-price natural gas-fired electricity generation, and replacing that generation with fixed-price renewable electricity supply. In … price reductions are, in turn, expected to reduce electricity prices and--more importantly--directly reduce consumer natural …

. Furthermore, given differences in incentive types and levels across states, as well as variations in retail electricity rates and … cost of generating a kWh of electricity over the lifetime of the system, and is calculated assuming a cash purchase for the …

Markets for renewable electricity have grown significantly in recent years, motivated in part by federal tax incentives … and in part by state renewables portfolio standards and renewable energy funds. State renewables portfolio standards, for …. In aggregate, these utilities supply approximately half of all electricity demand in the western United States. In …

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 …

one potential benefit: displacement of gas-fired electricity generation, which reduces natural gas demand and thus puts …

assess the levelized cost of electricity under four supply options: (1) public utility ownership of new geothermal capacity … California. Our analysis is not intended to provide precise estimates of the levelized cost of electricity from wind projects and … on a comparison of the levelized cost of electricity. Thus, in addition to quantitative analysis, we also include a …

State renewables portfolio standards (RPS) have emerged as one of the most important policy drivers of renewable energy … percent of the state RPS cost studies project retail electricity rate increases of no greater than one percent. Nonetheless …

and discuss what are arguably the two most important types of state policies for supporting electricity generation from … geothermal and other forms of renewable energy: renewables portfolio standards and utility integrated resource planning … utilities and other retail electricity suppliers to produce or purchase a minimum quantity or percentage of their generation …

detail: by displacing gas-fired electricity generation, RE reduces natural gas demand and thus puts downward pressure on gas …

approximately half of all electricity demand in the western United States. Our purpose is twofold: (1) to highlight the growing …