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The likely impacts of two proposed federal incentives for accelerating the development of geothermal resources for electric power production are evaluated. The incentives are: an additional 20% investment tax credit applicable to both well field capital and power plant capital; and a federal...
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geothermal energy. GEOCOST combines both technical and economic factors into one systematic cost accounting framework. The … plant. The costs from the reservoir model become the energy supply costs to the power plant. The combined reservoir and … power plant models represent the complete energy production system. (LBS) …
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This is the users guide for the Geothermal Loan Guaranty Cash Flow Model (GCFM). GCFM is a Fortran code which designs and costs geothermal fields and electric power plants. It contains a financial analysis module which performs life cycle costing analysis taking into account various types of...
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impact on the financial value of energy production. This study estimates the financial costs of experimental releases …
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The effects of various financial incentives on potential developers of geothermal electric energy are studied and the … usefulness of additional investment tax credits was studied as a method for encouraging utilities to invest in geothermal energy … geothermal energy under a variety of ownerships with several assumptions about financial incentives. (MHR) …
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This study investigates the economic effects of external oil and food price shocks in thecontext of selected Asia and … Pacific countries including Australia, New Zealand, SouthKorea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Thailand. The study is …
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This study identifies a strategy that (1) provides future energy services for Hainan in the least environmentally … industry. The focus of this strategy is to adapt proven policies and techniques for producing and using energy more efficiently … without lessening the ability of consumers, industry, and the government to obtain the energy services that higher use of fuel …
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Climate change policy is likely on the horizon in the United States. A cap and trade program for CO2 will result in increased expenses for major emitting firms throughout the economy. Since the electric power sector emits 41% of the nations CO2 emissions, such a policy will have a significant...
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technology regime based on renewable energy sources. Two bodies of research, the quasi-evolutionary (QE) model and the multi …
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Future energy demand will be affected by changes in prices and income, but also by other factors, like temperature … annual regional demand for energy goods. Combining estimates of temperature elasticities with scenarios of future climate … change, it is possible to assess variations in energy demand induced (directly) by the global warming. We use this …
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