Renewable portfolio standards (RPS) are the most popular U.S. state-level policies for promoting deployment of renewable electricity (RES-E). While several econometric studies have estimated the effect of RPS on in-state RES-E deployment, results are contradictory. We reconcile these studies and...

This paper investigates the asymmetric impacts of climate policy uncertainty (CPU) on the US renewable energy consumption (REC) adopting monthly data covering the sample period 2000M1-2019M2. The nonlinear auto-regressive distributed lag (NARDL) model is employed. Our findings show that total...

In this paper we analyze the relative importance and mutual behavior of two competing base-load electricity generation options that each are capable of contributing significantly to the abatement of global CO2 emissions: nuclear energy and coal-based power production complemented with CO2...