Browsing by Subject "Georgia"

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    Lessons Learned from Third-Party Solar PPA Development: Influences, Trends, and Implications for Georgia
    (2016-04-28) Chen, Gwen; Fan, Wusi; Gao, Shuo; Peckham, Oliver
    Third-party solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) emerged in the 2000s and provided a new financing option for solar energy. Currently, third-party solar PPAs have been authorized in 25 states and DC in the U.S. and are successfully facilitating residential rooftop solar growth. Georgia recently legalized third-party solar PPAs through the Solar Power Free-Market Financing Act of 2015. This paper analyzes factors that impact third-party solar PPAs and evaluates those factors in the context of Georgia. We assessed solar resources, net metering, the Investment Tax Credit (ITC), Solar Renewable Energy Certificates (SRECs), differentiated state-level incentives, the regulatory environment, and consumer preferences. We also considered some potential future policy and market trends, such as the Clean Power Plan and electric vehicles. Our analysis shows how regulatory supports significantly drive third-party solar PPA growth and can provide our client with an expectation of third-party solar PPA development in Georgia.
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    Online engagement with 2020 election misinformation and turnout in the 2021 Georgia runoff election.
    (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022-08) Green, Jon; Hobbs, William; McCabe, Stefan; Lazer, David
    Following the 2020 general election, Republican elected officials, including then-President Donald Trump, promoted conspiracy theories claiming that Joe Biden's close victory in Georgia was fraudulent. Such conspiratorial claims could implicate participation in the Georgia Senate runoff election in different ways-signaling that voting doesn't matter, distracting from ongoing campaigns, stoking political anger at out-partisans, or providing rationalizations for (lack of) enthusiasm for voting during a transfer of power. Here, we evaluate the possibility of any on-average relationship with turnout by combining behavioral measures of engagement with election conspiracies online and administrative data on voter turnout for 40,000 Twitter users registered to vote in Georgia. We find small, limited associations. Liking or sharing messages opposed to conspiracy theories was associated with higher turnout than expected in the runoff election, and those who liked or shared tweets promoting fraud-related conspiracy theories were slightly less likely to vote.