Electricity

Still your grandfather’s boiler

Through a study of New Source Review, we empirically investigate how the differential treatment of coal boilers shaped the utilization, retirement and emissions of US coal generators.

Markets with power

We estimate counterfactual prices for the Australian National Electricity Market under the assumption of perfect competition and investigate to what extent market power contributed to elevated prices between 2015 and 2019.

Markets with power

We estimate counterfactual prices for the Australian National Electricity Market under the assumption of perfect competition and investigate to what extent market power contributed to elevated prices between 2015 and 2019.

Essays on Electricity Economics

My dissertation leverages electricity data for an economic investigation of three disparate topics: the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; the implications of government ownership on the exercise of market power in the Australian National Electricity Market; and, the unintended consequences of US Clean Air Act regulation on coal boilers.