energy prices, we find electricity prices––relative to oil and gas––to be more important in the manufacturing process …, with a one standard deviation reduction in electricity prices leading to a 2.8 percent increase in manufacturing output …. Our estimated elasticities together with plausible reductions in electricity tariffs derived from the energy reform, could …

This report provides a baseline assessment of the current state of energy efficiency-related education and training … programs and analyzes training and education needs to support expected growth in the energy efficiency services workforce. In … the last year, there has been a significant increase in funding for 'green job' training and workforce development …

used to judge how effectively RTP actually induces DR, particularly in the context of restructured electricity markets ….g. at different nominal prices) and to determine the distribution of individual customers' response. …

Across the United States, as competition in the supply and delivery of electricity has been introduced, states have …-bypassable charge to electricity customers (usually applied on a cents/kWh basis) used to collect funds for public purpose programs … failures are unavoidable. Also evident is that states are taking very different approaches to the distribution of these funds …

electricity in the central and upper Midwestern portion of the United States. Region-wide, centralized, security-constrained, bid … prices, which in turn reveals the location of congestion within MISO's footprint, as well as the distribution of congestion …

Information on the value of reliable electricity service can be used to assess the economic efficiency of investments … in generation, transmission and distribution systems, to strategically target investments to customer segments that … reliability for electricity customers in the US. These estimates were obtained by analyzing the results from 28 customer value of …

-owned utilities (IOUs) and nonutility electricity generators (NUGs) when making decisions on technologies for new generating plants … distribution of electric power was not studied. …

resources and customer responses. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed the Oak Ridge Competitive Electricity … with restructuring. An unchanging transmission and distribution (T&D) component is added to both types of generation prices …

. Reductions in the energy bill, and therefore DG attractiveness, depend on the electricity tariff structure; a system created … with similar consumption patterns. Recently, electric utilities began to question the equity of this electricity pricing … transmission and distribution costs - traditionally recovered through a volumetric($/kWh) mechanism - under existing tariff …

energy resources (DER) to provide reliable electricity for Federal facilities. These projects also show how renewable DER … Distribution Center in Inglewood, California. This system is expected to shave 10% off the facility's 1.2-megawatt peak power …