by Danny Cullenward | Dec 8, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Michael Wara and Danny Cullenward submitted a comment to the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) on the Straw Proposal concerning regional greenhouse gas accounting and market design mechanisms. We write today to express our strong...
by Danny Cullenward | Nov 21, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Wara and Cullenward submitted a comment to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on transparency, policy specificity, and energy forecasting uncertainty in ARB’s draft 2030 Scoping Plan analysis. Our comments today focus on two elements...
by Danny Cullenward | Nov 17, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) California voters approved Proposition 26 in 2010, amending the state constitution to require a legislative supermajority to raise taxes on any citizen. Proposition 26 strengthened the requirements of Proposition 13, an earlier anti-tax provision...
by Danny Cullenward | Oct 27, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Wara and Cullenward submitted a comment to the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) and California Air Resources Board (ARB) on regional greenhouse gas emissions accounting and energy market design proposals presented by CAISO in an...
by Danny Cullenward | Sep 20, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Danny Cullenward submitted a formal comment letter to the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) to share his perspective on the relationship between California’s evolving climate policy portfolio and the critical market design questions...
by Danny Cullenward | Sep 19, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Michael War and Danny Cullenward submitted a comment letter to the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to address substantive policy and market design considerations in ARB’s proposal for a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions. We...
by Danny Cullenward | Sep 19, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Near Zero’s Danny Cullenward and Michael Wara of Stanford Law School submitted a formal comment letter to the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to raise concerns with respect to ARB’s legal authority to extend the cap-and-trade program...
by Danny Cullenward | Jul 22, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Near Zero’s Danny Cullenward submitted a comment letter to the State of Washington’s Department of Ecology to share important information about the status of the California market: The Department should be aware that California’s...
by Danny Cullenward | Jul 7, 2016 | Blog |
In May, California’s quarterly cap-and-trade auction imploded, with 90% of available allowances failing to find a buyer. Had these allowances sold at the minimum auction price, they would have brought in more than $990 million in total revenue—$550 million of which...
by Danny Cullenward | Jun 24, 2016 | Reports |
Go to report (pdf) Beginning in early 2016, California’s carbon market began to change. For the first time since the market’s launch, the Q1 2016 auction in February failed to sell out of all available current year allowances, although 95% of available allowances were...
