E? (2/4/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Sacramento Bee: ‘A Statewide Problem.’ How PG&E’s Bankruptcy Could Soil California’s Green-Energy Movement (1/31/2019)
Severin Borenstein on Planet Money’s The Indicator Podcast: Lights Out For PG&E? (1/31/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Sacramento Bee: Gas is Getting More and More Expensive. California Lawmakers Demand an Investigation (1/30/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Marin Independent Journal: Marin Energy Aggregator Could Benefit from PG&E Bankruptcy (1/30/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Northern California Record: Other Industries Could End Up Facing Wild Fire-Climate Change Litigation like PG&E, Business Expert Predicts (1/29/2019)
Severin Borenstein in NBC Bay Area: Mystery Surcharge at the Pump Prompts California Drivers to Ask Where Their Money is Going (1/29/2019)
Severin Borenstein in KTVU Fox: Lawmakers Request California DOJ Investigation into Mystery Gas Surcharge (1/29/2019)
Severin Borenstein in Mother Jones: California’s Wildfires Drove Its Biggest Utility to Bankruptcy. But Fire Prevention Could Suffer Because of It. (1/24/2019)
Severin Borenstein Appointed to CAISO Board of Governors: Prof. Severin Borenstein Appointed to Board Overseeing California’s Electric Grid (1/23/2019)
Severin Borenstein on KQED: Shutdown’s Toll on California, PG&E Challenge for Lawmakers (1/18/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: SF Supervisors Look at Windfall as Potential Source of PG&E Acquisition Money (1/16/2019)
Severin Borenstein in SF Gate: The Future of a Bankrupt PG&E May Be a Breakup (1/16/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: Energy Whiz Severin Borenstein on Keeping the Lights on and the Fires Out After PG&E’s Bankruptcy (1/16/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the New York Times: PG&E Restructuring Highlights Arcane California Legal Rule (1/15/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Sacramento Bee: ‘PG&E is Going to Have to Pay.’ Sympathy is Gone for Utility Facing Bankruptcy (1/15/2019)
Severin Borenstein in KQED News: PG&E Customers, Employees Brace for Fallout from Bankruptcy Announcement (1/15/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Business Times: The 7 Questions Swirling Around PG&E Pending Bankruptcy (1/14/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the Financial Times: California Wildfire Costs Push PG&E to Bankruptcy (1/14/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: PG&E in Trouble: Will the Lights Stay On? Will Customers Pay More? (1/7/2019)
Lucas Davis in the Wall Street Journal: Real Time Economics: The State of the Economy and of Economics (1/7/2019)
Severin Borenstein in NBC News: Trump Claims Credit for Cheap Gas. Experts Say It’s Not So Simple. (1/1/2019)
Severin Borenstein in the New York Times: How Does Your State Make Electricity? (12/24/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: Forget Limiting Uber and Lyft Vehicles to Reduce Congestion (12/24/2018)
Severin Borenstein on KCSB Radio’s In Depth: Utilities, Insurance Industry Adapt to California’s Fire Disasters (12/14/2018)
Cleantech to Market in Haas Newsroom: Top 10 Haas Stories of 2018 (12/12/2018)
James Sallee in the Los Angeles Times: Trump Fuel Economy Rollback is Based on Misleading and Shoddy Calculations, Study Finds (12/6/2018)
Cleantech to Market in Haas Newsroom: Cleantech to Market Celebrates 10 Years of Success (11/29/2018)
Lucas Davis and Severin Borenstein in Bloomberg: Big Oil Doesn’t Like EV Subsidies, Just Its Own Giant Subsidy (11/19/2018)
Lucas Davis in the Herald-Mail Media: Utilities Face Massive Liabilities Amid Wildfires (11/16/2018)
Severin Borenstein on KALW: Working and Homeless, Mystery Gas Surcharge, Bay Area Beats (11/13/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the San Diego Union-Tribune: Is California Going the Way of Germany When It Comes to Energy? (11/11/2018)
Lucas Davis in Axios Generate: Trump’s Deferred Iran Oil Reckoning — Key State Ballot Fights — Important EV Metric (11/6/2018)
James Sallee in the Atlantic: The Trump Administration Flunked Its Math Homework (10/31/18)
Severin Borenstein in the California Magazine: What’s The Deal with Daylight Saving Time?(10/30/18)
Severin Borenstein in KPCC: AirTalk Debates 2018 Ballot Initiatives: Prop 7 — Daylight-Saving Time (10/24/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: Forget the Gas Tax. Let’s Get to the Bottom of California’s 22-Cents-A-Gallon Mystery Surcharge (10/11/2018)
Severin Borenstein in KABC: Prof Says Prop 7 to End Time Change Will Cause More Disruptions (10/11/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: Prop. 7: California Considers Full-Time Daylight Savings, End of Changing Clocks (10/5/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Mercury News and EB Times: What Does Daylight Saving Time Really Save? (9/27/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Cal Alumni Association: A Day Late and A Summit Short: Can California Save the World? (9/26/2018)
Severin Borenstein on ABC7 News: 2018 VOTER GUIDE: A Look At California’s Proposition 7: Permanent Daylight Saving Measure (9/25/2018)
Lucas Davis in the Financial Times: Less is More as Domestic Energy Consumption Falls (9/24/2018)
Severin Borenstein in Governing: California Could Be The Next State to Ditch Daylight Saving Time (9/24/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: Jerry Brown May Not Be The Ultimate Climate Crusader, But He’s a Lot Closer Than Most Politicians (9/13/2018)
Lucas Davis in Power Technology: Proof of Climate Change: How Do We Cool a Heating World? (9/12/2018)
Reed Walker in the Phoenix New Times: Trump’s Proposed Emissions Rule Will Choke Efforts to Clean Polluted Phoenix Air (9/11/2018)
Severin Borenstein in Bloomberg: Jerry Brown Is the Face of America’s Climate-Change Resistance (9/11/2018)
Lucas Davis in the Financial Times: The Week In Energy: Dirty Oil, Clean Oil (9/8/2018)
James Bushnell in the Economist: More Solar Power Hurts Nuclear Energy. But It Also Hurts Itself (9/8/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Climate Liability News: Disappointment Shadows Jerry Brown’s Climate Legacy in California (9/5/2018)
Catherine Wolfram in the Mercury News: What Are You Getting if You Buy Clean Electricity (9/5/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: California Wants 100% Clean Power by 2045. Wishful Thinking? (9/3/2018)
