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Board composition and corporate performance: How the Australian experience informs contrasting theories of corporate governance
Kiel, Geoffrey C.; Nicholson, Gavin J. - 2003
In many respects, Australian boards more closely approach normative best practice guidelines for corporate governance than boards in other Western countries. Do Australian firms then demonstrate a board demographic-organisational performance link that has not been found in other economies? We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447876
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Design of Studies for Development of BPA Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Accounting Policy Phase II, Volume II, 1985-1988 Technical Report.
Kneese, Allen V. - 2008
; Part II, Models for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; and Part III, Ocean Fisheries Harvest Management. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435604
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A prefeasibility study of energy resource options in Hainan, China
Hill, L.J.; Russell, M.; Barron, W.F.; LaRocco, P.; Shen, Z. - 2008
This study identifies a strategy that (1) provides future energy services for Hainan in the least environmentally degrading way, (2) eliminates the need to build significant amounts of new fossil-fueled, electric generating capacity, saving capital to invest in other development projects, (3)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435877
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Electricity pricing as a demand-side management strategy: Western lessons for developing countries
Hill, L.J. - 2008
constructing new generating plants but also by influencing electricity demand. This demand-side management (DSM) process requires … expansion to meet current and future electric power demand. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435879
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Optional time-of-use prices for electricity: Analysis of PG E's experimental TOU rates
Train, K.; Mehrez, G. - 2008
We examine customers' time-of-use (TOU) demand for electricity and their choice between standard and TOU rate schedules. We specify an econometric model in which the customer's demand curves determine the customer's choice of rate schedule. We estimate the model on data from Pacific Gas Electric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436384
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1991 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study.
United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2008
This study establishes the Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA) planning basis for supplying electricity to BPA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436418
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Analysis of PG E's residential end-use metered data to improve electricity demand forecasts
Eto, J.H.; Moezzi, M.M. - 2008
It is generally acknowledged that improvements to end-use load shape and peak demand forecasts for electricity are limited primarily by the absence of reliable end-use data. In this report we analyze recent end-use metered data collected by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company from more than 700...
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Profits and progress through least-cost planning
Moskovitz, D. - 2008
In the broadest sense, this paper discusses issues relating to the earnings implications which flow from the pursuit of least-cost plans. More narrowly, however, the issues, discussion, and conclusions apply with equal force whenever a utility implements cost-effective demand-side measures,...
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Western Area Power Administration customer database
Sandahl, L.J.; Lee, A.D.; Wright, G.A.; Durfee, D.L. - 2008
with analyses conducted as part of the Western Area Power Administration Energy Planning and Management Program … to identify sources and costs of auxiliary power. Secondary information sources were used predominantly to compile one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436807
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Electricity pricing in Korea: A study of pricing initiatives as positive contributors to the development process
Hill, L.J. - 2008
of pricing-related initiatives to development of the power sector. Besides setting prices at a level sufficient to … provide resources for the power sector, a number of initiatives designed to reduce the cost of electricity supply were … implemented. These pricing-related initiatives were a significant source of resources for the power sector during the 1962 …
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