centralized system operations and regulated rates guaranteeing long-run cost recovery, to decentralized investment and operational …

, cost and resource size characteristics of renewable energy technologies. These characteristics are used to compute a … levelized cost to be competed against other similarly derived costs from other energy sources and technologies. The competition …

might being a retail electric customer in 5--10 years differ from now? Seizing opportunities to reduce cost of electric …

system operator under cost-based prices. This computer model demonstrated the likely complexity of markets for energy and …

) may experience through government-initiated deregulation of electricity generation. The potential for transition costs …-utility industry. Industry-wide transition cost estimates range from about $20 billion to $500 billion. Such disparate estimates raise … transition costs. The study has three objectives. First, we discuss the concept of transition cost. Second, we identify the major …

The issue of possibly unrecoverable cost incurred by a utility, or `stranded costs,` has emerged as a major obstacle to … idea of `stranded cost,` and more importantly arguments for its recovery, is a concept with little basis in economic theory … utilities minimize costs. A broader definition of efficiency and the likelihood of cost inefficiencies in the industry suggest …

always be the case. Determining the applicability and cost-effectiveness of alternative rate schedules is a complicated …

EMM allowed Canadian hydroelectric projects to be selected in the Electricity Capacity Planning (ECP) submodule on an …

This report addresses uncertainty in Integrated Resource Planning (IRP). IRP is a planning and decisionmaking process … have resources necessary to meet consumer demand at reasonable cost. IRP has been used to assist utilities in developing … decisions are so unique that statistically-based probabilities cannot even be calculated. The entire utility strategic planning …