Energy
MA Bioenergy Initiative Requires Restructuring to Ensure Energy Market Neutrality and Cost Efficiency.
Critique of the state's plans to subsidize ethanol, mandate biodiesel, and mostly ignore end-use efficiency. (Feb. 2008).
Subsidies to Nuclear and Biofuels Among the Most Costly Carbon Abatement Strategies.
Provides subsidy cost per mt CO2eq abated via goverment supports to biofuels (including cellulosic) and nuclear energy. Integrating data from McKinsey & Co. on abatement options, demonstrates subsidies comprise the least efficient options for addressing climate change. Prepared for Greenpeace Solutions. (June 2008).
Federal Energy Subsidies: Not All Technologies Are Created Equal
by Marshall Goldberg, for the Renewable Energy Policy Project. July 2000 Research Report No.
Energy Subsidies and the Environment
in Subsidies and Environment: Exploring the Linkages, Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1996, pp. 201-218.
Federal Energy Subsidies: Energy, Environmental, and Fiscal Impacts
Published by the Alliance to Save Energy, 1993. Cover. Main report (PDF). Technical appendix.
Reforming Subsidies in the US Energy Sector: Large Challenges Lay Ahead
Presentation to the OECD Workshop on Subsidy Reform and Sustainable Development, Helsinki, Finland. (June 2006).
Obstacles to Subsidy Reform in the Energy Sector
Presentation (in Powerpoint) at the 2nd Annual OECD Technical Expert Meeting on Environmentally Harmful Subsidies, Paris, 3-4 November 2003. Provides and overview of the political dynamics of subsidies and the structural challenges to reforming them.
Energy Subsidies: Lessons Learned in Assessing their Impact and Designing Policy Reforms
Anja Von Moltke, Colin McKee, and Trevor Morgan. United Nations Environment Programme, 2004. (Earth Track peer review, not authorship).