Weekly Energy Economics Paper Monitor

2026-08-24 to 2026-08-31

Weekly Brief

This weekly digest tracks newly published papers from selected journals and free metadata feeds, with a primary focus on energy economics across demand, supply, markets, prices, policy, and forecasting. Climate-sensitive demand, exposure, adaptation, and specialized empirical approaches are treated as important subthemes rather than hard requirements.

Report Window 2026-08-24 to 2026-08-31
Papers Identified 1
Highlighted Below 1
Journals Checked 2

This week's shortlist centered on Energy demand, supply, markets, and policy, with 1 relevant paper identified and 1 highlighted below.

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Key Themes This Week

A quick overview of the main ideas that shaped this reporting window.

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Energy demand, supply, markets, and policy

The strongest papers this week focused on core energy-economics questions around demand, supply, pricing, market design, and policy.

Weekly Synthesis

The sections below bring the most relevant papers together with short editorial summaries and direct links.

Energy demand, supply, markets, and policy

This week's most relevant papers concentrated on core questions in energy demand, supply, prices, and policy.

Quarantining Electric Utilities

The Energy Journal | 2026-08-27

Despite state and federal efforts to restructure wholesale power markets, regulated utilities continue to own generation, transmission, and distribution affiliates. This Article describes challenges vertical integration creates in different electricity markets and analyzes these problems using literatures in both economics and law. It argues that policymakers should quarantine rate regulated utilities to reduce utility incentives to self-deal and otherwise direct investment away from socially beneficial grid...

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