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Pickens Drops Wind Power from the Pickens Plan

Chinese Government Having Trouble Getting Fuel Prices Right

Iran Cuts Fuel Subsidies and Other Energy and Economics Links

Oil Flows in Ghana, is the Resource Curse Soon to Follow?

Did They Really Say That? Gasoline Market Stress Coming to Eastern Washington, So Officials Offer Advice

Chinese Wind Power Company Seems to Understand American Political Capitalism

Texas Transmission Route to Avoid Crossing Scenic Canyon

Industry Advocates: Jobs Will Be Lost if Congress Doesn't Act

"Economizing on Virtue" Research Bleg

Hotel Rate Price Gouging During Snowstorm

Epa Acts on a Natural Gas Drilling Groundwater Case

Is It Time to Become Concerned About the Possible Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Prices?

Speed Blogging

What Scientific Information or Data Does the Department of Interior Intend to Rely Upon in Fracking Policy Actions?

Best "Investigation/Price Gouging/Showdown/Violence" Romance Movie

Designing Electricity Auctions

Polish Gas Choices: Lng Imports, Shale Gas Resource Development, And/or Trusting Gazprom

The Rule of Capture in Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Law

Oil Production in Pennsylvania

Unfair Prices for Holiday Air Travel in India? Any Lasting Effects?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ethanol Comments Supply Evidence That Al Gore Will Never Again Run for Office

U.S. Companies Getting into the Lng Export Business

Confusopoly (With a Note on Retail Gasoline Market Strategies)

Glamour and Policy - Virginia Postrel in the Wsj

Philadelphia Eagles Declare "Energy Independence," Whatever That Means

The Ercot Market in Texas Readies for Change in Market Design

Shale Gas Doc Haynesville to Air November 23 on Cnbc

Reactions to the 60 Minutes Program "Shaleionaires"

More Economists Thinking About Peak Oil

University Positions Available in Smart Grid, Power Systems, and More

The Problem with "Peak Oil" from an Economist's Point of View

Negative Power Prices in Ercot West: 2009 and 2010 Through September

Top 10 Longest Periods with Consecutive Negative Power Prices, Ercot West

Who Should Be Able to Bid for Oil and Gas Leases on Federal Land?

Speaking of Smoke: Oregon's Only Coal Power Plant May Convert to Biomass, but Plan Has Many Unknowns

Smoke Filled Rooms, Solar Power, and the Long Shadow of Grid Parity

Democratic Party Promoted Libertarian Candidates

Sunny Texas and Solar Power

Incentives and Fake Success in Medical Research and Public Policy

White House Advisors: Federal Loans for Renewable Power Projects Going to the Wrong Projects

A Reporter with an In-home Energy Monitor and a Blog

National Renewable Power Standards? Still Not Practical

Industry, Environmental Group Working on Shale Gas Drilling Rules

Shale Gas in Pennsylvania, Illustrated & Explained

How to Avoid Violating Florida's Price Gouging Law

A "Solar Bill of Rights"???

The End of Direct Electric Utility Competition in Lubbock

Could Be Special Pleading on Higher Education

Property Owners Seek Wind Turbines but Fight Transmission Lines

Solar Power Not Yet Cheaper Than Nuclear

Capitalism and Whatever Works

Do We Need "Post-partisan Power"?

When Emergencies Force Taboo Tradeoffs

How Do Plug-in Vehicles Connect with Cafe Regulation?

Concentrated Benefits and Dispersed Costs

Why is Human Well-being Increasing As Ecosystem Services Degrade?

Natural Gas, Helium, Offshore Wind Power, and Cap-And-Trade Design Issues

Roast Potatoes, Elinor Ostrom, Whole Foods Competitors

The Sound and Fury of the Shale Gas Fracking Debate

The Differences Between Renewable Energy and Renewable Power in North Carolina

Cole on Coase and Cattle

Getting Hooked on Hayek

Review of Kiesling and Kleit (eds.) Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story

Uncapping Prices in Secondary Ticket Markets

Tinderbox

All the Life-extending Benefits of Caloric Restriction, Without Actually, You Know, Restricting Calories?

Happy Birthday to James M. Buchanan

"Price Gouging in the Auction House"

The Continuing Debate over Wind Power and Net Emissions

Building a "Passive House"

What Market Design Can Do for You

Is Texas Crez a Model for Getting Transmission Lines Built Elsewhere in the Country?

Waste Heat into Electric Power?

China's Central Government-based Energy Conservation Policies

Tom Friedman Wants Us to Get Big Things Done

Nhl's Experiments in Hockey

Cargo Bikes in Copenhagen

Estimating Job Losses Due to the Deepwater Drilling Moratorium - Was the Good News Simply Assumed?