Lucas Davis on KQED: California Ups the Ante: 100 Percent Clean Energy by 2045 (8/29/2018)
Severin Borenstein in The Tribune: An All-Renewable Energy Grid ‘Definitely Feasible’ for California. But at What Cost? (8/29/2018)
James Bushnell in Utility Dive: Renewables Push CAISO Prices Lower, Threaten Inflexible Generation (8/28/2018)
Severin Borenstein in Mother Jones: California Lawmakers Just Voted to Make All Its Electricity Emissions-Free by 2045 (8/28/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the MIT Technology Review: California Advances an Ambitious Climate Policy That Should Be a Model for the World (8/28/2018)
Max Auffhammer in the Los Angeles Times: Climate Change Will Be Deadlier, More Destructive and Costlier for California than Previously Believed, State Warns (8/27/2018)
James Bushnell in Cal Matters: The Green Economy: Is California’s Bid to Lead the World 0n Climate Solutions Paying Off at Home? (8/22/2018)
Reed Walker in Grist: Trump’s Power Plan Proposal Is “About Coal at All Costs” (8/21/2018)
Andrew Campbell in Axios: On My Screen: EVs, Bitcoin, Venezuela (8/21/2018)
Reed Walker in Mother Jones: Even Trump’s EPA Admits His Power Plan Will Kill Thousands of Americans (8/21/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: Keep California Oil in the Ground? The Goal Is Good, But the Policy Doesn’t Pencil Out (8/16/2018)
Catherine Wolfram in Bloomberg BNA: California’s Zero-Carbon Bill Aims to Set Climate Example (8/15/2018)
Reed Walker in the Daily Californian: UC Berkeley Economists Show That Environmental Regulations Play Primary Role in Pollution Decrease (8/14/2018)
Reed Walker in UPI: U.S. Environmental Regulations Curbed Air Pollution, Study Shows (8/9/2018)
James Bushnell in Grist: Hot Weather Strains the Grid. Here’s How We Could Fix That. (7/30/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: California Is Cutting Greenhouse Gases, But Not From Cars. Can That Change? (7/16/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the San Diego Union Tribune: California Already Reached Its 2020 Goal for Cutting Emissions. Now What? (7/12/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Engineering News Record: California Begins to Consider Solar on Commercial Buildings (7/11/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Sacramento Bee: California Beats Its 2020 Goals for Cutting Greenhouse Gases (7/11/2018)
Lucas Davis in the Tree Hugger: Why Is the Trump Administration Putting a Tariff on Chinese LEDs? (7/6/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: Year-round Daylight Saving Time? More Dark Mornings Is Just One Downside (7/5/2018)
Severin Borenstein on Fox KTVU: Electrifying Transportation in San Francisco, Advocates Push for New Generation of Buses (6/14/2018)
Lucas Davis in the PEW Charitable Trusts: It’s Wildfire Season in California, And Utilities Want to Tamp Down Their Liability (6/7/2018)
Meredith in CNR News and STL News: Fowlie Appointed to Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee (6/5/2018)
Severin Borenstein on KUT 90.5: In Austin, Energy Secretary Perry Pushes for Coal and Nuclear Bailout (6/4/2018)
Lucas Davis in the National Economics 101: Is Energy-Efficient Housing a Waste of Money? (6/3/2018)
Severin Borenstein, Lucas Davis, and Catherine Wolfram in the Cal Alumni: 7 Things to Know About California’s New Solar Panel Policy (5/31/2018)
Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell in the San Diego Union Tribune: The New Solar Mandate: A Leap Forward or a Step Back? (5/28/2018)
Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell in the Sacramento Bee: California’s Rooftop Decree May Be Hasty. Don’t Let the Sun Shine in Just Yet (5/27/2018)
James Bushnell in the MIT Technology Review: California Is Throttling Back Record Levels of Solar—And That’s Bad News for Climate Goals (5/24/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Argus Courier: Here’s Why You’re Paying so Much More at the Pump This Memorial Day (5/24/2018)
Lucas Davis in the Christian Science Monitor: Is Ditching Fossil Fuels Entirely a Reasonable Goal? (5/24/2018)
Severin Borenstein on KQED: Why are Bay Area Gas Prices on the Rise? (5/22/2018)
James Bushnell in the Salon: California’s New Solar Rooftop Mandate Could Be Better (5/21/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Door and Window Market Magazine: A Look at California’s New Solar Panel Regulation (5/21/2018)
James Bushnell in Washington’s Top News: Why California’s New Rooftop Mandate Isn’t Good Enough for Some Solar Power Enthusiasts (5/21/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Daily Bruin: Requiring Newly Built Houses to Have Solar Panels Will Do More Harm Than Good (5/20/2018)
James Sallee in the Financial Times: Regulations’ Unintended Consequences (5/19/2018)
James Bushnell in the San Francisco Chronicle: The Clean-Energy Home of the Future … Outside Fresno (5/17/2018)
James Bushnell in the Idyllwild Town Crier: Solar Panels Will Be Required for New Residential Construction (5/16/2018)
Meredith Fowlie in Engadget: Regulation Has Helped, Not Hindered California’s Green Economy (5/16/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Voice of America: California to Require Solar Power for New Homes (5/16/2018)
Lucas Davis in the Seattle Times: By Trying to Keep Cool, We May Make the World Warmer (5/15/2018)
Severin Borenstein in Vox: California Will Require Solar Panels on All New Homes. That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing. (5/15/2018)
Lucas Davis in the New York Times: The World Wants Air-Conditioning. That Could Warm the World. (5/15/2018)
James Sallee in Forbes: Fuel Economy Standards Are Supersizing Our Vehicles. Ford Scrapping Small Cars Is an Alarm Bell. (5/14/2018)
Severin Borenstein in Bloomberg: Let’s Talk About Net Present Value and Solar Panels (5/13/2018)
Severin Borenstein in ZAWYA: California Helps Paris Send Solar Message (5/13/2018)
James Bushnell in the Financial Times: The Week In Energy: Iran and The Oil Price (5/12/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Chicago Tribune: California’s Bad Solar Remedy For Climate Change (5/11/2018)
Lucas Davis on KJZZ and Care2: California Mandates Solar Power on All Newly-Built Homes (5/11/2018)
