combination of policy instruments will be more economically efficient than any single strategy in order to correct for multiple … externalities in the market. This paper employs a theoretical model of the electricity sector developed in Fischer & Newell (2008 …) to compare the cost-effectiveness of individual and combinations of policy instruments. Despite many of the parameter …

used to judge how effectively RTP actually induces DR, particularly in the context of restructured electricity markets ….g. at different nominal prices) and to determine the distribution of individual customers' response. …

Across the United States, as competition in the supply and delivery of electricity has been introduced, states have … popular policy mechanisms for ensuring such continued support has been the system-benefits charge (SBC), a non …-bypassable charge to electricity customers (usually applied on a cents/kWh basis) used to collect funds for public purpose programs …

electricity in the central and upper Midwestern portion of the United States. Region-wide, centralized, security-constrained, bid … prices, which in turn reveals the location of congestion within MISO's footprint, as well as the distribution of congestion …

Information on the value of reliable electricity service can be used to assess the economic efficiency of investments … in generation, transmission and distribution systems, to strategically target investments to customer segments that … reliability for electricity customers in the US. These estimates were obtained by analyzing the results from 28 customer value of …

This study was conducted in response to Section 1205 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPACT), requiring the U …-owned utilities (IOUs) and nonutility electricity generators (NUGs) when making decisions on technologies for new generating plants … distribution of electric power was not studied. …

resources and customer responses. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed the Oak Ridge Competitive Electricity … with restructuring. An unchanging transmission and distribution (T&D) component is added to both types of generation prices …

. Reductions in the energy bill, and therefore DG attractiveness, depend on the electricity tariff structure; a system created … with similar consumption patterns. Recently, electric utilities began to question the equity of this electricity pricing … transmission and distribution costs - traditionally recovered through a volumetric($/kWh) mechanism - under existing tariff …