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The Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Model (NGTDM) of the National Energy Modeling System is developed and …
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, distribution, consumption, and interstate pipeline activities. Producer-related activities and underground storage data are also … Commission (FERC), an independent commission within the DOE, which has jurisdiction primarily in the regulation of electric …
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environmental and energy economics. The common basis of the single articles is the analysis of regulation models. Theoretically, the … structured in three different parts. The first part includes an analysis of land use policy with a second best optimal regulation … model. The second part deals with conditions of efficient regulation on imperfect energy markets. The integration of …
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The aim of this paper is to study excess capacity in National Health System (NHS) hospitals, which have the characteristics of a bureaucracy, within a theoretically consistent framework. In this sense, we develop and estimate an empirical model which has not previously been applied to this...
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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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Dr. Mock began the session by paying tribute to Dr. Myron Dorfman, Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Texas, who had just passed away after a protracted illness. Dr. Dorfman, more than other any individual, was responsible for bringing the geopressured-geothermal...
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specific attributes for each type of fuel, such as cleanliness, security of supply, and governmental regulation. Geothermal …
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/bbl is supported by the literature. We conclude that a wide range of carbon regulation scenarios are possible, especially … that the stringency of the proposed carbon regulation scenario in the 2010 to 2025 period will lead to a particularly high …
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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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This study determines the extent to which it is possible to develop monetary estimates of the marginal social cost of fuels, using natural gas to test a methodology that could be applied to other fuels. This requires review of previous estimates of both market and nonmarket costs to the extent...
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