Severin Borenstein in Axios: California’s Controversial Solar Push (5/10/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the New York Times: Do Pipelines Really Create Lots of Jobs? (5/10/2018)
Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell in Forbes: California’s Solar Roof Law Will Raise Housing And Energy Prices But Do Little To Reduce Emissions (5/10/2018)
Lucas Davis in USA Today: Rooftop Solar to Be Required on New Homes in California (5/10/2018)
Lucas Davis in CNBC: California Regulators Approve Plan to Mandate Solar Panels on New Home Construction (5/9/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the MIT Technology Review: California’s Rooftop Solar Rule as a Pricey Path to Emissions Reductions (5/9/2018)
Lucas Davis in NPR: California Moves Forward With Plan to Require Solar Panels on New Homes (5/9/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: California’s Power Grid Is Changing Fast, and ‘We Don’t Have a Plan’ (5/3/2018)
Severin Borenstein in SF Gate: California Governor Battles Trump to Save Environmental Legacy (5/2/2018)
Severin Borenstein in Bloomberg: Governor Moonbeam’s Got One Last Fight Against Trump Left in Him (5/1/2018)
James Bushnell in CleanTechnica: Unpacking All the Bad News About Renewable Energy & Energy Storage (4/30/2018)
James Bushnell in Forbes: If Solar and Wind Are So Cheap, Why Are They Making Electricity So Expensive? (4/23/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Tree Hugger: In California, People Without Rooftop Solar Panels Pay a $65 Per Year Subsidy to Those With Them (4/18/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Press Democrat: PD Editorial: A Mystery Charge at the Gas Pump in California (4/18/2018)
Lucas Davis in the Energy Collective: Let’s Be Clear: Solar Energy Benefits Everyone (4/16/2018)
Severin Borenstein on KPCC: Californians Are Losing Out on Billions Annually Due to a Mysterious Gas Surcharge (4/11/2018)
Severin Borenstein in GV Wire: Californians Pay $10 Million a Day More Than They Should for Gas (4/10/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the La Jolla Patch: Why CA Drivers Spend Billions More on Gas (4/5/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the San Diego Union Tribune: The Missing Billions Spent on Gasoline in California Each Year (4/8/2018)
James Sallee in the California Magazine: Will the EPA Really Trump California’s Fuel Standards (4/5/2018)
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis in the Africom: Tesla Extending Sell-Off After Moody’s Cuts Credit Rating (3/29/2018)
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis in the Washington Post: It Isn’t Bad Policy to Promote Electric Cars (3/28/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Industry Week and Bloomberg: How California Taught China to Sell Electric Cars (3/27/2018)
Lucas Davis in the Mercury News: Don’t Have Solar? You’re Paying More Because Others Do, UC Berkeley Prof Says (3/27/2018)
The Energy Institute in the RTO Insider: Berkeley Looks at EVs, Markets, Gas Withholding (3/27/2018)
Lucas Davis and Severin Borenstein in the Washington Post and the Columbia Daily Herald: All Those Fancy Electric Cars? You Helped Pay for Them (3/25/2018)
Lucas Davis in Clean Technica: California Utilities Say Climate Change Caused Recent Fires, Not Them (3/22/2018)
Lucas Davis in Think Progress: California’s Historic Wildfire Season Puts Financial Squeeze on the State’s Utilities (3/19/2018)
Catherine Wolfram in the Interpreter: Aid and Development Links: Chinese Aid Agency, Electrification in Kenya, and More (3/19/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the MIT Technology Review: At This Rate, It’s Going to Take Nearly 400 Years to Transform the Energy System (3/14/2018)
Lucas Davis in the Climate Liability News: California Utilities, Climate Change and Wildfires: A Liability Quagmire (3/12/2018)
James Bushnell in the Yale Climate Connections: Reggie’ States Addressing Transportation Emissions (3/8/2018)
Lucas Davis in the New York Times: Is Bitcoin a Waste of Electricity, Or Something Worse? (2/28/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Colorado Boulevard: Should CA Legislators Be Investigating High Gas Prices? (2/28/2018)
Severin Borenstein in Politifact: Ryan Zinke Wrong That Gas Prices Are Down 40% Under Trump (2/26/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Napa Valley Register: Wildfires Inspire New Idea: Charging Rural Customers More for Electricity (2/19/2018)
Maximilian Auffhammer in the San Francisco Chronicle: Why the Bitcoin Revolution Is Emptying Store Shelves and Making Gamers Mad (1/29/2018)
Lucas Davis and Severin Borenstein in the Grist: Is Nuclear Power Really That Expensive (1/26/2018)
Severin Borenstein in Utility Dive: Is Cap and Trade the Climate Solution? The Jury’s Still Out (1/19/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angelas Times: No Longer Termed a ‘Failure’, California’s Cap-and-Trade Program Faces a New Critique: Is It Too Successful? (1/12/2018)
Severin Borenstein on KUT Austin: Perry’s Plan to Prop Up Nuclear, Coal Power Fails as Another Texas Coal Plant Closes (1/12/2018)
James Bushnell on Marketplace: With Increased Wildfires, Utilities In California Are Trying to Pass on the Cost Damages to Customers (1/2/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Davis Vanguard: California’s Got a New Plan to Hit Its 2030 Emissions Target – But, Are We Aiming at the Right Target? (1/2/2018)
Severin Borenstein in the Canada Free Press: It’s Easy For Santa To Move Coal (12/21/2017)
Meredith Fowlie in the Union of Concerned Scientists: Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards – Under Fire? (12/1/2017)
Severin Borenstein in Axios Generate and Carbon Pulse Railroad Price Cuts Are Slowing Coal’s Decline: Study (11/ 28/2017)
James Bushnell in the Aggie: Transforming the UC’s Energy Portfolio (11/ 21/2017)
Lucas Davis on Inside Sources: With The Growth Of Energy Saving Appliances, Why Aren’t Electric Bills Lower? (11/15/2017)
Max Auffhammer in the Berkeley News Climate Video Series: Pricing Carbon Emissions (11/14/2017)
Severin Borenstein in MotherJones Chart of the Day: California’s Mysteriously High Gasoline Prices (11/12/2017)
Severin Borenstein in Politifact George Runner Was Right: California Now Has The Highest Gas Prices In The Nation (11/6/2017)
Severin Borenstein on Recordnet.com: What Will California’s Gas Tax Hike Do For San Joaquin Roads? (11/3/2017)
