Ron Chan

Environmental Economist at @OfficialUoM. Energy, climate and air pollution. Views are my own.

[Ron Chan @ronzzchan]

📢Call for papers!

🔌We are announcing MWEET: an economics of energy transition workshop in Manchester on Dec 11-12!

🗨️Keynotes: Shanjun Li + Michael Pollitt

📎Please submit your abstract at https://t.co/Nn9wUshAPp by 1 Aug

💡More info: https://t.co/8YbgBalz3b

Pls retweet :)

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

The Netherlands is Europe’s best-governed country. Unfortunately, it is paralyzed. Construction is freezing up, and Europe’s most valuable tech company (ASML) is threatening to leave. What happened should be a warning for every other EU member state. THREAD (1/11)

[Ron Chan @ronzzchan]

And before flying back to Europe next week, glad to be stopping by at #AERE2024 in DC to meet some old and new friends there! Say hi if you are going to be around,
(and my talk if you are up early enough on Friday after the happy hours!)

[Ron Chan @ronzzchan]

Glad to have stopped by Banff (finally!) before the end of my sabbatical. Learned so much during the electricity camp this year with the gorgeous backdrop.

And of course thanks so much to @bcshaffer and Sara for hosting this amazing event!

[Ron Chan @ronzzchan]

@AhlvikLassi @EAERE_envecon Many congrats Lassi!

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor @CarolineFohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, "What are you doing?" That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

[Manchester Economics @ManUniEconomics]

We are hiring! Two Lecturer positions (Teaching and Scholarship, fixed term 2 years) one in Development Economics and one in Econometrics. We are looking forward to receiving applications from interesting and enthusiastic colleagues.
https://t.co/BtvONAD4n3

[Tristan Abbey (EIA-1) @EIA_One]

Today, EIA is releasing the Wholesale Electricity Market Portal.

Let me tell you why I'm excited about data dashboards generally and this portal specifically 😀🧵👇

[Ron Chan @ronzzchan]

@Sefi_Roth_ Congrats Sefi!

[Ron Chan @ronzzchan]

While “Sora” does sound quite scary, im fairly impressed with how much progress AI has made in the past 12 months

[Sambhav Gupta @sambhav_ai]

🚨 Good Bye Reality

Every single video in this thread was generated by Open AI's new text to video model "Sora" 🤯

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[CMU Scott Institute for Energy Innovation @CMUenergy]

It was great to hear visiting faculty fellow Ron Chan (@ronzzchan) discuss the challenges and opportunities in the clean energy transition from an economics perspective. Thank you to those that joined us this afternoon!

[Ron Chan @ronzzchan]

Stay tuned for our very exciting project!

[Vero Vienne @VeroVienne]

I'm happy to announce that I've been awarded a @Spencer_Fdn Research Grant!🎉We will explore the effect of environmental factors on #education outcomes👩‍🏫
🌟Thx to the team : Jeanne Tschoop, @ronzzchan , @martinopelli, @r_valdebenito. And thx to @UoHBusinessSch for the support

[CMU Scott Institute for Energy Innovation @CMUenergy]

Visiting @CMUenergy faculty fellow Ron Chan (@ronzzchan) sat down with executive director Daniel Tkacik to chat about his research, his favorite things about Pittsburgh and dispelling rumors that economists bite (he's kidding, of course). Read here: https://t.co/rcW0hNLoB9

[Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins]

Anyone writing/thinking/arguing about the impacts of permitting/not permitting US LNG terminals really ought to read this work by @bprest @HarrisonGFell @DxGordon & TJ Conway on how to think about the net impact of 'supply-side' interventions like this:
https://t.co/Z56kWjwoKE

[Ron Chan @ronzzchan]

An excellent and important work - it did show that online learning can be costly, especially to academically-at-risk. Universities should rethink their unidirectional push on this, but perhaps the online course design also matters.

[Ron Chan @ronzzchan]

Somehow heads of school/faculty forgot how they spent their time before they became heads

[PHD Comics @PHDcomics]

How profs spend their time

[Ron Chan @ronzzchan]

Exactly my thoughts lol

[Brian Albrecht @BrianCAlbrecht]

Wait, you guys have RAs?

[Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏 @DrTELS]

A short thread on why the @WSJOpinion & @BjornLomborg are so wrong to use global burnt area datasets to build a strawman argument.
1) Global burnt area according to 20+ year satellite records is going down, we know that.
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[Ron Chan @ronzzchan]

To British people: no, you cannot bring a family size shampoo through airport security

[Ron Chan @ronzzchan]

Now all paperwork is in, happy to share some personal news: I will be visiting @CMUenergy as a visiting fellow from Sept'23 to May'24!

Look forward to reconnecting with friends in US and Canada again, so hit me up!