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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)"”.
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Fundamental price analysis of renewable identification numbers
Under the final RFS1 legislation of 2007, Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) were introduced as the mechanism for tracking compliance with United States government mandated volumes of renewable fuel blending in a given year. Every RIN has a unique code which corresponds to a gallon of …
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Impacts and Feasibility of the US and the EU Sustainability Criteria on Existing Land-Use Practices
… consequences of national and multi-national biofuel policies. They explored the impacts of biofuels mandates mainly based on the quantitative biofuel targets. However, the recently updated renewable policies of the United States and the European Union, which are the US Renewable Fuel Standard …
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Three essays on the links between agriculture and energy policies in the U.S.
… price and expenditure effects of domestic biofuel policies. The results indicate that the cellulosic biofuel sub-mandate alone could increase biomass prices by an average of 50% to 100% over the baseline values. Biomass expenditures by sectors competing with biofuel producers increase by an …
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Climate and energy policy for U.S. passenger vehicles : a technology-rich economic modeling and policy analysis
… U.S. households alter their reliance on higher fuel economy vehicles in response to gasoline price changes. Using micro-level household vehicle usage data collected during a period of gasoline price fluctuations in 2008 to 2009, the econometric analysis shows that this short-run vehicle …
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A dynamic analysis of U.S. biofuels policy impact on land use, greenhouse gas emissions and social welfare
Biofuels have been promoted to achieve energy security and as a solution to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector. This dissertation presents a framework to examine the extent to which biofuel policies reduce gasoline consumption and GHG emissions and their …
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Welfare effects of biofuel policies in the presence of environmental externalities and pre-existing distortions
Policy intervention in the biofuel market has led to a significant increase in biofuel production and use in the past several years. However, the welfare effect of biofuel policies, specifically the ethanol tax credit for corn ethanol, ethanol import tariff and renewable fuel standard (RFS) mandate …
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The welfare cost and greenhouse gas emissions effects of sector-specific energy policies
… of a patchwork of technology and performance standards implemented in different economic sectors and at different levels of government, rather than a more efficient economy-wide carbon tax or cap-and-trade policy. This is evidenced by policies such as state-level Renewable Portfolio Standards …
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Barriers Impacting United States Advanced Biofuel Projects
… was enacted to help bolster the emerging biofuel industry, 52% of advanced biofuel projects were closed or shut down by 2015. However, there are no complete lists of barriers that impeded these projects. The goal of this study was to develop a framework of barriers impeding success of …