Severin Borenstein on Cal Matters, GV Wire and The Fresno Bee Commentary: As Gas Taxes Jump, Motorists May Wonder Where They’re Going (11/2/2017)
Lucas Davis in Intertraffic World: Smog Solutions – Mexico City (11/1/2017)
Severin Borenstein on Capital Public Radio: California Fuel Taxes Rise Wednesday (11/1/2017)
James Bushnell on ABC10: Does ‘Winter Blend’ Lower Gas Prices? (10/31/2017)
Severin Borenstein on KUT Austin: Perry’s Plan Would Subsidize Coal and Nuclear Power – But It Wouldn’t Apply to Texas (10/30/2017)
Meredith Fowlie and Catherine Wolfram in Bloomberg Businessweek: Sacramento Nudges People to Use Less Electricity at Peak Hours (10/17/2017)
Lucas Davis in Nextcity.org: Madrid’s Getting Close to “Plan A” Rollout to Fight Air Pollution (10/16/2017)
Catherine Wolfram in Newswise: New Study Finds Expected Savings from School Energy Efficiency Upgrade Outpace Actual Returns (09/27/2017)
Severin Borenstein in the Nevada Independent: For Utilities Like NV Energy, Rooftop Solar is ‘The Tip of the Iceberg’ (09/25/2017)
Lucas Davis in Business Green: Electricity Demand in Southern Europe to Soar With Air Con – Scientists (08/29/2017)
Severin Borenstein on ABC7 News: Hurricane Harvey May Drive Gas Prices Higher Around the Country, But Not in California (08/28/2017)
Severin Borenstein in the LA Times: Should California Spend $3 Billion to Help People Buy Electric Cars? (08/27/2017)
Severin Borenstein in Nature: California Scientists Push to Create Massive Climate-Research Programme (08/16/2017)
Severin Borenstein in Politifact: Exaggerations on Red Tape, Gas Prices and Defense Costs (07/31/2017)
Severin Borenstein in the New York Times: Just How Far Can California Possibly Go on Climate? (07/26/2017)
Severin Borenstein in Politifact: Yes, Chuck Schumer, Oil Prices Do Sometimes Fall (07/25/2017)
Severin Borenstein in the Mercury News: California Attorney General Sues to Prevent Valero Acquisition (07/20/2017)
Andrew Campbell in Marinij.com: Marin-Based Renewable Electricity Supplier Doubles in Size With New Members (07/21/2017)
Reed Walker in Capital & Main For Whom the Road Tolls: Is It Fair to Put a Price on Freeways? (07/19/2017)
Severin Borenstein in LAist: State Legislature Approves Extension of Landmark Cap-And-Trade Program to Combat Climate Change (07/17/2017)
Lucas Davis in Clean Technica: The Air Conditioning We Use To Cool Us Makes The Planet Hotter (07/17/2017)
Lucas Davis in the New York Times: If You Fix This, You Fix a Big Piece of The Climate Puzzle (07/13/2017)
James Bushnell in the Mercury News: Debate Rages Over California Cap-and-Trade Deal, Concessions to Big Oil (07/11/2017)
James Bushnell in the Mercury News: Jerry Brown, A Global Climate Leader, Fights to Reach Deal At Home (07/09/2017)
James Bushnell in the Santa Cruz Sentinel: Gov. Brown Faces July 21 Deadline on Climate Change Measure (07/08/2017)
Andrew Campbell in the Clean Energy Finance Forum: California’s Steep Path to a High Renewable-Energy Goal (07/03/2017)
Meredith Fowlie and Andrew Campbell on Grist: How America Can Declare Independence From Dirty Energy (07/03/2017)
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis on BBC News: Why Are Californian Solar Firms Paying to Give Away Power (06/29/2017)
Maximilian Auffhammer in the New York Times: 95-Degree Days: How Extreme Heat Could Spread Across the World (06/22/2017)
Catherine Wolfram on Inside Climate News: As Solar Pushes Electricity Prices Negative, 3 Solutions for California’s Power Grid (06/14/2017)
Maximilian Auffhammer in E&E News: Trump Started Using ‘Dominance.’ Now His Cabinet Is (06/13/2017)
Severin Borenstein and Catherine Wolfram in California Magazine: Blue States’ Stand Against Trump on Climate May Bear Fruit (06/13/2017)
Severin Borenstein in the Sacramento Bee: What Price are Californians Paying to Fight Climate Change? (06/08/2017)
Maximilian Auffhammer and Severin Borenstein on CBS News: California Governor Goes to China With Business Leaders To Create Green Partnerships (06/07/2017)
Lucas Davis in Forbes: Another Fracking Time Bomb Lurks Beneath U.S. (06/05/2017)
Severin Borenstein on Capital Public Radio: Could California Go Completely Green Energy By 2050? (05/30/2017)
Lucas Davis in Forbes: LED Lightbulbs Have Shrunk The US Economy – No, Really, They Have (05/14/2017)
Severin Borenstein in the Press Democrat: Sonoma Clean Power, Utilities Face Battle Over Energy Costs (05/14/2017)
Lucas Davis in Bloomberg: The Economy-Changing Power of The LED Bulb (05/09/2017)
Severin Borenstein in the Sacramento Bee: Can State Run on Sun and Wind Alone? California Weighs Aggressive Climate Change Measures (05/04/2017)
James Sallee in the Christian Science Monitor: If You Are in the Market For a New Tesla, Now Might Be a Time to Buy (04/19/2017)
Meredith Fowlie in Bloomberg BNA: Carbon Tax Next Target for California’s Disadvantaged Communities (04/18/2017)
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis in the Atlantic: Will Tesla Do to Cars What Apple Did to Smartphones? (04/18/2017)
Severin Borenstein in the Sacramento Bee: California’s War on Carbon: Is It Winning? (04/14/2017)
Severin Borenstein in the Mercury News: New Gas Tax and Mideast Strife Will Hit Us With a Double Whammy at the Pump (04/07/2017)
Severin Borenstein in Politifact: Could Gas Tax Hike Leave California With ‘Highest Fuel Prices in the Nation?’ (04/06/2017)
Meredith Fowlie and Catherine Wolfram in E&E News: Study Finds DOE Grant Program’s Costs Exceed Benefits (04/06/2017)
Catherine Wolfram in the Washington Post: Trump Wants to Cut Programs That Help Buildings Save Energy. This New Study Says They Work (03/27/2017)
Meredith Fowlie in the Washington Post: The Trump Budget’s Bizarre Move to Cut the Weatherization of Homes (03/20/2017)
Severin Borenstein in E&E News: Can the Golden State go 100% Green? (03/13/2017)
Severin Borenstein in the L.A. Times: In the Battle Over California Climate Policies, Green Projects are Now in the Hot Seat (03/13/2017)
Severin Borenstein in WBEZ News: A Project That Could Double Heating Bills in Chicago Gets a Closer Look from Regulators (03/01/2017)
Severin Borenstein in the Mercury News: Energy Experts: California Gas Prices Could Take a Big Jump (02/27/2017)
Andrew Campbell in the San Diego Union Tribune: Regulators Investigating SDG&E for Potential Lobbying Violations (02/24/2017)
