Cool new work on heat pumps! Clean, efficient, price responsive, subsidies pencil out - what's not to like? Also one of the study's authors (Andrew) was kind enough to come join a panel I hosted back in March. Was great for the students to hear what the team at Centre for Net Zero are working on.

RMrmetcalfe.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 12:56pm

Very excited to release this paper today. By using a staggered roll-out of heat pumps in the UK, we find that: 1. Heat pumps reduce households’ total energy use by a whopping 40%, and carbon emissions by 36%, evidencing the real-world impact of their superior efficiency over gas boilers.

Thanks Paul :)

Delighted to see this paper coming out in JAERE. Lots of great comments during the review process too. One key takeaway: Local planning/permitting for wind and solar projects has systematic inefficiencies that lead to large economic costs and slow the deployment of renewable energy. #energysky

Jjaereaere.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 2:06pm

🌤️ Just accepted 🌬️ in @jaereaere.bsky.social: "The Economic Costs of NIMBYism: Evidence from Renewable Energy Projects" by Stephen Jarvis (@stephenjarvis.bsky.social) Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Same. Looks like a really cool paper

It’s done. This is the moment Britains last remaining coal power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain. HT National Grid ESO

Nice job!

Amazing!

Ahh I see. Then yes, ground-mounted is the most common one I've seen on that dimension. I appreciate in many contexts all this usually gets shorthanded with "utility-scale" generally implying "utility-scale ground-mounted" and "rooftop" generally implying "residential rooftop".

I guess there's two dimensions: 1) where it's installed (i.e. ground-mounted, rooftop) and 2) scale (i.e. residential, community, commercial, utility-scale). So for a large project in a field I'd say utility-scale ground-mounted. If it's on the top of a Walmart then commercial rooftop. And so on.