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 …

substantial volatility in wholesale market prices, significant financial distress among major industry organizations, and …

California. The analysis is based on 15-minute interval building load and PV production data for 24 commercial PV installations … in California, spanning a diverse set of building load shapes and geographic locations. We derive the annual bill savings … utilities in California. We identify and explain variation in the value of bill savings attributable to differences in the …

The last two decades have seen a dramatic increase in the market share of independent, non-utility generators (NUGs … NUG-owned renewable energy, and (2) the California state production incentives available to NUGs but not utilities. This … geothermal power--in California. To examine the economic aspects of this decision, we modified and updated a 20-year financial …

purchasers of PV systems, as well as for administrators of state/utility PV programs. The market for grid-connected photovoltaics … California, New Jersey, and many other states. The recent announcement of a new 11-year, $3.2 billion PV program in California …

less widely recognized driver for renewable energy market growth is poised to also play an important role in the coming …&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) - treat renewable energy in their recent resource plans …

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 …

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 …

of annual market share for three years running (2005-2007). The rapidly growing market for wind has been a double … weakness in the U.S. dollar, has put upward pressure on wind turbine costs, and ultimately, wind power prices. Two mitigating …--have helped to relieve some of the upward pressure on wind power prices over the last few years. Because neither of these two …