Reed Walker in Berkeley News: Sloan Fellowships Awarded to Five Faculty ‘Rising Stars’ (02/23/2017)
Lucas Davis in the Christian Science Monitor Mexico’s Pollution: How Two Entrepreneurs are Driving Change by Embracing Old Cars (02/17/2017)
Lucas Davis in the New York Times:El Hoy No Circula no es Suficiente Para Combatir la Contaminación en Ciudad de México, Según un Estudio (02/15/2017)
Lucas Davis on BBC News, Phys.org, Pacific Standard, Proceso, and El Financiero: Car Ban Fails to Curb Air Pollution in Mexico City (02/02/2017)
Reed Walker in the Atlantic: Do Regulations Really Kill Jobs? (01/23/2017)
Severin Borenstein on KQED News: Bay Area Refinery Malfunctions Lead to Jump in Gasoline Prices (01/13/2017)
Severin Borenstein in the East Bay Times Commentary: Incandescent Lights Bulbs Need to go in Trash Today (01/06/2017)
Severin Borenstein in the Las Vegas Sun: California’s Energy Needs Could Boost Nevada (12/26/2016)
Lucas Davis on the BBC: A Future for Nuclear Power? (12/21/2016)
Andrew Campbell in the San Diego Union Tribune: Will Trump Slow California’s Climate Change Crusade? (12/16/2016)
Severin Borenstein in the Wall Street Journal: Bill Gates, Others Launch Clean Energy Fund (12/12/2016)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: California’s Climate Fight Could be Painful — Especially on Job and Income Growth (12/11/2016)
Severin Borenstein in The Guardian: Why Electric Cars are Only as Clean as Their Power Supply (12/08/2016)
Lucas Davis in the Christian Science Monitor: EPA aims to preempt Trump with ambitious fuel-economy target (11/30/2016)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times: Consumer group alleges that California refiners are manipulating gasoline prices (11/29/2016)
Severin Borenstein in the AJC: No clear information on the number of “green” jobs created by Obama (11/23/2016)
Severin Borenstein in the KUT News: Why Killing EPA Regulation Won’t Be a Silver Bullet for Energy Industries (11/17/2016)
Severin Borenstein in the Wall Street Journal: What’s the Best Way to Finance New Energy Technologies (11/13/2016)
Lucas Davis in the Conversation | Seattle PI | Salon |
Why aren’t environmentalists supporting a carbon tax in Washington state? (10/30/2016) – (11/01/2016)
Lucas Davis in the Conversation | Huffington Post | Salon | Houston Chronicle |
Addicted to oil: US gasoline consumption is higher than ever (09/25/2016) – (09/27/2016)
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis in ClimateWire: Taking the economic temperature 10 years after A.B. 32 (09/22/2016)
Lucas Davis in AlterNet : Your Air Conditioner and Refridgerator Are Killing the Climate: What Are the Alternatives? (09/22/2016)
Severin Borenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle: Clinton and Trump polar opposites on global warming and energy (09/10/2016)
Lucas Davis in Econ Focus: Nuclear Reactions (09/07/2016)
Andrew Campbell in SNL: Solar Companies Want More Transparency From Regulatory Group (09/02/2016)
Severin Borenstein in Science: Just 90 companies are to blame for most climate change, this ‘carbon accountant’ says (08/25/2016)
Lucas Davis in Business Insider | SFGATE | The Conversation | IFLScience
King Coal Is Dethroned In The US – And That’s Good News For The Environment (08/21/2016) – (08/22/2016)
Severin Borenstein in the Sacramento Bee: Equal time, Trump’s campaign, carbon fee, young farmers (08/21/2016)
Andrew Campbell in the San Diego Union Tribune: SDG&E shareholders and green groups headed for face-off? (08/18/2016)
Severin Borenstein in Fox & Hounds: The Democratic Legislature’s Contribution To California Poverty (08/18/2016)
Severin Borenstein in Wired: If Clinton Wins, America Can Look to California for Cutting Carbon (08/18/2016)
Meredith Fowlie in NBC News: Experts Say California’s Environmental Policies are Bellwether for Economic Growth (08/17/2016)
Severin Borenstein in Argus Media: No easy fix to California gasoline volatility (08/17/2016)
Severin Borenstein in San Francisco Chronicle: The mystery behind California’s high gas prices (08/15/2016)
Lucas Davis in the Guardian: As the mercury soars, fear grows over ‘air-con effect’(08/15/2016)
Severin Borenstein in the Sacramento Bee: Elon Musk’s play, Linda Katehi’s replacement, and Swing States (08/15/2016)
Andrew Campbell in the San Diego Union Tribune: FOCUS: MORE CITIES, COUNTIES CHOOSING GREEN ENERGY SOURCES (08/14/2016)
Lucas Davis in the Hill: Let nuclear power play a role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions (08/11/2016)
Severin Borenstein in Priceonomics: The Mystery of California’s High Gas Prices(08/11/2016)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee: An Rx for cap and trade (08/11/2016)
Kenneth Lee and Catherine Wolfram in the Star: ‘Cheaper’ energy still unaffordable to rural households (08/10/2016)
Lucas Davis in Power Technology: The environmental and economic impacts of closing a nuclear plant (08/08/2016)
Lucas Davis in the Richmond Times: America needs more nuclear energy, not less (08/04/2016)
Lucas Davis in the Financial Times: Fossil fuels have had an aeon’s head start (07/26/2016)
Lucas Davis in Quartz | Scroll.in | U.S. News | FutureStructure | The Conversation | Harvard Public Health | EarthSky | Salon | Independent.ie | The Guardian | Curbed
The global environmental impact of air conditioning is big and will get even bigger (07/24/2016) – (08/15/2016)
Meredith Fowlie in RenewEconomy: The duck is safely afloat in California (07/21/2016)
Severin Borenstein in FutureStructure: California Considers Connecting Electric Vehicles, Home Batteries Up to the Grid (07/18/2016)
Severin Borenstein in Utility Dive: How well do consumers understand rooftop solar economics? (07/14/2016)
Meredith Fowlie in The Sacramento Bee: Why are the world’s cap-and-trade markets struggling to keep prices up? (07/12/2016)
Meredith Fowlie in Trib Live: Carbon market expectations meet reality of low prices, muddled policy (07/09/2016)
Lucas Davis and Catherine Hausman in Centre Daily Times: State should attach value to nuclear power (07/08/2016)
Meredith Fowlie in Bloomberg: Tough to Keep the World From Warming When Carbon Is This Cheap (07/07/2016)
Severin Borenstein in San Francisco Chronicle: Californians are driving more, which is bad for climate change (07/06/2016)
Catherine Wolfram in Greentech Media: Are Global Goals to End Energy Poverty by 2030 Doomed With a Centralized Approach? (06/20/2016)
