Electricity Capacity Planning (ECP) Submodule, the Electricity Fuel Dispatch (EFD) Submodule, the Electricity Finance and Pricing … minimum level of generation using renewable technologies. Producers with insufficient renewable generating capacity can either … representation of a RPS involves revisions to the ECP, EFD, and the EFP. The ECP projects capacity additions required to meet the …

generating capacity added in the U.S. between 1999 and 2005 (EIA 2006b), bringing the nationwide market share of gas … to fuel costs--i.e., natural gas prices. For example, at current spot prices of around $7/MMBtu, fuel costs account for …-clearing price for all generators in a competitive wholesale market, there is a direct link between natural gas prices and wholesale …

decisionmaking and to customer access to true spot market prices. This transformation will revolutionize the technical, procedural …

variety of unsettling forces. Falling oil prices, economic upswings, currency devaluations, increasingly rigorous …

known to be of concern to utilities and other power producers. These risks include uncertainty in fuel prices, demand …

installations are expected to increase by 1,850 megawatts (MW), resulting in a total installed capacity of about 4,400 MW. The …

functionally divided into generation, transmission, and distribution activities, all of their gas-fired generating capacity was … lower prices, the enabling legislation mandated a 10% rate cut for all customers, which was implemented in a simplistic way … import electricity, numerous plant outages, and exercise of market power by generators drove up wholesale electricity prices …