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Whole life cost methods for computer systems
Bradley, Malcolm - 1998
whole life cost and quality isconsidered and why whole life cost is a useful measure of quality. This is examined …
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Installation and Commissioning Automated Demand Response Systems
Global Energy Partners; Pacific Gas and Electric Company; … - 2008
programs, as is the lack of automation of DR systems. Most DR activities are manual and require people to first receive … notifications, and then act on the information to execute DR strategies. Levels of automation in DR can be defined as follows … demand response automation communications technologies known as Automated Demand Response (Auto-DR). In 2007, LBNL worked …
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Technology Advancements to Support Growth in Geothermal Power Sales in a Dynamic Utility Market
Mock, John E. - 2006
We are assembled today to discuss the opportunities and challenges for expanding the sales of geothermally-generated electric power in a competitive utility market. First, however, I would like to note that growth in geothermal sales might not be a germane topic were it not for the early...
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Options in the Eleventh Year for Interim Standard Offer Number Four Contracts
Hinrichs, Thomas C. - 2006
The Interim Standard Offer Number Four Contracts (ISM), under which most of the geothermal industry is selling power (outside of The Geysers), has an initial ten year period of known fixed energy payments. In the eleventh year, the price goes to the Avoided Cost of the buying utility. The...
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Reservoir Technology
Renner, J.L. - 2006
The reservoir technology program supports the utilization of geothermal resources through development and verification of new earth science technologies for: exploration, fluid production and injection; and prediction of reservoir lifetimes. A two-fold strategy of conducting DOE-sponsored...
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Technology Transfer, Reaching the Market for Geopressured-Geothermal Resources
Wys, J. Negus-de - 2006
companies. Why? Because quality is insured, major filtering has already taken place, and the integrity of the showcase is … established. Thus, the focused strategy is reduced to a target of numbers (general public/minors/independents) versus quality …
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NGA Industry Critique of the Exploration Component
Iovanetti, J.L. - 2006
The author critiques the Exploration component of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Geothermal Program Review X. The comments focus principally on the hydrothermal portion of the DOE program, but he also makes some commentary on the Long Valley Exploratory Well and Geopressured-Geothermal...
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Geothermal Energy Market Study on the Atlantic Coastal Plain. A Review of Recent Energy Price Projections for Traditional Space Heating Fuel 1985-2000
Weissbrod, Richard; Barron, William - 2007
In order to develop an initial estimate of the potential competitiveness of low temperature (45 degrees C to 100 degrees C) geothermal resources on the Eastern Coastal Plain, the Center for Metropolitant Planning and Research of The Johns Hopkins University reviewed and compared available energy...
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HOW TO DEAL WITH WASTE ACCEPTANCE UNCERTAINTY USING THE WASTE ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA FORECASTING AND ANALYSIS CAPABILITY SYSTEM (WACFACS)
Redus, K. S.; Hampshire, G. J.; Patterson, J. E.; … - 2009
The Waste Acceptance Criteria Forecasting and Analysis Capability System (WACFACS) is used to plan for, evaluate, and control the supply of approximately 1.8 million yd3 of low-level radioactive, TSCA, and RCRA hazardous wastes from over 60 environmental restoration projects between FY02 through...
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The potential impact of renewable energy deployment on natural gas prices in New England
Wiser, Ryan; Bolinger, Mark - 2008
Concerns about the price and supply of natural gas have deepened in recent years both nationally and in New England. Renewable energy (RE) technologies can directly hedge natural gas price risk by reducing the need to purchase variable-price natural gas-fired electricity generation, and...
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