While the sharing economy has mostly focused on tangible assets or facilitating labor transactions, the potential to incorporate sharing—in the form of changes to behavior that create societal good—requires a different construct for electricity: one focused on an intangible asset,...

All forms of renewable energy are at an inflection point. Falling costs, changing technology, and new environmental and climate regulations have all moved to exponentially increase the growth of renewable energy. How legal terms, such as "qualifying facility" under PURPA are interpreted and...

While the Army Corps of Engineers could use adaptive management to better utilize water resources under its control, it currently does not. After discussing the history of the water rights issue in the ACF basin, the paper details current Corps authority and what additional changes could be made...

There aren't many ways for the average citizen to become involved in energy regulation. Citizens have little input into any utility docket process; moreover, because the process is so difficult for the average citizen to understand, there is little oversight provided by the public in regular,...

As climate change sharpens the focus on our electricity systems, there is widespread agreement that the institutions that govern our electric grid must change to realize a clean energy future in the timescale necessary. Scholars are actively debating how grid governance needs to change, but in...

The scientific consensus is clear. The earth’s climate is changing, and mankind must take collective bold action. While the pace of decarbonization is being debated as a political question, it is already impacting business decisions and needs to also be addressed by regulators. From a...

This Response - to Michael Pappas and Victor Flatt's Climate Changes Property: Disasters, Decommodification, and Retreat - summarizes how Profs. Pappas and Flatt argue for a new context within which to change the commodification of property. The argued-for changes provide a path towards...

This paper compares recent solar valuation approaches in nine states that have explicitly engaged in actions to determine compensation for distributed energy resources, including distributed solar. The selected states represent a variety of political environments, regulatory structures, climate...