, control, and transmit electricity in support of the basic services of generating capacity, energy supply, and power delivery … weather patterns. Generators also introduce unexpected fluctuations because they do not follow their generation schedules …

firm energy production, guarantees, ability to schedule maintenance or downtime, rights of refusal, power plant purchase … capacity and energy). Qualifying facilities (QF) include solar or geothermal electric units, hydropower, municipal solid waste … to provide ''demonstrated'' capacity. Legislation was also enacted which allows PURPA to work effectively. Initial laws …

. This second paper focuses on wind plant capacity credit as measured with power system reliability indices. Reliability …-based methods of measuring capacity credit are compared with wind plant capacity factor. The relationship between capacity …

forecasting accuracy on utility operation and production costs. Wind speed data from San Gorgonio Pass, California during 1979 are …

--i.e., whether a utility should sign a power purchase agreement (PPA) with a NUG, or develop and own the generation capacity itself … production incentive (REPI) available only to publicly owned utilities. Possible economic advantages to entering into a PPA with … a NUG include: (1) the availability of federal tax credits and accelerated depreciation schedules for certain forms of …

times associated with building new capacity, the lack of price response in the face of time-varying costs, the large … balance between investments in supply and demand-side technologies. DOE policies can promote implementation of key …

of key wind power installation-related trends: trends in wind capacity growth in the U.S., how that growth compares to … utilities, and the quantity of proposed wind capacity in various interconnection queues in the United States. Next, the report … costs, wind turbine transaction prices, project performance, and operations and maintenance expenses. Next, the report …

support of the CPUC, organized a team to study integration costs in the context of RPS implementation. The analysis team … include capacity credit, regulation impacts and costs, and preliminary load-following impacts via the supplemental energy …

established to account for inflation and current demand. The same distribution model and production schedule from the Global ‘99 …In 1999 a practical example illustrating the economical and reliable production of 99mTc from an accelerator was … developed. It included the realistic costs involved in establishing and operating the accelerator facility and the distribution …

implementation of its ambitious 20/20/20 targets, which aim (by 2020) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% (as compared to 1990 … Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Denmark). The rapid growth in installed wind power capacity is expected to continue in the … sources. In general, WPF can be used for a number of purposes, such as: generation and transmission maintenance planning …