Queue Jumping Privileges for Cng-fueled Taxis in Dallas

Supremo Vs. Invisible Hand: Battle over New Zealand Earthquake Recovery Approach

On-line Clothing Reseller Cost Breakdown

Temporary Policies Have Temporary Effects - And Sometimes That is Good News

Will Faking a Consumer Cartel Help Make Power Markets More Efficient?

Price Gouging and Praise for Econ 101

OPEC Turns 50 Years Old

Price Gouging, Ethics, Markets, and the Corrupting Influence of Econ 101

Taxpayers, Ratepayers, City Government, Municipal Utilities

The Fictional (And Extremely Unhealthy!) Big Rock Candy Mountain

Booker Prize Shortlist Announced

Lubbock's Municipal Utility Fights City Hall

The Mongoliad

Facebook Etiquette Question

Nodal Pricing Coming to Texas Wholesale Power Market

BP's "Deepwater Horizon: Accident Investigation Report"

New York Assembly Candidate Proposes to *really* Ban Zone Pricing This Time

Bedbugs, Public Policy, and Relative Risk Assessment

When to Worry About the Jevons Paradox

The 128th Anniversary of the Beginning of the Electric Power Industry

The Number of Correct Responses from Phd's in Economics, Consequently, Was Somewhat Less Than the Expected Number if the Respondents Had Been Chickens Pecking Randomly

The City Council Puts Lubbock's New Municipal Electric Monopoly to Use

The Economist: Making Lighting More Efficient Could Increase Energy Use

Assorted Links

Wsj Review of The Enlightened Economy

Klein's Review of The Wealth of Networks

Wsj Profile of Pete Boettke and Modern Austrian Economics

Tres Amigas Project Overview

Economic Analysis of Localvore Choices

Rainy Days, but Not Sundays, Will Get Them Down

The History of Price Regulation is a Tale of Woe

Bootleggers and Baptists Alert: Riaa and Radio Broadcasters

Harder to Hand out Subsidies Than You Think

What I've Been Reading ... and Related Videos!

Dynamic Pricing of Street Parking in San Francisco

A Post Which Isn't About the Question Marks Swirling Around High Speed Rail

More on Unconscionability and Price Gouging Law

Unconscionability and Price Gouging Law

Monterey Institute Looking for Energy/trade Economist

Defending the 'three Tier' Alcohol Distribution System

The Economist: (Sing with Me!)"Dave and Nick/are Punk Rockers"

An Economic Analysis of Comparative Fuel Economy?

Auctioning Power Transmission Capacity Contracts of Varying Duration

Othman on Pickens, Horseflesh, and Hypocrisy

A Personal Note on Kp

Tres Amigas in the News

Chevy Volt and the Definition of Price Gouging

Complexity Essay Question from Megan Mcardle

Cocoa Market Manipulation? The Evidence Suggests...

Yes, Kp is Alive...

Coasian Bargaining on Wind Turbine Noise

Too Much Dam Water?

Will Pace Financing Damage the Mortgage Market?

On Hoover Dam

A Very Good Sentence

Russ Roberts on Hayek in the Wall Street Journal

What the Maryland Psc's Rejection of Bg&e's Smart Grid Proposal Reveals About Regulation

David Warsh on Complexity and Economics

More Rule/market Design Recommendations for International Football-soccer

Electric Vehicle Recharging: Is the Energy Too Cheap to Meter?

Soccer Rules As a Market Design Problem

Rejoice: Another World Cup, Another Ball Controversy

How Integrated Are European Electricity Markets?

When Should a Solar Power Installer Be Treated Like a Regulated Public Utility?

New Work on Tacit Knowledge

Overfishing and the Impending Collapse of Fisheries

Long Distance Electric Power Transmission in 1889

Is a Post-disaster Building Permit Fee Increase an Example of Price Gouging?

The Ajax Soccer Talent Factory

When Will Manipulation of Public Prediction Markets Begin to Work?

Government, Slavery, Jim Crow, The New York Times

Cogeneration Vs. Monopoly Electric Utility Service, Circa 1909

Orlando Wants to Discourage High Gas Prices Near the Airport

Oil Spills, Movie Stars, Robot Unicorns and Regulation

Texas Wind Power: It Isn't About the Rps

Per Capita Energy Consumption Has Declined in the United States

Electricity Generation, New Source Review, and Waste

"The Central Station and the Isolated Plant"

The Smart Grid and the Advance of Civilization

More on Efficient Trade Between Power Markets

Derivatives Markets, Storage and Price Volatility

When Stories Compete with Statistics for Attention, Stories Win

Competition for Donated Used Clothes

Onions and Motion Picture Box Office Receipts

Dynamic Pricing for Foodies ... and for Electricity?

