The scope of the Functional Management Assessment of the CFO included a review of the CFO Organizational Structure …, relocation, special disbursements, IPO, legal, risk management, and freight). NIF financial services have not been integrated … measures to minimize financial risk and ensure on-going A-123 compliance. (2) Project Costing Implementation (PCI) delay …

recommendations to aid in making decisions for development of instrumentation for future repository work. The main conclusions of the … working group meeting were as follows: (1) monitoring of geotechnical parameters in nuclear waste repositories will be … necessary to meet licensing requirements; (2) currently available instruments are underdeveloped for this monitoring; (3 …

resource planning initiatives, ongoing efforts to improve efficiency and reliability in competitive electricity markets, and …Economists have advocated for real-time pricing (RTP) of electricity on the basis of the gains in economic efficiency … implementation of default service in states with retail choice. Most experience with RTP has been as an optional service, that is, a …

benefits (and costs) resulting from the impacts of RTOs on reliability management, generation and transmission investment and … crafting more comprehensive assessments of these impacts based on actual performance, including impacts on reliability … between 2002 and 2004 and makes recommendations to improve the documentation of data and methods and the presentation of …

this report are: definition of supplementation, project diversity, objectives and performance standards, uncertainties and …, Background, Description, Performance Measures, Uncertainty and Theory; Part 2, Theoretical Framework and Models; Part 3, Planning … Guidelines; and Part 4, Regional Coordination of Research and Monitoring. Supplementation is expected to be a major contributor …

), participant incentive structures, and monitoring and verification (M&V) protocols. This report describes the results of this … programs are increasingly used by utilities for economic in addition to reliability purposes, with over two-thirds (68percent … suggests that DR resources can help improve the efficiency of MISO wholesale markets. - Most legacy DR programs offered a …

Some stakeholders continue to voice concerns about the performance of customer-sited photovoltaic (PV) systems … much remains to be understood about the extent and specific causes of poor PV system performance, several studies of the … larger programs and markets have shed some light on the issue. An evaluation of the California Energy Commission (CEC …

the form of decreased grid congestion, improved system reliability, market efficiency, price stabilization, hedging … barriers to DR; and presents lessons learned and recommendations for states/provinces. …

improved capability and performance rather than vendor lock-in. Some of these standards appear to be gaining traction in the … standards in the commercial arena. The implementation of OGC standards by the largest GIS vendor (ESRI) was reviewed. At present …

factors that affect performance, and describe key implementation details. Based on this review, we then offer recommendations …-funded incentive programs has heightened concerns about the long-term performance of these systems. Given the barriers that customers … performance. To provide a point of reference for assessing the current state of the art, and to inform program design efforts …