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Blake Shaffer 📊🇨🇦🇺🇦

Blake Shaffer 📊🇨🇦🇺🇦

@bcshaffer

prof @EconCalgary working on climate policy and electricity markets. Former energy trader. Not here much anymore. You can find me where the Sky is Blue :)

Calgary Katılım Ocak 2012
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🚨Call for Papers🚨 Announcing the 4th Annual Electricity Camp in the Rockies! Mix of researchers, practitioners and policy makers sharing research and insights on all things electricity. Plus (optional) hiking! See here for more info: nzeri.ca/electricity-ca…
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Kevin A. Bryan
Kevin A. Bryan@Afinetheorem·
See the follow-ups in this thread. This was murder by a masked coward agent of the government. Clear as day. And of course Tricia McLaughlin made up a totally bullshit story with no evidence as if we don't have cameras. You either believe in freedom or not. Choose wisely. 1/2
Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)@adamscochran

1/12 Frame by frame breakdown of this MURDER shows ICE is lying! -ICE had ALREADY disarmed the man before shooting. -The man NEVER drew his gun. At the 0:06 second mark we see the man’s hands on the ground covered in large gloves. His hands are empty.

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Economics@Calgary@EconCalgary·
Postdoc 1: Transmission Working with @bcshaffer and Sarah Johnston A mix of independent research and also being part of an exciting multiyear multi-province and multidisciplinary interprovincial transmission initiative! Details and apply here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/17062890-…
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Dave Sawyer
Dave Sawyer@enviroeconomics·
@bcshaffer @GK_Fellows @andrew_leach @KenBoessenkool Exactly. $130 is hard floor with unltd buyback. Soft floor an option where gov buys limited and vintage constrained Q; increase fund limit to pull along EMC so price corridor. Limited auction with a floor could help set soft floor. Offsets added to compliance mix lowers EMC.
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🚨Call for Speakers🚨 ⚡5th Electricity Camp in the Rockies 🗓️May 20-22 ⛰️Banff 👪Academics, policymakers and practitioners talking about all things electricity (+ hiking!) ✉️Email abstracts: electricity.centre@ucalgary.ca by Dec 15 Past programs: nzeri.ca/electricity-ca…
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Owen Winter
Owen Winter@OwenWntr·
Donald Trump's approval rating in our tracker has fallen to -18, the lowest it has ever been (lower than any point in his first term) economist.com/interactive/tr…
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"But what if we had one million EVs??? 😱😱" Let's put 1M EVs in Alberta in context...
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It's always been part of the national vision. The barriers are still there, waiting to be overcome. But the benefits---and urgency---have grown. Forget America; it's time to build the east-west power grid. By me, in Macleans today: macleans.ca/economy/forget…
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Ken Boessenkool
Ken Boessenkool@KenBoessenkool·
A sleeper of an issue some of us have been pointing at for a while now. Quebec industry is paying carbon tax rates one *half* of what other provinces’ industries are paying. This is not new.
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@trevortombe One addendum to my tweet: In 2025, firms can comply with a max of 80% offsets/credits. So that makes their effective marginal cost 0.8 x $28 + 0.2 x $95 = $41… exactly same (by fluke) as current QC permits! In 2026 goes to 90%.
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Trevor Tombe@trevortombe·
Wild! I had no idea the gap between the credit price and the headline carbon price in AB was so massive! Very relevant when comparing across provinces (and mistake for me to just compare headline prices).
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@KenBoessenkool It’s also not true. At the margin, AB emitters buy offsets or emissions credits for their compliance needs. Those trade bilaterally and significantly under the $95 policy price. Last trade: $28.55. cc: @trevortombe

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@gilmcgowan @KenBoessenkool @trevortombe The freeze is largely meaningless because the effective cost of emissions largely stems from traded credits. The freeze may stop people from banking credits from year to year, counting on the $15 lift. That would reduce demand and lower credit prices further.
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@KenBoessenkool @trevortombe They’re value is just what they can sell them for. At a max, buyers would pay up to the policy price. If there’s an oversupply, they trade at a discount to the policy price. That’s where we are now due to lax policy.
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