. In other words, a life-cycle cost model must be developed to simulate the energy-related building-design decisions that … design energy budget to account for the external costs associated with that energy consumption. One such factor, RIF …

customer classes? Second, what types of tariff design is most appropriate, given prevailing policy objectives, wholesale market …

-steel and inflated-bubble heliostat design concepts, developed by MDAC and GE, respectively, are described; a costing scenario …

identify key trends related to: utilities motivations for implementing RTP, evolution of RTP tariff design, program …

essential, and need to be included in the policy instrument design. Increased efforts are needed to better understand the …

equally vulnerable. Factors such as local generation costs, transmission constraints, market concentration, and market design …

smoother, plant staff and system designers would have a better set of tools to help in the design and specification of I and C …

The design or optimization of engineering systems is generally based on several assumptions related to the loading … assumptions to the optimum design or the design finally adopted is generally unknown particularly in large, complex systems. A … performance function(s) of interest are also random and optimization of the system with respect to the design variables has to be …

programs, (3) Demand response at retail through pricing, rate design, and advanced metering, and (4) End-use energy efficiency …

This paper focuses on a process to design and build a web-based system to assist staff in day-to-day management and … approach presented here, but the design itself pertains to a particular set of issues in a unique context. Each user must apply … the approach to identify their objectives and design a site to meet them. The main question that the Energy Efficiency …