Proposes that through FERC’s authority over electricity rates, power contracts, and utility planning, the agency can influence the cost-effectiveness of new generation and new infrastructure by putting a price on emissions.
Surveyed practices across independent system operators in response to FERC’s Order 1000.
Imposed on all public utility electric transmission providers the need to develop regional transmission plans. Those plans must consider non-transmission options as well as transmission options.
An analysis of recent efforts to use the SCC as a direct value for taxes and subsidies applied to economic activity with a negative or positive carbon impact.
Resources for the Future coordinate economists and scientists to improve the science behind estimates of the SCC. They have published a range of briefs, reports, and testimony on improving utilization of the SCC.
A 2015 report, Expert Consensus on the Economics of Climate Change; A 2014 report, Omitted Damages; and 2019 report, A Lower Bound.
Compiles a suite of resources and literature on the evolving effort to properly value the cost of carbon pollution, and highlights efforts and opportunities at the state and federal level to incorporate those costs into policy.
A 2016 Assessment of Approach to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon, and a 2017 follow-up, Valuing Climate Damages: Updating Estimation of the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide.
Recommended certain modifications to the current regulatory framework that could improve the efficiency of licensing reviews.
Reviewing the state of advanced small modular nuclear technology and citing to several staff reports assessing how siting criteria may change with the development of small, advanced nuclear technology.