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Gregory Nemet Research

Journal Articles

• Nemet, G.F. (forthcoming) “Inter-technology knowledge spillovers for energy technologies.” Energy Economics. [preprint]
• Wilson, C., A. Grubler, K.S. Gallagher, and G.F. Nemet (forthcoming) “Energy end-use technologies marginalised in innovation for climate change mitigation.” Nature Climate Change.
• Nemet, G.F. (2012) “Subsidies for new technologies and knowledge spillovers from learning by doing.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 31(3). [preprint]
• Gallagher, K.S., A. Grubler, L. Kuhl, G.F. Nemet, and C. Wilson (2012) “The Energy Technology Innovation System” Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 37.
• Nemet, G.F. and E. Johnson (2012) “Do important inventions benefit from knowledge originating in other technological domains?” Research Policy, 41(1): 190–200. [preprint]
  
• Nemet, G.F. and A.R. Brandt. (2012) “Willingness to pay for a climate backstop: liquid fuel producers and direct CO2 air capture” The Energy Journal, 33(1): 53–82. [preprint]
• Rasmussen, D.J. , T. Holloway, and G.F. Nemet (2011) “Opportunities and challenges in assessing climate change impacts on wind energy” Environmental Research Letters, 6(2):024008.
• Nemet, G.F. (2010) “Cost containment in climate policy and incentives for technology development.” Climatic Change, 103, 423-443. [preprint]
• Nemet, G.F. (2010) “Robust incentives and the design of a climate change governance regime” Energy Policy, 38(11)7216–7225. [preprint]
• Nemet, G.F., T. Holloway, and P. Meier (2010) “Implications of incorporating air-quality benefits into climate change policymaking.” Environmental Research Letters 5(1):014007.
• Nemet, G.F. and E. Baker. (2009). "Demand Subsidies Versus R&D: Comparing the Uncertain Impacts of Policy on a Pre-commercial Low-carbon Energy Technology." The Energy Journal, 30:4, pp. 49-80. (Campbell Watkins Award for the best paper published in The Energy Journal in 2009). [preprint]
• Nemet, G.F. (2009). “Demand pull, technology push, and government-led incentives for non-incremental technical change.” Research Policy 38(5): 700-709.
  
• Nemet, G.F. (2009). "Net radiative forcing from widespread deployment of photovoltaics." Environmental Science & Technology 43(6): 2173–2178.
• Nemet, G.F. (2009). “Interim monitoring of cost dynamics for publicly supported energy technologies." Energy Policy 37(3): 825-835.
  
• 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.
  
• Nemet, G.F. (2006). “Beyond the learning curve: factors influencing cost reductions in photovoltaics.” Energy Policy 34(17): 3218-3232.
  
• 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.
  

Book Chapters

• Nemet, G.F.  2012. “Technological change and climate-change policy” in Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics. Ed. J.Shogren. Elsevier.
• Nemet, G. F. and D. Husmann (forthcoming). “PV learning curves and cost dynamics” in Advances in Photovoltaics Part I, 1st Edition. G. Willeke and E. Weber, Academic Press. 87.
• GEA. 2012.  “The Energy Technology Innovation System ” In The Global Energy Assessment (GEA). Cambridge University Press (Nemet, Lead Author).
• Nemet, Gregory and Diana Husmann, 2012. “Historical and future cost dynamics of Photovoltaic technology,” in Comprehensive Renewable Energy. A. Sayigh et al. eds: Elsevier, pp 47—72.
• Baker, Erin, Gregory F. Nemet and Peter Rasmussen, 2012. “Modeling the Costs of Carbon Capture.” in Handbook of CO2 in Power Systems. Q. P. Zheng, S. Rebennack, P. M. Pardalos, M. V. F. Pereira and N. A. Iliadis. Berlin Heidelberg, Springer: 349-372.
• IPCC. 2011. “Chapter 11, Policy, Financing and Implementation.” In Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Renewable Energy, (Nemet, Contributing Author).
• Nemet, Gregory. 2010. “Benefit Cost Analysis of R&D as a Solution to Climate Change” in Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits. Bjorn Lomborg ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 349–359.
• Sark, Wilfired van, Lena Neij, Gregory Nemet, and Clas-Otto Wene. 2010. "Photovoltaic Solar energy" in Technological Learning in the Energy Sector: Lessons for Policy, Industry and Science. Martin Junginger, Wildfried van Sark and Andre Faaij eds. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar: 93–114.
• Sark, Wilfired van, Erik Alsema, Gregory Nemet, and Gerritt Jan Schaeffer. 2010. “General aspects and caveats of experience curve analysis” in Technological Learning in the Energy Sector: Lessons for Policy, Industry and Science. Martin Junginger, Wildfried van Sark and Andre Faaij eds. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar: 18–35.
• Nemet, G.F. (2008). “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.

La Follette School Working Paper Series

• Credibility, ambition, and discretion in long-term U.S. energy policy targets from 1973 to 2011 / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2013-007
• Willingness to Pay for a Climate Backstop: Liquid Fuel Producers and Direct CO2 Air Capture / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-015
• Do Important Inventions Benefit from Knowledge Originating in Other Technological Domains? / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2011-014
• Willingness to Pay for Climate Policy: A Review of Estimates / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-011
• Robust Incentives and the Design of a Climate Change Governance Regime La Follette School Working Paper No. 2010-006
  
• Implications of Climate Policy in a Carbon-Intensive Region: Estimating Abatement costs under Deep Policy Uncertainty / La Follette School Working Paper No. 2009-015

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.
  

Biography

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