generating capacity added in the U.S. between 1999 and 2005 (EIA 2006b), bringing the nationwide market share of gas …-clearing price for all generators in a competitive wholesale market, there is a direct link between natural gas prices and wholesale … investment decisions. Against this backdrop of high, volatile, and unpredictable natural gas prices, increasing the market …

installations are expected to increase by 1,850 megawatts (MW), resulting in a total installed capacity of about 4,400 MW. The … market expansion is supported by a variety of Federal and state incentives in the form of production tax credits, renewable … increases, and enforcement of clean air laws are increasingly important wind market drivers in some regions. Continuing research …

U.S. wind power market, with a particular focus on 2008. As with previous editions, this report begins with an overview … of key wind power installation-related trends: trends in wind capacity growth in the U.S., how that growth compares to … utilities, and the quantity of proposed wind capacity in various interconnection queues in the United States. Next, the report …

Against the backdrop of increasingly volatile natural gas prices, renewable energy resources, which by their nature are …-term price stability, a utility or other retail electricity supplier that is looking to expand its resource portfolio (or a … no natural gas fuel price risk, and if the market values that attribute, then the most appropriate comparison is to the …

In the United States, there has been substantial recent growth in wind energy generating capacity, with growth … averaging 24 percent annually during the past five years. About 1,700 MW of wind energy capacity was installed in 2001, while … renewable portfolio standards (RPS), federal and state financial incentives, and integrated resource planning; as well as market …

regions such as the western United States, where retail competition has failed to take root. As practiced in the United States … United States, however, the most recent resource plans call for a significant amount of new wind power capacity. These …

quantify the price stability benefit that wind and other renewables provide. This paper attempts to quantify this benefit by … equating it with the cost of achieving price stability through other means, particularly gas-based financial derivatives ….50 cents/kWh over expected spot prices to lock in natural gas prices for the next 10 years. This incremental cost is …

case long-term natural gas price forecasts from the AEO series to contemporaneous natural gas prices that can be locked in … through the forward market, with the goal of better understanding fuel price risk and the role that renewables play in …-fired generation that have been based on AEO natural gas price forecasts (rather than forward prices) have yielded results that are …

-term natural gas price forecasts from the AEO series to contemporaneous natural gas prices that can be locked in through the … forward market, with the goal of better understanding fuel price risk and the role that renewables play in mitigating such …, forward natural gas contracts (with prices that can be locked in--e.g., gas futures, swaps, and physical supply) have traded …

number of tax equity investors active in the renewable power market has declined precipitously, however, as a result of the …