Severin Borenstein in KQED: KQED Science Gets Exclusive Details On Tesla Gigafactory – Interviews J.B. Straubel (05/06/2016)
Lucas Davis in Gulf Business Subsidies: The double-edged sword of Saudi Arabia (5/4/2016)
Lucas Davis in Inside Energy: Climate Activists Debate Over Tactics (4/29/2016)
Lucas Davis in Pollution Solutions: Will Mexico’s Car Bans Measures Really Fight Pollution? (4/29/2016)
Catherine Wolfram Receives Multimillion Dollar Grant from UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) (04/25/2016)
Catherine Wolfram in Haas News Wire: Wolfram, Gertler to lead energy program to help alleviate poverty (04/25/2016)
Lucas Davis in Omaha Midlands Voices: Let’s not write off nuclear power (4/25/2016)
Severin Borenstein on KOSU: A Rare Look Inside The ‘Gigafactory’ Tesla Hopes Will Revolutionize Energy Use (04/18/2016)
Lucas Davis in Humanosphere: Mexico City bans cars one day a week to combat ongoing pollution problem (04/15/2016)
Lucas Davis and Catherine Hausman in Columbia Tribune: Alternatives can’t keep up with nuclear 04/12/2016)
Lucas Davis in Expansion: Tecnología y coches caros, la respuesta al Hoy No Circula (En Espanol) 04/12/2016)
Lucas Davis in Hydrogen Fuel News: Air pollution crisis in Mexico City lead to massive car ban (04/11/2016)
Lucas Davis and Catherine Hausman in Detroit News: What happens when a nuclear power plant is shut down (04/11/2016)
Maximilian Auffhammer in Environmental Research Web: Sea-level rise puts US power plants in reach of flood (04/06/2016)
Lucas Davis in Milenio: “Hoy no circula” no reducira contaminacion: experto (En Espanol) (04/05/2016)
Lucas Davis in NPR Hidden Brain Podcast: The Unintended Consequences Of Trying To Fix Traffic (04/03/16)
Lucas Davis in The Christian Science Monitor How Mexico City plans to fight air pollution (04/03/2016)
Lucas Davis in Vox Mexico City’s adopting a popular method to fight air pollution. It probably won’t work. (04/02/2016)
Lucas Davis in Excelsior Hoy tampoco circula (En Espanol)(04/02/2016)
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee SMUD phasing in new rate plan based on demand (04/02/2016)
Lucas Davis in Reforma Castigar a la gente (En Espanol)(03/31/2016)
Severin Borenstein in The Guardian New York pension fund could have made billions by divesting from fossil fuels – report (03/04/2016)
Lucas Davis in The Live Mint The fallacy of odds and evens (02/14/2016)
Severin Borenstein in SF Gate Oil firms kept state’s gas supply tight to hike price, group says (02/08/2016)
Severin Borenstein in ABC News Experts Tell Panel Why Gas Is So Expensive in California (02/08/2016)
Lucas Davis in The Quint Lessons From Mexico for Delhi’s Odd-Even Version 2.0 (01/26/2016)
Severin Borenstein appointed to the Advisory Council of the Bay Area Air Quality Management (01/20/2016)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times Smug about your solar roof? Not so fast. (01/20/2016)
Berkeley Haas Ties to India Deepen with Open Innovation Honor for President Catherine Wolfram (01/19/2016)
Patrick Baylis (PhD Candidate, 2016) and Max Auffhammer in Tulsa World News Cold weather bites, but hot days and Mondays get us down (01/09/2016)
Patrick Baylis (PhD Candidate, 2016) and Max Auffhammer in Washington Post This settles it: Cold days are superior to hot days (01/07/2016)
Severin Borenstein in Politifact Arnold Schwarzenegger pumps up California’s clean energy debate (01/05/2016)
Severin Borenstein in MIT Technology Review Battles Over Net Metering Cloud the Future of Rooftop Solar (01/05/2016)
Catherine Wolfram on Marketplace Nevada makes rooftop solar less attractive (01/01/2016)
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis in Orange County Register Sunset unfair solar subsidies (12/31/2015)
Severin Borenstein on KQED Radio After Paris, the World Looks to California as Climate Leader (12/15/2015)
Lucas Davis on Reuters Experience shows Delhi’s “even/odd” car plan won’t cut massive pollution – U.S. expert (12/10/2015)
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis on Vox Clean energy tax credits mostly go to the affluent. Is there a better way? (11/24/2015)
Lucas Davis and EI alumna Catie Hausman on the International Monetary Fund online Magazine Power of the Atom (December issue)
Lucas Davis and Maximilian Auffhammer in The Boston Globe The looming battle for clean data (11/22/2015)
Catherine Wolfram in the International Growth Centre Blog Are we too fixated on rural electrification? (11/12/2015)
Lucas Davis in the San Diego Union-Tribune U.S. Nuclear retirements challenge clean-energy dream (11/9/2015)
Severin Borenstein on ABC 7 News, Bay Area experts say Keystone pipeline decision won’t change things (11/06/2015)
Severin Borenstein receives the “Outstanding Contributions to The Profession Award” from the International Association for Energy Economics (10/25/2015)
Severin Boenstein in Greentech Media The Future of Demand Response Without FERC Order 745 (10/23/2015)
Severin Borenstein in Power Magazine The Solar PV Economics Conundrum (10/23/2015)
Lucas Davis in National Geographic Website Climate Change: How to live with it (10/23/2015)
Severin Borenstein on KCRW’s To the Point Is the Gravy Train over for oil? (10/21/2015)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times Refiners and industry group refuse to meet about California gas prices (10/13/2015)
Andrew Campbell in CNBC Utilities’ Newest Solar Battleground: California (10/05/2015)
Severin Borenstein on KCRW Solar v. Utility Companies (09/29/2015)
Lucas Davis in Design News The Rich are Getting Most of the EV Subsidies (09/29/2015)
Severin Borenstein in the Contra Costa Times California’s low gas prices could stick around into 2017 (09/27/2015)
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis in The Wall Street Journal Study: Wealthy Claim Most Energy Credits and The Wealthiest Households Claim 90% of Tax Credits for Buying Electric Cars (09/24/2015)
Catherine Wolfram in Berkeley Haas Magazine Network Power (09/18/2015)
Severin Borenstein’s appointment as Chair of PMAC mentioned in the Contra Costa Times (09/17/2015)
Severin Borenstein appointed as the Chair of the Petroleum Market Advisory Committee (09/10/2015)
Severin Borenstein on WBUR California’s Bold Plan to Curb Gas Use (09/10/2015)
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis in the Sacramento Bee California Shows Class Bias in Green Subsidies (09/05/2015)
