Peer-reviewed journal articles, working papers, and other publications apply Stanford’s interdisciplinary strengths in engineering, economics, business, and energy policy to increase global knowledge of low-carbon energy technologies.
Corporate Carbon Accounting: Balance Sheets and Flow Statements
Current corporate disclosures regarding carbon emissions lack commonly accepted accounting rules. The carbon accrual accounting system described…
Advances in Power-to-Gas Technologies: Cost and Conversion Efficiency
Widespread adoption of hydrogen as an energy carrier is widely believed to require continued advances in Power-to-Gas (PtG) technologies. Here we…
Area Conditions and Positive Incentives: Engaging Local Communities to Protect Forests
Tropical deforestation for agriculture causes alarming CO2 emissions and loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. To prevent this, various…
Corporate Carbon Reporting: Improving Transparency and Accountability
Numerous multinational firms have recently pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to a net-zero position by the year 2050. These pledges…
Executive Compensation Tied to ESG Performance: International Evidence
Using a wide sample of international publicly traded firms, this paper studies the rapidly increasing practice of incorporating Environmental,…
Advances in Power-to-Gas Technologies: Cost and Conversion Efficiency
Widespread adoption of hydrogen as an energy carrier is widely believed to require continued advances in Power-to-Gas (PtG) technologies. Here we…
Economics of Grid-Scale Energy Storage in Wholesale Electricity Markets
I investigate the incentives for investing and operating grid-scale energy storage in electricity markets and the need for policies to complement…
Energy Storage and Conversion: Reversible Power-to-Gas Systems
In the transition to decarbonized energy systems, Power-to-Gas (PtG) processes have the potential to connect the existing markets for electricity…
The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources
Competing power generation sources have experienced considerable…
Transparency on the Path to Net-Zero
We propose and describe a corporate carbon reporting framework intended to strengthen the credibility and transparency of the existing net-zero…