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A Methodology for Estimating Large-Customer Demand Response MarketPotential

Goldman, Charles; Hopper, Nicole; Bharvirkar, Ranjit; … - 2008

elasticities to account for behavior and prices; compiled participation rates and elasticity values from six DR options offered to … elasticity approach for large-customer DR options that rely on customer-initiated response to prices, rather than the engineering …-residential customers results in 1-3% reductions in their class peak demand in response to prices or incentive payments of $500/MWh …

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Utility Integrated Resource Planning: An Emerging Driver of NewRenewable Generation in the Western United States

Bolinger, Mark; Wiser, Ryan - 2009

In the United States, markets for renewable generation--especially wind power--have grown substantially in recent years. This growth is typically attributed to technology improvements and resulting cost reductions, the availability of federal tax incentives, and aggressive state policy efforts....

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Heliostat cost reduction study.

Jones, Scott A.; Lumia, Ronald.; Davenport, Roger; … - 2008

Power towers are capable of producing solar-generated electricity and hydrogen on a large scale. Heliostats are the most important cost element of a solar power tower plant. Since they constitute {approx} 50% of the capital cost of the plant it is important to reduce heliostat cost as much as...

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The Role of Demand Response in Default Service Pricing

Barbose, Galen; Goldman, Chuck; Neenan, Bernie - 2008

Dynamic retail electricity pricing, especially real-time pricing (RTP), has been widely heralded as a panacea for providing much-needed demand response in electricity markets. However, in designing default service for competitive retail markets, demand response often appears to be an...

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RTP as an Optional Service: It's Alive, But Is It Well?

Goldman, Charles; Barbose, Galen; Neenan, Bernie - 2009

Economists have advocated for real-time pricing (RTP) of electricity on the basis of the gains in economic efficiency that would result from charging customers the contemporaneous marginal cost of supplying electricity instead of the average cost. In recent years, RTP has also become the subject...

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Performance Contracting and Energy Efficiency in the State Government Market

Bharvirkar, Ranjit; Goldman, Charles; Gilligan, Donald; … - 2009

concerns, rising electricity and natural gas prices, and lean economic times that motivate states to look more aggressively for …

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Maintaining Generation Adequacy in a Restructuring U.S. Electricity Industry

Hirst, E.; Hadley, S. - 2008

choose to face real-time (spot) prices and will respond to the occasionally very high prices by reducing electricity use at … volatile energy prices; (2) lower electricity costs and prices; and (3) a generation mix with more baseload, and less peaking …, including fuel prices, initial mix of generation capacity, and customer response to electricity prices (load shapes and system …

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Customer Response to RTP in Competitive Markets: A Study ofNiagara Mohawk's Standard Offer Tariff

Boisvert, Richard N.; Cappers, Peter; Goldman, Charles; … - 2009

price response.Peak and off-peak electricity can be: perfect complements, substitutes,or substitutes where high peak prices …/Retail andGovernment/Education customers are more price responsive on hot days andwhen the ratio of peak to off-peak prices is high. Price …

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E-laboratories : agent-based modeling of electricity markets.

North, M.; Conzelmann, G.; Koritarov, V.; Macal, C.; … - 2009

electricity market prices. …

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Estimated increases in the cost of electricity under three acid-rain control bills

Hillsman, E.L.; Alvic, D.R. - 2008

Several bills were introduced in the past two Congresses to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from electric power plants. The effects of these bills on electricity costs depend on features of the bills, on the mix of generating capacity owned by different electric utilities,...

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