The Right Market Design for Trade Between Power Markets

Automatic Trading and Market (in)Stability

Tennessee Ag Settles Price Gouging Claim Against Knoxville Gasoline Retailer

FCC and Internet Regulation: "Lobbyists on Both Sides Are Already Shopping for New Vacation Houses in Aspen"

Anecdotal Evidence on Employment Effects from Stimulus Spending

Group Theory, Visualization, and Mattress Longevity

White House Declares Emergency in Massachusetts Water Main Break. In Related News, Water Main Break is Already Repaired.

Google's Investment in Wind Generation

Is Price Gouging on Bottled Water Against the Law in Massachusetts?

The Struggle to Protect Property Claims in Virtual Worlds

On the Development of Mineral Resources in Latin America

Samuel Insull's Argument for State Regulation of Monopoly Electric Utilities

Where Water Management Meets Electricity Consumption, and Other Notes from New Orleans

Apple and Adobe: It Depends on What Your Definition of "Open" is

Integrating Variable Energy Resources to the Electric Power Grid (cont.)

Pigou As Public Choice Economist, Not a Pigouvian

Peak Oil and the Mainstream Economist

More Smart Grid Insight

Knowing What We Don't Know

Two Stories About Integrated Utility Smart Grid Programs

Making the Most of Spain's Feed-in Tariff for Solar Power

Anticipa-a-tion ... and More Music Recs

Will the Cftc Allow the Newly Approved Box Office Futures Exchange to Actually Offer Box Office Futures Contracts?

CFTC Approves Box Office Futures Market

Libertarian Paternalism Series at Cato Unbound

Technology + Dynamic Pricing Conserves Water Too (duh)

New Music Recommendation: The National-high Violet

Tim Harford Asks About Inclining Block Rates ...

Levitt and Becker on Health Care

Grid-connected Energy Storage Taking off

The Ethanol Industry Rises to Defend Itself

Buchanan & Wagner's "Democracy in Deficit" and Its Current Applications

Prediction Markets for Movie Box Office: Manipulation! Insider Trading! Efficiency! and Twitter!

Smart Meter Vs. Standard Meter (with Photos!)

South Africa Hotel Price Gouging Study

I Cringe when I See Hayek's Knowledge Problem Wielded As a Rhetorical Club

"Hybrid Vehicles Only"

"Energy Storage in the New York Electricity Markets"

Texas Puc Has Plan to Test Smart Meters

Elinor Ostrom Interview

The Vast Electrical Sponge Provided by V2g Technology

Crude Oil Prices in 2008: Was the Spike a Bubble?

God and Mammon Both Teach Fairness

High Bills Lead Couple to File Smart Meter Lawsuit Against Oncor

Georgia Bill Would Add Useful Flexibility to Price Gouging Law

Incentives for Efficient Use of Storage in Electric Power Systems

Power Exchange Regimes in Europe

Ohio Cities to End Natural Gas Purchasing Initiative

More on Smart Meter Texas

Allocating Property Rights to Wind and Solar Resources

Responding to Consumer Concerns over Smart Meters

Pandora Lived

Tres Amigas Gets Half a Loaf from Ferc, Tips on Gaining Other Half

I Nominate "Computational Economic Systems Design"

Application Deadline Approaching for May Irle Seminar

Application Deadline Approaching for Ihs Summer Seminars

Aei Electricity Event on Thursday This Week

Back in the Saddle; Where's Our Banner?

Fish Leg Counts: What the Web Knows and Doesn't Know

Should We Pick Up the Pace?

More About the Haynesville Documentary

Are You a "Hydrocarbon Denier"?

Nerc, Ferc, and Frcc Agree on 2008 Florida Blackout

Shifting Policy Extinguishes Short-lived Spanish Solar Boom, Fortunately

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: European Electric Grid Expansion Version

Pat Wood Joins the Ranks of Energy Bloggers

Market Design for Liberty!

Frankel Surveys the Natural Resource Curse Literature

Wind Power and Natural Gas-fired Power and Power Market Design

Rapier on Bloom Energy: Hype is a Two-edged Sword

Girl Scout Cookie Price Gouging?