Severin Borenstein in the Wall Street Journal California’s Climate-Change Push Heats Up (09/04/2015)
Severin Borenstein on NPR California Considers Sweeping Proposals To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions (09/03/2015)
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis on Money Talks News Clean Energy Tax Credits Mostly Benefit the Wealthy (09/01/2015)
Severin Borenstein on KGO Radio Study Finds Mostly Wealthy Homeowners Claim Energy Tax Breaks (08/26/2015)
Severin Borenstein in MIT Technology Review Paying for Solar Power (08/17/2015)
Severin Borenstein in KTVU Fox News Political war over global warming heats up for oil industry (08/12/2015)
Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis in the Washington Examiner Green tax credits mostly help the rich (08/11/2015)
Lucas Davis in MotherJones Cool It on the AC Already September/October Issue
Lucas Davis in KPBS Counting Customer Costs For San Onofre Closure: $10.4 Billion (08/03/2015)
Severin Borenstein, OP-ED “Is the future of electricity generation really distributed?“ in The Modesto Bee (08/02/2015) The Orange County Register (08/04/2015)
Catherine Wolfram in E&E News ‘Empathy,’ not incentives or environmentalism, sells solar power in India (07/31/2015)
Lucas Davis in Discovery News Is Air Conditioning Killing the Planet? (07/28/2015)
Severin Borenstein in SF Chronicle Gov. Brown wants to keep oil in the ground. But whose oil? (07/26/2015)
NPR spotlights co-authors Ted Miguel and Catherine Wolfram’s Solar Kenya project Obama Thinks Solar Power Will Boost Kenya; Kenyans Aren’t So Sure (07/23/2015)
Severin Borenstein on Marketplace Oil is cheap, but gas is still expensive in California (07/22/2015)
Severin Borenstein on Capital Public Radio Climate Change: California’s In Front And Not Looking Back (07/20/2015)
Meredith Fowlie in CBS News, U.S. making major gains in energy efficiency (07/16/2015)
Severin Borenstein in KTVU News, California gasoline drought as resources shipped elsewhere (07/16/2015)
Severin Borenstein in KTVU News, Some claim latest gas price spike caused by oil industry (07/13/2015)
Severin Borenstein in The Daily Democrat, PUC approves big changes in state’s electricity rate system (07/03/2015)
“Study Finds Costs of Residential Energy Efficiency Investments are Double the Benefits”, Meredith Fowlie and Catherine Wolfram in Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vox, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Phys.org, Fox, ABC, and CNN (6/24/2015)
Lucas Davis in The Wall Street Journal, High-Tech Solar Projects Fail to Deliver (06/12/2015)
Lucas Davis on UN Dispatch, “Air conditioners can teach us a lot about international development” (Podcast) (06/04/2015)
Severin Borenstein at Navigating the American Carbon World (Video) (05/28/2015)
Andrew Campbell in KQED News, PG&E President to Retire as Utility Faces Mounting Scrutiny (05/27/2015)
Severin Borenstein in Orange County Register, Singing the summer-blend blues (05/27/2015)
Lucas Davis in Asian Scientist, Exponential Aircon Use Could Drive Global Warming (05/26/2015)
Severin Borenstein in Las Vegas Sun, NV Energy fights to keep rooftop solar from cutting into its profit (05/26/2015)
Severin Borenstein on CBS Evening News, What’s driving high gas prices in California? (05/25/2015)
Lucas Davis in USA Today, Ironically, air conditioning could be the thing fueling future global warming (05/20/2015)
Severin Borenstein in SF Weekly, Why The Hell Is This Marin Gas Station Charging Drivers Nearly $8 a Gallon? (05/13/2015)
Catherine Wolfram in The Guardian, Utility companies start hawking appliances (05/13/2015)
Severin Borenstein in KTVU News, Gas prices rose 75 cents in the last month (05/12/2015)
Severin Borenstein in KTVU News, Advocates demand transparency from refineries as gas prices spike (05/05/2015)
Severin Borenstein in KCRW, Tesla’s Battery: Luxury Item of Energy Storage Game Changer? (05/04/2015)
Professor Fowlie Appointed Endowed Chair (05/01/2015)
Lucas Davis in The Verge, More people are going to buy air conditioners — and they may need a ton of energy (04/27/2015)
Lucas Davis in Newswise, The Cost of Staying Cool When Incomes Heat Up
(04/27/2015)
Lucas Davis in The Washington Post, Cool homes, hot planet: How air conditioning explains the world (04/27/2015)
Severin Borenstein in KTVU News, The low down on why San Francisco gas prices aren’t so low (04/04/2015)
Severin Borenstein in The Press Enterprise, GASOLINE: Price rise makes skeptics of consumers (03/06/2015)
Severin Borenstein in KTVU News, California drivers cope with enormous spike in gas prices (03/02/2015)
Severin Borenstein on KQED, Climbing Gas Prices (02/28/2015)
Severin Borenstein in The Seattle Times, State Senate doing its oily best to ignore us on transportation (02/27/15)
Severin Borenstein in SF Gate, Democrat proposes carbon cash: $1,000 for every American (02/26/15)
Severin Borenstein in The Orange County Register, Playing cap-and-trade hide-and-seek (02/11/15)
Lucas Davis in Scientific American, Low Gas Prices Smooth Path for Carbon Add-On in California (01/06/2015)
Severin Borenstein in EEnews.com, Texas, Calif. throw their weight around on power plant regulations (01/05/2015
Severin Borenstein in The Sacramento Bee, Gas prices rise for first time in weeks; California cap-and-trade effect cited (01/02/2015)
Severin Borenstein in The Huffington Post, Marketing California’s “Climate Credit for Cars” to Everyone (12/30/2014)
Severin Borenstein in The Fresno Bee, Coming in 2015: A gas price increase that consumers may or may not notice (12/20/2014)
Lucas Davis in CBS Miami, EnergyGuide Labels Accuracy In Question (12/19/14)
Severin Borenstein on KTVUnews.com, Low gas prices help state economy (12/17/2014)
California names Severin Borenstein as one of 5 members of Petroleum Market Advisory Committee (12/16/2014)
Severin Borenstein Op-Ed, “Learning to Love Paying 10 more Cents at the Pump”, in the LA Times (12/14/2014)
Severin Borenstein on Gas Prices Drop to 4-Year Low on KQED Forum (12/05/2014)
Severin Borenstein on Gas Prices Morning Addition – KQED.org (12/09/2014)
Severin Borenstein on Cap-and-Trade “Double Whammy for State Fuel Suppliers” in Breaking Energy (12/05/2014)
EI Faculty comment on: “Top economists analyze Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan” in Environmental Research Web (11/172014)
