The CPI cooled again in December driven by a massive fall in Energy prices. As shown below, the fall in Energy has been a big reason for the recent drop in inflation. Commodities have also been a driver down as Used Cars and Trucks fell -2.5% MoM and -8.8% YoY. That said, stickier...
Over the last decade, the average cost of electricity from solar photovoltaic has fallen 82% and that of wind power has also dropped by one third. The fast-falling renewable energy prices lay the solid foundation for accomplishing carbon neutrality targets. Recent research published by He, Lin ...
The numbers suggest the market may be bottoming out, with 21 of 70 cities reporting steady or rising new home prices, the highest proportion this year. Property investment in the country, however, continued to contract at double-digit rates in November, falling by 10.4% year on year, with ...
The trend has some economists talking about zero inflation and even "deflation." If this happens, interest rates on everything from mortgages to auto loans will fall. Prices of existing bonds will rise. And an employee's wage hike would be "real," not just a catch-up increase to offset ...
A higher elasticity of substitution leads to a higher level of final energy demand in the baseline scenario, reflecting that the average price of heating services is falling towards 2030. This falling price trend is driven by four main factors (i) energy efficiency retrofits investments, (ii) ...
renewable energy auctions are a trend that emerging markets embraced first and that has brought steep declines in renewable prices across the globe. 84 some solar and wind products designed in and for emerging markets are also now being deployed in developed markets in a process of reverse innovat...
Another troubling trend supporting the bulls is that large producers, such as Iran, Indonesia and Mexico, are actually importing gasoline, which underscores the critical nature of the current lack of refinery capacity. Further, those governments are then subsidizing the retail prices of gasoline to ...
However, improving technology are eliminating these problems and causing the prices of utility scale batteries and electric vehicle batteries to drop. The addition of large battery farms to solar fields has enabled both an island in Hawaii and soon part of Australia to become self-sufficient with ...
22 The upward pressure and exposure to volatility this would place on natural gas prices could enhance the relative competitiveness of renewables vis-à-vis gas in power production. Meanwhile, EU rules to reduce methane emissions could boost US production of lower carbon gas regardless of US ...
I examine the common trend in inflation for consumer prices and consumer prices excluding prices of food and energy. Both the personal consumption expendit... MT Kiley - 《Finance & Economics Discussion》 被引量: 86发表: 2008年 The impact of energy prices on the volatility of ethanol prices ...