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heightened natural gas and oil prices, and (3) a Carbon Cap-and-Trade Scenario. The immediate goal is to use these scenarios to … considered by EERE and FE staff--carbon cap-and-trade and high fuel prices--are compared to other scenarios used by energy … the natural gas prices through 2025 proposed in the FE-EERE Scenarios Working Group's High Fuel Price Scenario appear to …
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and supply of natural gas suggest that policymakers may want to pursue actions that reduce the strain of high prices on …Concerns about the price and supply of natural gas have deepened in recent years both nationally and in New England …-price natural gas-fired electricity generation, and replacing that generation with fixed-price renewable electricity supply. In …
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In the United States, there has been substantial recent growth in wind energy generating capacity, with growth averaging 24 percent annually during the past five years. About 1,700 MW of wind energy capacity was installed in 2001, while another 410 MW became operational in 2002. This year (2003)...
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Markets for renewable electricity have grown significantly in recent years, motivated in part by federal tax incentives … additions - primarily coming from wind power - are motivated by the improved economics of wind power, a growing acceptance of …. In aggregate, these utilities supply approximately half of all electricity demand in the western United States. In …
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-term natural gas price forecasts from the AEO series to contemporaneous natural gas prices that can be locked in through the … (i.e., the risk that natural gas prices might differ over the life of a gas-fired generation asset from what was expected … prices have increased); and (3) natural gas-fired generators often set the market clearing price in competitive wholesale …
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case long-term natural gas price forecasts from the AEO series to contemporaneous natural gas prices that can be locked in … four years, forward natural gas contracts (e.g., gas futures, swaps, and physical supply) have traded at a premium relative …-fired generation that have been based on AEO natural gas price forecasts (rather than forward prices) have yielded results that are …
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Heightened natural gas prices have emerged as a key energy-policy challenge for at least the early part of the 21st … century. With the recent run-up in gas prices and the expected continuation of volatile and high prices in the near future, a … downward pressure on gas prices. Many recent modeling studies of increased RE and EE deployment have demonstrated that this …
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resources in both cases would be to use forward natural gas price data--i.e. prices that can be locked in to create price … production tax credit and current high gas prices), a margin of 0.3-0.6 cents/kWh may in some cases be enough to sway resource …
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fossil fuel prices, environmental concerns, and policy support at the state and federal levels. In this article, we review … supply from renewable resources. RPS purchase obligations generally increase over time, and retail suppliers typically must … renewables, and that they do so on an 'equivalent' or 'comparable' basis to conventional supply-side generation options. Many …
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Heightened natural gas prices have emerged as a key energy-policy challenge for at least the early part of the 21st … century. With the recent run-up in gas prices and the expected continuation of volatile and high prices in the near future, a … prices. Many recent modeling studies of increased RE deployment have demonstrated that this ''secondary'' effect of lowering …
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