EI Faculty comment on: “Can It Work? Economists Grade a Key Part of Obama’s Climate Policy” in NBC News (11/13/2014)
Lucas Davis on Better Yellow Labels, Consumer Talk with Michael Finney, KGO-Radio (11/08/2014)
Severin Borenstein in, “Bernie Sanders Shatters The Big Keystone XL Lie: Pipeline Will Cause US Gas Prices To Go Up” http://www.politicususa.com (11/07/2014)
EI@Haas Working Paper, “Studies Cast Doubt on Value of Daylight- Saving Time”, WSJ (10/31/2014)
Severin Borenstein on Marketplace, “SolarCity Courts Customers by Selling Bonds” (10/20/2014)
Lucas Davis in The Wall Street Journal, “How to Cut Residential Energy Use” (9/28/2014)
Lucas Davis on Marketplace, “The Price of AC Units Has Cooled Down” (9/26/2014)
Severin Borenstein in Environment 360, “Oil Companies Quietly Prepare For a Future of Carbon Pricing” (9/23/2014)
Severin Borenstein in Bloomberg Businessweek, “Shell’s Jekyll and Hyde Approach to Climate Change” (9/08/2014)
Catherine Wolfram in The New York Times, “Accounting for the Expanding Carbon Shadow from Coal-Burning Plants” (8/28/2014)
Meredith Fowlie in Climate Central “Coal Terminal Decision Highlights Exports’ GHGs” (8/21/2014)
Lucas Davis in the Milken Review, “The Cost of Global Fuel Subsidies” (7/29/2014)
Severin Borenstein in BBC News “Scottish independence: Life beyond oil in Texas and California” (7/10/2014)
Press Release: Final Report on California Cap-and-Trade by Market Simulation Group (7/7/2014)
Severin Borenstein in the Los Angeles Times “Cable TV boxes become 2nd biggest energy users in many homes” (6/17/2014)
EI@Haas Working paper, “The Economic Cost of Global Fuel Subsidies” by Lucas Davis gets attention in WSJ blog, Huffington Post, Chicago Policy Review, Economist, and The Atlantic
Severin Borenstein on Solar Growth on Marketplace “Solar Grows, With Government Help” (4/18/2014)
Severin Borenstein on Energy Markets and Utilities on KPCC Southern California Public Radio “PG&E charged with 12 criminal counts for fatal 2010 San Bruno blast” (4/2/2014)
Maximilian Auffhammer on Pollution in China on the BBC News (3/4/2014)
Catherine Wolfram on Energy and Water in The Los Angeles Times “Water conservation’s other benefit: It’s a power saver” (3/3/2014)
Severin Borenstein on Natural Gas Prices on Marketplace “Natural gas bills are up and not just because of cold” (2/25/2014)
Severin Borenstein on Proposed a Carbon Tax on Gas and Other Fuels on KQED Forum “Proposed Gas Tax Would Alter Climate Law” (2/24/2014)
Catherine Wolfram on Climate Change on KALW Local Public Radio “Today on Your Call: Can we make the energy transition required by climate change?” (12/18/2013)
Veronica Irastorza on Efficiency Programs in Mexico in Public Utilities Fortnightly “Energy Efficiency Unknowns” (12/1/2013)
Catherine Wolfram on Energy Efficiency in NPR’s Weekend Edition “Tech Leaders, Economists Split Over Clean Energy’s Prospects” (11/26/2013)
Catherine Wolfram on World Carbon Emissions in NPR’s Morning Edition “What’s In It For U.S. To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions?” (11/26/2013)
Catherine Wolfram on Shifting Solar Costs in The Huffington Post “Utility, solar company battle over rooftop panels” (11/18/2013)
Severin Borenstein on Smart Meters in NPR’s All Things Considered “Some Consumers Push Back Against ‘Smart’ Utility Meters” (8/13/2013)
Catherine Wolfram with The E2e Project on “Saving energy is great. But how much is actually possible?” in the Washington Post (6/18/2013)
Catherine Wolfram on MPG Want to Boost Fuel Economy? Stop Thinking About Miles Per Gallon in the Washington Post (6/6/2013)
Severn Borenstein Speaks at Travers Conference on Ethics and Accountability Regarding “California’s Energy/Climate Policy: Exporting Green Innovation”
Lucas Davis Testifies on Need for Rigorous Energy Efficiency Evaluation at “California State Assembly Hearing on Energy Efficiency” (3/6/2013)
Elizabeth Bailey, Christopher Knittel and Catherine Wolfram on Energy Efficiency in “Energy efficiency needs more research” in USA Today (2/28/2013)
Catherine Wolfram Speaks on Energy Efficiency Evaluation at Senator Forum on California Senate Bill 39 (1/23/2013)
Catherine Wolfram on Energy Efficiency in “Viewpoints: What can California learn from clothier about energy efficiency?” in the Sacramento Bee (1/16/2013)
Energy Institute Research Alumnus, Carla Peterman, Appointed as Newest Commissioner to the California Public Utilities Commission http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17857 (12/21/2012)
Meredith Fowlie, Matthew Kahn, and Frank Wolak on AB-32 in “California Law Tests Company Responses to Carbon Costs” in The New York Times (12/24/2012)
Elizabeth M. Bailey and Frank Wolak on “Cap and trade should look to broader goals” in the Sacramento Bee (11/02/2012)
Severin Borenstein and Ryan Kellogg on “U.S. Oil Boom Falls Short of Pump” in the Wall Street Journal (10/15/2012)
Severin Borenstein on Gas Price Spikes on “In Depth: Bay Area Energy Expert Advocates for Investments in Science and Tech” on KCBS (10/15/2012)
Severin Borenstein on Gas Price Spikes on “Pain at the Pump in California” KQED (10/8/2012)
Elizabeth M. Bailey and Catherine Wolfram on New Business Models in “A Whole Different Kind of Innovation” in the Wall Street Journal (6/18/2012)
Catherine Wolfram on Energy Efficiency in “Why We Ignore Low-Tech Fixes for the Climate” in The Washington Post (6/2/2012)
Catherine Wolfram on Low-Tech Cleantech in “Fighting Climate Change with Low-Tech Tools” in Bloomberg View (5/20/2012)
Severin Borenstein on the Price of Gas in “Straight Talk on the Price of Gas.” in NPR’s On Point (4/9/2012)
Severin Borenstein on High Gas Prices in “The U.S. Can’t Control the World Oil Market,” in USNews.com (3/2/2012)
Severin Borenstein on Renewable Energy in “Making the Wrong Case for Renewable Energy,” Bloomberg Business Class (2/13/2012)
Catherine Wolfram on “Rising Middle Class Fuels Global Energy Surge” in Bloomberg Business Class (1/17/2012)
Max Auffhammer on Climate Change in California in “Governor Jerry Brown Kicks Off California Climate Change Conference with Attack on ‘Deniers‘” in MercuryNews.com (12/15/2011)
Lucas Davis on Nuclear Power Post-Fukushima in “Nuclear Concerns Temporary, Berkeley Prof Says” in The Chicago Maroon (11/18/2011)
Severin Borenstein on Residential Solar Technology in “State Gets Mixed Reviews on Solar Power” in The Los Angeles Times (11/9/2011)