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

electricity suppliers (also called load-serving entities, or LSEs) to procure a certain minimum quantity of eligible renewable … energy. An RPS establishes numeric targets for renewable energy supply, applies those targets to retail electricity suppliers …

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

-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 …. 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 …

-reaching -- risk currently facing the electricity industry is the uncertain cost of future carbon dioxide (CO2) regulations …-owned utilities in the Western U.S. Together, these utilities account for approximately 60percent of retail electricity sales in the …

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 …

electricity prices. In this light, the dramatic increase in natural gas prices since the 1990s should be a cause for ratepayer … prices (and by extension future electricity prices) may end up markedly different than expected. Second, this displacement … electricity. Though we do not seek to judge whether these two specific benefits outweigh any incremental cost of renewable energy …