Navius consultants publish articles and white papers on a variety of energy, climate change, and economic modeling topics.
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Biofuels in Canada 2019: Tracking biofuel consumption, feedstocks and avoided greenhouse gas emissions
April 2019
Navius Research has released the 2019 edition of the “Biofuels in Canada” report. This report uses public data to catalog the volume of transportation biofuels consumed in each Canadian province while estimating the impact of biofuel consumption on greenhouse gas emissions and transportation energy costs.
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Featured Journal Article
How policy can build the plug-in electric vehicle market: Insights from the REspondent-based Preference And Constraints (REPAC) model
Wolinetz, M. & J. Axsen.
2017
This study, published in the April 2017 issue of Technological Forecasting & Social Change journal, describes a plug-in electric vehicle market uptake model and summarises its results analysing the impacts of different plug-in electric vehicle deployment policies.
Other Journal Articles
Melton, N., J. Axsen & S. Goldberg. 2017. Evaluating plug-in electric vehicle policies in the context of long-term greenhouse gas reduction goals: Comparing 10 Canadian provinces using the PEV policy report card. Energy Policy, 107, 381-393.
Bataille, C. & N. Melton. 2017. Energy efficiency and economic growth: A retrospective CGE analysis for Canada from 2002 to 2012. Energy Economics, 64, 118-130.
Wolinetz & Axsen. 2017. How policy can build the plug-in electric vehicle market: Insights from the REspondent-based Preference And Constraints (REPAC) model. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 117: 238-250.
Melton, N., J. Axsen & D. Sperling. 2016. Moving beyond alternative fuel hype to decarbonize transportation. Nature Energy, 1, 16013. Learn More ➥
Bataille, C., N. Melton & M. Jaccard. 2015. Policy uncertainty and diffusion of carbon capture and storage in an optimal region. Climate Policy, 15(5): 565-582.
Jaccard, M., N. Melton & J. Nyboer. 2011. Institutions and Processes for Scaling Up Renewables: Run-of-River Hydropower in British Columbia. Energy Policy, 39(7): 4042-4050.
Peters, J., C. Bataille, N. Rivers, & M. Jaccard. 2010. Taxing Emissions, Not Income: How to Moderate the Regional Impact of Federal Environment Policy. C.D. Howe Institute, 314: Toronto, ON.