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Gregory Nemet Research
La Follette School Working Paper Series
Demand pull, technology push, and government-led incentives for non-incremental technical change / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-001Journal Articles
Nemet, G.F. and D.M. Kammen (2007) “U.S. energy R&D: declining investment, increasing need, and the feasibility of expansion” Energy Policy 35(1): 746-755. Available through Science Direct.
Nemet, G.F. (2006) “Beyond the learning curve: factors influencing cost reductions in photovoltaics” Energy Policy 34(17): 3218-3232. Available through Science Direct.
Kammen, D.M. and G.F.Nemet (2005) “Reversing the incredible shrinking energy R&D budget” Issues in Science and Technology 22(1): 84-88, Fall.
Nemet, G.F. and A.J.Bailey (2000) “Distance and health care utilization among the rural elderly” Social Science and Medicine 50:1197-1208. Available through Science Direct.
Book Chapters
Nemet, G.F. (2008, forthcoming) “Evaluating the demand-pull hypothesis” in Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy: Economic, Institutional and Management Approaches. T. Foxon, J. Koehler, and C.Oughton. Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar.
Kammen, D.M. and G.F.Nemet (2007) “Energy R&D investment” in Energy and American Society—13 Myths. B. Sovacool and M. Brown. Springer: 289–310.
Testimony
Kammen, D.M. (2007) “A Ten Year Outlook for Energy” Testimony provided to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Washington, D.C. 28 February
(G.F.Nemet, primary researcher).
Kammen, D.M. (2006) “Department of Energy’s Plan for Climate Change Technology Programs” Testimony provided to the U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee, subcommittee on Energy, Washington, D.C. 20 September (G.F.Nemet, primary researcher).
Kammen, D.M. (2003) “The Future of University Nuclear Science and Engineering Programs” Testimony provided to the U.S.House of Representatives Science Committee, subcommittee on Energy, Washington, D.C. 10 June (G.F.Nemet, primary researcher).
Working Papers
Nemet, G.F. (2006) “How well does learning-by-doing explain cost reductions in a carbonfree energy technology?” Nota di Lavoro 143.2006, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milan, Italy.
Nemet, G.F. (2006) “Net radiative forcing from widespread deployment of photovoltaics” Working Paper, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) U.C. Berkeley.
Nemet, G.F. (2005) “Technical change in photovoltaics and the applicability of the learning curve model” Interim Report 05-029, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
Government Reports
Taylor, M.R., E.S. Rubin, and G.F. Nemet (2006) “Chapter 3: The Role of Technological Innovation in Meeting California’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets” in Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California for the California Environmental Protection Agency.
Taylor, M.R., D. Thornton, G.F.Nemet, and M. Colvin (2006) “Government Actions and Innovation in Environmental Technology for Power Production: The Cases of Selective Catalytic Reduction and Wind Power in California” CEC-500-2006-053 CA Energy Commission.
Taylor, M.R., G.F.Nemet, C.Wadia, T. Dillavou, and M.Colvin (2005) “Government Actions and Innovation in Environmental Technology for Power Production: The Cases of PV Cells, Solar Thermal Electric Power, and Solar Water Heating” CA Energy Commission.
Lipman, T.E., G.F.Nemet, and D.M.Kammen (2004) “A review of advanced power technology programs in the United States and abroad including linked transportation and stationary sector developments” ARB-R-04-813 California Air Resources Board.
Refereed and Invited Talks
Nemet, G.F. (2007) “Demand-pull energy technology policies, diffusion, and improvements in California wind power” International Energy Workshop. Stanford, CA 25–27 June.
Nemet, G.F. (2007) “Learning curves for photovoltaics” Workshop at the International Energy Agency. Paris 11-12 June.
Nemet, G.F. (2006) “U.S. energy R&D” 26th USAEE/IAEE North American Conference. Ann Arbor, MI, 24-27 September.
Nemet, G.F. (2006) “Demand-pull for wind innovation in California” UK Energy Research Centre workshop on innovation in energy systems. Oxford, U.K., 14–15 September.
Nemet, G.F. (2006) “Learning curves and the sources of cost reductions in photovoltaics” EAERE/FEEM/VIU Summer School in Environmental Economics: Computable General
Equilibrium Modeling in Env. and Resource Economics. Venice, Italy, 25 June–1 July.
Taylor, M.R. and G.F. Nemet (2006) “The interaction between policy and innovation in clean energy technologies” AEA/ASSA/IAEE Meetings: Current Issues in Energy Economics and Energy Modeling. Boston, 6–8 January.
Nemet, G.F. and D.M. Kammen (2005) “The effectiveness of energy R&D” Science and Technology in Society Conference. AAAS, Washington, 23–24 April.
Nemet, G.F. (2005) “Technological change and future greenhouse-gas emissions: the applicability of the learning curve model to photovoltaics” Breslauer Symposium on Social and Scientific Aspects of Global Climate Change. U.C. Berkeley, 25 February.
Taylor, M.R. and G.F. Nemet (2004) “Government actions and innovation in NOx control and wind power: the effect of California” 26th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Research Conference. Atlanta, GA, 28–30 October.
Taylor, M.R., D. Thornton, G.F. Nemet, and M. Colvin (2004) “Policy, diffusion, and experience curves” International Energy Workshop. Paris, 22–24 June.
Lipman, T.E., G.F. Nemet, D.M. Kammen, and R. Friesen (2003) “A review of advanced power technology pgms. in U.S. and abroad” The Fuel Cell Seminar. Miami, 3 November.