) distribute load management incentives proportional to customer contribution. These deficiencies prevent the customer feedback … collect or properly price electricity usage handicaps the success of almost all efficiency and demand response options …

the prices of natural gas and electricity actually paid at the sites during the periods addressed by the annual reports … projects have been conservative. For electricity, it was possible to compare contract prices with the actual (estimated …) marginal prices of electricity in 20 projects. In 14 of these projects, the overall contract electricity price was found to be …

economic benefits only for households with high clothes dryer usage or for households with high electricity prices and … resistance clothes dryers, and therefore have the potential to save substantial amounts of electricity. While not currently …

paper presents the results of an evaluation of the Geothermal Municipal Utility Workshops that presented information on … qualitatively assess the information needs of municipal utilities relative to geothermal energy and get feedback for future … know whether it is better to own a project or to purchase geothermal electricity from another nonutility owner. California …

future. The future in the Carbon Cap Scenario has higher electricity prices, reduced driving, more renewable capacity, and …For at least the last decade, evaluation of the benefits of research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RD3 … their RD3 benefits evaluation. In order to begin scoping out the uncertainty in these deterministic forecasts, EE and FE …

evaluation of how Illinois might fare under a restructured electricity market. The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC … surrounding region would be able to support a competitive electricity market, would allow for effective competition to keep prices … analysis becomes: 'Can a company, acting on its own, raise electricity prices and increase its profits?' It should be noted …

, such as the United States, with a diverse set of resources, electricity prices, and other variables. In this presentation …"Break-even cost" for photovoltaic (PV) technology is defined as the point where the cost of PV-generated electricity … equals the cost of electricity purchased from the grid. Break-even cost is expressed in $/W of an installed system. Achieving …

activities to reduce or shift electricity use to improve the electric grid reliability and manage electricity costs. Fully … external communications signal. We refer to this as Auto-DR. The evaluation of the control and communications must be properly …

in turn place downward pressure on gas prices. A number of recent modeling studies include an evaluation of this effect … sizable reductions. Reductions in wellhead prices will reduce wholesale and retail electricity rates, and will also reduce … impact of RE and EE on natural gas prices within the bounds of current knowledge, but that current knowledge of how to …

Demand response (DR) is increasingly recognized as an essential ingredient to well-functioning electricity markets. DR … 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 …