Back from the Birkie

Health Care: End Third-party Payer, or Stop Wasting My Time and Money

Bloom off the Rose

Modern Renditions of Pride & Prejudice, Humor Edition

Court Dismisses Price Fixing and Price Gouging Claims Filed Against Four Martha's Vineyard Gasoline Retailers

Energy Storage for Electric Power Systems

Jamie Oliver, Children and Food, and Field Experiments

Bloom Energy Makes the News

Fracking and Water Quality

Inside the Ercot Control Center

Tickets into the Olympics

Information Costs and Snowfall Data

Vehicle-to-grid Income and Analysis

Local Politician Threatens to File Price Gouging Claims Against Gasoline Retailers Opposing Tax

Many Views on the Haynesville Shale Resource

Simon V. Ehrlich, Again

Wind Power and Electric Power Storage

Algal Oil for $2/gallon? Not Likely Any Time Soon.

Evs Need to Avoid Charging During Peak Hours? Nonsense!

Buy Local

How to Fake Sincerity in Reporting Quarterly Results

Weekend Cooking

Poet, Ethanol, Independence and the Flag

Happy 201st for Charles Darwin (and Abe Lincoln)

Are Carbon Credit Markets Inherently Prone to Fraud and Manipulation?

Private Management of the Commons: Parking Spots and Chicago Snow

Pg&e Spending Big to Protect Its Monopoly Against Municipal Aggregation

By the Way You Look Fantastic in Your Car of Audi Plastic

Google Energy Llc Files at Ferc

Georgia Electric Consumers Want Competition to Help Protect Against Higher Prices, Just Like They Have for Natural Gas

Tres Amigas Wants to Take Cheap Electric Power Away from Hard-Working Texas Families

A Disgusting Display of Bureaucratic Force from the Chicago Department of Public Health

Matt Welch on Monopoly: Joseph Schumpeter, Call Your Office!

A Little Innovation with Great Effect: the New Heinz Ketchup Packet!

Amazon Ebook Controvery Persists: Update

The Networked Grid: 100 Movers and Shakers

Why is Idaho Power Paying Its Customers?

Jaguar Proposes a Luxury Turbine Hybrid Vehicle

The Amazon-macmillan Ebook Kerfuffle: an Ode to Price Discrimination

Bump: Adam Smith and the "Man of System"

On the Road Again...

Shale Gas Supplies and the Alaska Gas Pipeline Question

Marc Gunther on GE and DC, and How to Reduce the Influence of Special Interests

The Revised History of Electric Competition in Lubbock

Publishers and Ebooks: Innovation, Drm, and Resale Price Maintenance

Adler on the Housemartins: Sunday Song Lyric

Boudreaux on Populism and Corporatist Capitalism

How Valuable Will a Monopoly Be to Lubbock Power & Light?

Government Sponsored Applied Corporate Research

Econstories: Keynes-Hayek Rap

Integrating Variable Energy Resources to the Electric Power Grid

Price Gouging in Haiti

Energy Storage on the Grid: Transmission Equipment or Market Participant? (Again)

A Private Right of Action on Price Gouging

Hey Cooks! Use Bing for Recipe Searches

Tim Harford on Hahn-passell and Regulation 2.0

Citizens United, Competing Free Speech, and "Associations of Citizens"

The Founders Were Deeply Skeptical of Corporations

Pre-holiday Price Gouging: The View from Six Weeks Later

Thanks Pete!

Congratulations to Tom Casten!

Some Economics of Cable Content Bundling

Fish Populations Surge in Oregon

The New Pickens Plan Problem

California's Solar Hot Water Initiative

Quick Hits

The Costs of Policy Uncertainty: Venezuela Edition

Taking out a Mortgage to Buy Led Lights for Your Home

Stretching the Meaning of "Price Gouging" in Venezuela and Alaska

R I Making Smart Grid Sense?

Smart Meter Benefits for Low-income Consumers

Whitman and Worstall: Apply "New Paternalism" Logic to Policymakers Too

Ignore the Smiling Photo - Arnold Kling is Bitter

Tesla!!!!!!!

Why Hasn't the Web Revolutionized Scholarly Publication?

How to Cook Perfect Roast Potatoes

The Joys of Target

Planet Money: Do Smart Meters Curb Energy Use?

Utilities Should Help Hackers Hack Smart Meters

Texas and the Tres Amigas Interconnection

Is Real-time Pricing Worth the Trouble for Residential Customers?

Left-right Political Model "Obscures More Than It Reveals"

Home Energy Innovation from Direct Energy

More on Vitamin D's Health Benefits

Snow and Led Traffic Lights

Ten Words You Need to Stop Misspelling

Wolfers on Cheap Economists and Comparative Advantage

Henderson on Wsj on Mexico and Drug Violence

Oregon Scientific's Elegant In-home Energy Monitor

Snarky Line of the Day Award ...

Another Early Music Fan