on debt financing. This study examines debt leveraging in private power projects. The policy debate on these issues has … typically been conducted at a high level of generality. Critics of the private power industry assert that high debt leveraging … shifted to the utility. Further, debt leveraging is claimed to be a threat to reliability. On the opposite side, it is argued …

reliance of these projects on debt financing. This study examines debt leveraging in private power projects. The policy debate … on these issues has typically been conducted at a high level of generality. Critics of the private power industry assert … reliability. On the opposite side, it is argued that debt leveraging imposes costs and obligations not home by utilities, and so …

reliance of these projects on debt financing. This study examines debt leveraging in private power projects. The policy debate … on these issues has typically been conducted at a high level of generality. Critics of the private power industry assert … reliability. On the opposite side, it is argued that debt leveraging imposes costs and obligations not home by utilities, and so …

Industry At A Glance'' section presents a profile of the electric power industry ownership and performance; a review of key … statistics for the year; and projections for various aspects of the electric power industry through 2010. Subsequent sections …

-geothermal institutional structure, project evaluation with uncertainty and the structure of incentives, the natural gas industry, the electric … utility industry, potential governmental participants in resource development, industrial users of thermal energy, current …

transitional management and risk-adjusted opportunity costs; (4) use higher marginal incentives rates than are currently found in …

that management has risk preferences incorporating a tradeoff between the mean and variance in the utility's net income …