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Electric-utility DSM programs: 1990 data and forecasts to 2000
Hirst, E. - 2008
In April 1992, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released data on 1989 and 1990 electric-utility demand-site management (DMS) programs. These data represent a census of US utility DSM programs, with reports of utility expenditures, energy savings, and load reductions caused by these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435834
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Electric-utility DSM programs: 1990 data and forecasts to 2000
Hirst, E. - 2008
In April 1992, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released data on 1989 and 1990 electric-utility demand-site management (DMS) programs. These data represent a census of US utility DSM programs, with reports of utility expenditures, energy savings, and load reductions caused by these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436148
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Statistical recoupling: A new way to break the link between electric-utility sales and revenues
Hirst, E. - 2008
In 1991, US electric utilities spent almost $1.8 billion on demand-side management (DSM) programs. These programs cut peak demands 5% and reduced electricity sales 1% that year. Utility projections suggest that these reductions will increase to 9% and 3%, respectively, by the year 2001. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435446
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Effects of utility DSM programs on risk
Hirst, E. - 2008
, performance and construction cost of existing power plants, cost and availability of purchased power, and the costs and … performance of new demand and supply resources. As utilities increasingly turn to demand-side management (DSM) programs to provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436372
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Regulatory and tax treatment of electric resources
Hadley, S.; Hirst, E. - 2008
Integrated resource Planning (IRP) focuses on providing customer energy-service needs at the lowest cost. This paper addresses the flip side of IRP, how shareholders -are when utilities build power plants with different capital and operating costs, buy power from others, or run demand-side...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436590
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Effects of utility DSM programs on risk
Hirst, E. - 2008
, performance and construction cost of existing power plants, cost and availability of purchased power, and the costs and … performance of new demand and supply resources. As utilities increasingly turn to demand-side management (DSM) programs to provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436628
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A good integrated resource plan: Guidelines for electric utilities and regulators
Hirst, E. - 2008
Integrated resource planning helps utilities and state regulatory commissions consistently assess a broad range of demand and supply resources to meet customer energy-service needs cost-effectively. Key characteristics of this planning approach include: explicit consideration and fair treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436983
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A good integrated resource plan: Guidelines for electric utilities and regulators
Hirst, E. - 2008
Integrated resource planning helps utilities and state regulatory commissions consistently assess a broad range of demand and supply resources to meet customer energy-service needs cost-effectively. Key characteristics of this planning approach include: explicit consideration and fair treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437177
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Factors that affect electric-utility stranded commitments
Hirst, E.; Hadley, S.; Baxter, L. - 2009
their expected market values under full competition. This report quantifies the sensitivity of stranded- commitment … estimates to the various factors that lead to these above- market-value estimates. The purpose of these sensitivity analyses is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436411
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Estimating potential stranded commitments for U.S. investor-owned electric utilities
Baxter, L.; Hirst, E. - 2009
made sense in an era of cost-of-service regulation may not be cost-effective in a competitive power market. Regulators … sales that is at risk with respect to competition, (2) the market price of electric generation, and (3) the number of years … during which the utility would lose money because of differences between its embedded cost of production and the market price. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436491