projected to come on-line in the US up to 2025, increasing the nationwide market share of gas-fired generation from 18% in 2002 …. Alternatively, if the forecasts are at risk of being biased or out of tune with the market, then one certainly would not want to use … resources in both cases would be to use forward natural gas price data--i.e. prices that can be locked in to create price …

U.S. wind power market, with a particular focus on 2008. As with previous editions, this report begins with an overview … covers an array of wind industry trends, including developments in turbine manufacturer market share, manufacturing and … performance trends. In so doing, it reviews the price of wind power in the United States, and how those prices compare to the cost …

Against the backdrop of increasingly volatile natural gas prices, renewable energy resources, which by their nature are … no natural gas fuel price risk, and if the market values that attribute, then the most appropriate comparison is to the …-term natural gas forward prices that can actually be locked in. This practice raises the critical question of how these two price …

in turn place downward pressure on gas prices. A number of recent modeling studies include an evaluation of this effect … sizable reductions. Reductions in wellhead prices will reduce wholesale and retail electricity rates, and will also reduce … impact of RE and EE on natural gas prices within the bounds of current knowledge, but that current knowledge of how to …

fossil fuel prices, environmental concerns, and policy support at the state and federal levels. In this article, we review …), covering almost 80% of retail electricity sales in the region. Although many of these state policies have only recently been … rising and volatile fuel prices. Of particular importance for supporting renewable energy is the increasingly common …

renewable portfolio standards (RPS), federal and state financial incentives, and integrated resource planning; as well as market … drivers, such as consumer demand for green power, natural gas price volatility, and wholesale market rules. …

less widely recognized driver for renewable energy market growth is poised to also play an important role in the coming …

prices have increased); and (3) natural gas-fired generators often set the market clearing price in competitive wholesale …-term natural gas price forecasts from the AEO series to contemporaneous natural gas prices that can be locked in through the … forward market, with the goal of better understanding fuel price risk and the role that renewables can play in mitigating such …

case long-term natural gas price forecasts from the AEO series to contemporaneous natural gas prices that can be locked in … through the forward market, with the goal of better understanding fuel price risk and the role that renewables play in …-fired generation that have been based on AEO natural gas price forecasts (rather than forward prices) have yielded results that are …

-term natural gas price forecasts from the AEO series to contemporaneous natural gas prices that can be locked in through the … forward market, with the goal of better understanding fuel price risk and the role that renewables play in mitigating such … natural gas contracts (with prices that can be locked in--e.g., gas futures, swaps, and physical supply) have traded at a …