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Allocation of CO2 Emissions Allowances in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program

Burtraw, Dallas; Palmer, Karen L.; Kahn, Danny - 2005

current emitters on the basis of a historic measure of electricity generation in an approach known as grandfathering. Recent … some performance metric in a recent year (the share of electricity generation or something else) and auctioning allowances … such as electricity price, the mix of generation technologies, and the emissions of conventional pollutants inside and …

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CO2 Allowance Allocation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the Effect on Electricity Investors

Burtraw, Dallas; Kahn, Danny; Palmer, Karen L. - 2005

regional, mandatory, market-based cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity sector …. The initiative is expected to lead to an increase in the price of electricity in the RGGI region and beyond. The … implications of these changes for the value of electricity-generating assets and the market value of the firms that own them …

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State Policies Provide Critical Support for Renewable Electricity

Barbose, Galen; Wiser, Ryan; Bolinger, Mark - 2009

and discuss what are arguably the two most important types of state policies for supporting electricity generation from … utilities and other retail electricity suppliers to produce or purchase a minimum quantity or percentage of their generation …), covering almost 80% of retail electricity sales in the region. Although many of these state policies have only recently been …

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I think that I shall never see {hor_ellipsis} a lovely forestry policy: Land use programs for conservation of forests

Rayner, S.F.; Richards, K.R. - 2008

Forestry programs are frequently invoked as having potential for mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Most studies have attempted to quantify the potential impact of forest programs on carbon uptake and the potential costs of such programs. In this paper, we will attempt instead to focus on...

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Socio-Technical Transition as a Co-Evolutionary Process: Innovation and the Role of Niche Markets in the Transition to Motor Vehicles

Birky, Alicia Kim - 2008

Significant reductions in greenhouse emissions from personal transportation will require a transition to an alternative technology regime based on renewable energy sources. Two bodies of research, the quasi-evolutionary (QE) model and the multi-level perspective (MLP) assert that processes...

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Green Power Marketing in the United States: A Status Report (2008 Data)

Bird, L.; Kreycik, C.; Friedman, B. - 2009

Voluntary consumer decisions to buy electricity supplied from renewable energy sources represent a powerful market … and from renewable energy marketers operating in states that have introduced competition into their retail electricity … markets or offering renewable energy certificates (RECs) online. Today, more than half of all U.S. electricity customers have …

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Wind power forecasting : state-of-the-art 2009.

Monteiro, C.; Bessa, R.; Miranda, V.; Botterud, A.; Wang, J. - Decision and Information Sciences - 2009

model-based scenario, in which wind energy provides 20% of the U.S. electricity demand in 2030. The report discusses a set … already have a high penetration of wind power (i.e., in the range of 7 to 20% of electricity consumption in countries such as … United States as well as in Europe. A large-scale introduction of wind power causes a number of challenges for electricity …

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