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Economist at @coschoolofmines @MinesEconBus, Faculty Fellow in the @payneinstitute. @bengilbertecon@econtwitter.net

Denver, Colorado
Joined March 2018
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What are the impacts of congestion in natural gas processing and transmission infrastructure on flaring and methane emissions in the Permian? New working paper with @magerton, Wes Blundell @WSUecons and @gregbupton provides evidence. Link: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4890…
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The primary finding is that midstream congestion in transporting natural gas out of the Permian Basin during the study period (2015-2021) is responsible for 34% of upstream flaring and 10% of upstream methane emissions, equivalent to $1.2 billion per year in climate costs.
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I guess we’re just allowing forward passes in the RWC now. Noted.
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I have a code to the thing Willie Nelson sang about if anyone wants one. Starting to pick up over there!
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Does "A Mixed Bag" already have it in the bag? Or can "Drill-Bit Parity" get up to parity in the polls during the last 12 hours of voting? I haven't been this engaged with Twitter since before Elon took over...
Replying to @JaereAere
Round 2: Match B Drill-Bit Parity: Supply-Side Links in Oil and Gas Markets tinyurl.com/jmr2b1 vs. A Mixed Bag: The Hidden Time Costs of Regulating Consumer Behavior tinyurl.com/jmr2b2
50%Drill-Bit Parity
50%A Mixed Bag
105 votes • Final results
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Yeah I really thought we had this in the bag…
You never know, @BenGilbertEcon... our parity bit detected NO ERROR with "Drill-bit Parity" 🫡
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OMG this is a tough opponent! I do not have barrels of oil puns. Just one good one.
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Noom, but for spending habits.
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Planning to speak to 5th graders about energy conservation at school as part of their regional energy reduction challenge. Somehow more terrifying than teaching college. Any suggestions out there on content and how to pitch it for this age? #energytwitter #econtwitter
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Congratulations Charlie! Great work.
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Very happy to see my former student Ensieh Shojaeddini's paper on policy-induced rebound effects in energy efficient lighting published in Environmental and Resource Economics! 1/ nam04.safelinks.protection.o…
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Ensieh used RECS data to construct lighting use measures and found a rebound effect from lighting subsidies that is largest for low-income households and smaller dwellings, but not large enough to overcome net energy savings from efficient bulbs.
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Profs: if students don’t follow your pop culture references, just assign them as homework. Brilliant strategy! I think my first few weeks of class will just be selected episodes of The Wire (i.e., all of them).
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Happening in 5 minutes! Wes Blundell presenting new work on natural gas supply chain constraints, flaring, and methane.
Today at 9 a.m. Central, join @LSUEnergy 's Dr. @gregbupton and coauthors, Wes Blundell, @magerton & @BenGilbertEcon for an @IA4EE webinar on the impact of #supplychain issues on #naturalgas flaring in West Texas’ #Permianbasin. @lsuresearch iaee.org/en/webinars/webinar…
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Really glad our paper (with @LaRiviereJS and Kevin Novan) found a good home @JEEM_tweets! The premise: when people move, if they are uncertain about their own average energy use in the new home then lots of funky things can happen with energy efficiency investments.
Recently accepted in #JEEM: "Uncertainty and additionality in energy efficiency programs," by Ben Gilbert, Jacob LaRiviere, & Kevin Novan. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Disclosure policies can help and have been studied (e.g., providing average bills of previous occupants or energy scores). But people may differ in how they interact with the capital stock of their new home. And most places don't have disclosure policies.
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Great presentation on irrigation decisions in humid regions by @MinesEconBus PhD student @danieljcooley at #AERE2022.
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Great presentation by @HannahGagarin1 this morning on our work on regional economic impacts of wind development at @AereOrg conference. Overall great opening session on renewable energy and community impacts.
Learned a lot in my #AERE2022 session this morning on "Revealed and Stated Preferences for Renewable Energy" 🌞🌬️ @HannahGagarin1 shared research on the economic impacts of wind development (and on important differences btwn using plant-level vs county-level data).
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This is the academic Rocky Balboa energy I needed today.
Replying to @anbrowndc
I recently got an R&R on a paper that had been desk rejected 10 times. I'm hoping 3 is your magic number here!
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This looks like a great paper!
Very excited about this new working paper with @aislinnbohren & @alexoimas, "Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement" dropbox.com/s/sp72pogz0lemje… We develop theoretical & empirical tools to model & measure the systemic drivers of discrimination in many settings Summary 🧵:
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If only there was a five letter word to describe how I feel about this loss. Wordle 221 X/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
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Come work with us!
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