Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Professor; Sylvan C. Coleman Chair in Finance and Accounting; Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley
Dudley and Louisa Dillard Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, and 2023 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, and 2023 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
Lecturer, Department: Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing, Northumbria University
Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School, and 2025 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow
This study, sponsored by the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and the Kenan-Flagler Energy Center, analyzes the economic cost of renewable energy’s ‘last frontier’, providing reliable baseload power. The analysis utilizes five financial and energy models to examine the cost of replacing baseload power with various energy sources to achieve fully decarbonized utility scale electricity generation.