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Research and development towards green technologies under technical and policy uncertainty

Valeria Jana Schwanitz - 2010

Green technological progress bears a strong potential to alleviate climate change, but its utilization is contingent on factors which are by nature impossible to anticipate or predict. Developing stochastic optimisation models, we explore how the decision to invest in research and development...

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Der Einfluss von Steuern auf Investitions- und Arbeitsangebotsentscheidungen - Experimentelle Analysen zur Wahrnehmung der Steuerbelastung

Fochmann, Martin - 2011

Eine Vielzahl von Ökonomen untersucht mit Hilfe verschiedener theoretischer Modelle, inwiefern Steuern Einfluss auf wirtschaftliche Entscheidungen haben. Eine grundlegende Annahme in diesen Modellen ist dabei die Abwesenheit von Fehlwahrnehmungen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, systematische...

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ZUM DESINVESTITIONSVERHALTEN LANDWIRTSCHAFTLICHER UNTERNEHMER: ERGEBNISSE EINER EXPERIMENTELLEN UNTERSUCHUNG

Maart, Syster Christin; Musshoff, Oliver; Odening, Martin; … - 2010

Bedeutungzu. In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, inwiefern das klassische Kapitalwertkriteriumund der Realoptionsansatz einen … Investitionstheorieund gemäß dem Realoptionsansatz bestimmt wurden. Bei der Bestimmung der normativenBenchmarks wird die individuelle … Risikoeinstellung der Teilnehmer berücksichtigt. DieErgebnisse zeigen, dass der Realoptionsansatz besser als das Kapitalwertkriterium …

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The linkage between energy consumption and income in six emerging economies of Asia

School of Economics and Finance

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Statistical recoupling: A new way to break the link between electric-utility sales and revenues

Hirst, E. - 2008

In 1991, US electric utilities spent almost $1.8 billion on demand-side management (DSM) programs. These programs cut peak demands 5% and reduced electricity sales 1% that year. Utility projections suggest that these reductions will increase to 9% and 3%, respectively, by the year 2001. However,...

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Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport utilities metering, Phase 1

Carroll, D.M. - 2008

Pacific Northwest Laboratory developed this report for the US Navy's Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, Rhode Island (NUWC). The purpose of the report was to review options for metering electricity and steam used in the NUWC compound, and to make recommendations to NUWC for...

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Evaluation of resource impact factors versus social cost estimates in determining building energy performance standard levels

Nieves, L.A.; Nesse, R.J.; Adams, R.C.; McDonald, C.L. - 2011

In order to increase the welfare of society through the implementation of a building energy-performance standard, a method is required by which the least-cost means of obtaining the desired space conditioning of a building can be estimated. In other words, a life-cycle cost model must be...

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Program evaluation: Weatherization Residential Assistance Partnership (WRAP) Program

2008

The Connecticut low income weatherization program was developed in response to a 1987 rate docket order from the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) to Connecticut Light Power Co., an operating subsidiary of Northeast Utilities (NU). (Throughout this report, NU is referred to...

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Balancing the scales: Data on electricity supply and demand resources

Hirst, E. - 2008

In the energy arena, the greatest data needs concern the costs and performance of demand-side management (DSM) programs, which are likely to grow in size and importance. It is difficult to assess the contributions that utility DSM programs could make to resolving national energy problems because...

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Proposed Revenues, Financial Strategy, and Program Costs for FY 1992 and 1993 : Technical Appendix, BPA Programs in Perspective.

United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2009

Programs in Perspective is the Bonneville Power Administration's public involvement process (PIP) for engaging customers and other stakeholders in a regional dialog to set strategic direction and broad program plans for BPA effort. This planning leads into a biennial rate setting cycle and...

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