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Geothermal Electric Projects from a User's Viewpoint

Nugent, James M. - 2006

The financing of a geothermal power plant has a unique characteristic which is not present with conventional oil, coal … concerns about the increased economic risks, the sources of financing are substantially different; thus, the risk of loss to …

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Review of international geothermal activities and assessment of US industry opportunities: Summary report

2007

This report summarizes a study initiated to review and assess international developments in the geothermal energy field and to define business opportunities for the US geothermal industry. The report establishes data bases on the status of worldwide geothermal development and the competitiveness...

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Program evaluation: Weatherization Residential Assistance Partnership (WRAP) Program

2008

The Connecticut low income weatherization program was developed in response to a 1987 rate docket order from the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) to Connecticut Light Power Co., an operating subsidiary of Northeast Utilities (NU). (Throughout this report, NU is referred to...

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Proposed Revenues, Financial Strategy, and Program Costs for FY 1992 and 1993 : Technical Appendix, BPA Programs in Perspective.

United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2009

Programs in Perspective is the Bonneville Power Administration's public involvement process (PIP) for engaging customers and other stakeholders in a regional dialog to set strategic direction and broad program plans for BPA effort. This planning leads into a biennial rate setting cycle and...

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Intergenerational transfers and the social discount rate

Howarth, R.B.; Norgaard, R.B. - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...

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ELSA: an electric power supply analysis model for the Pacific Northwest. [Effects of developments]

Harrington, T.P.; Jacobsen, J.J. - 2008

Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) is conducting a program to help assess impacts of energy-related developments through the year 2025 in six northwestern states--Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Alaska. ELSA (Electric Power Supply Analysis Model), one component of this...

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Analysis of debt leveraging in private power projects

Kahn, E.P.; Meal, M.; Doerrer, S.; Morse, S. - 2008

on debt financing. This study examines debt leveraging in private power projects. The policy debate on these issues has …

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Geopressured-geothermal energy development: government incentives and institutional structures

Frederick, D.O.; Prestwood, D.C.L.; Roberts, K.; … - 2007

The following subjects are included: a geothermal resource overview, the evolution of the current Texas geopressured-geothermal institutional structure, project evaluation with uncertainty and the structure of incentives, the natural gas industry, the electric utility industry, potential...

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Positioning the electric utility to build information infrastructure

2008

In two particular respects (briefly investigated in this study from a lawyer`s perspective), electric utilities appear uniquely well-positioned to contribute to the National Information Infrastructure (NII). First of all, utilities have legal powers derived from their charters and operating...

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Comparison of financing costs for wind turbine and fossil powerplants

Kahn, E. - 2009

This paper compares the financing costs of wind turbine powerplants with those of fossil powerplants. The goal of this … Act of 1992 on the financing of wind turbine projects. Conclusions are offered in Section 5. In the past two years there …. Nonetheless, there appears to be a significant advantage in financing costs for conventional projects compared to wind turbines …

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