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impacts of energy efficiency increases over a sample population of consumers to quantify the proportion of households having … derive the incremental change in retail prices associated with increased manufacturing costs for improving energy efficiency. …
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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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When making an important decision, program managers must evaluate the risk of each alternative and weigh the trade-offs between one type of risk and another. Program managers are familiar with the concepts of risk analysis and assessment in such areas as human factors, security, and accident...
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efficiency grades for the mandatory energy information label. In the Chinese standards process, the efficiency grades for the … support of METI/IEEJ, collaborated with CNIS to develop the efficiency grades, providing technical input to the process … of the label on China's market, CLASP further provided assistance to CNIS to collect data on both the efficiency …
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commercialbuildings. The tariff data come from a survey of 90 utilities and 250tariffs for non-residential customers collected in 2004 as …
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The minimum energy efficiency standards program for household appliances in China was initiated in 1989. Since 1996 … efficiency requirements for implementation within 6 months of a standard's approval. Since 2003, China has adopted a new approach … a second tier at a more aggressive level of energy efficiency for implementation three to five years later. The second …
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together with utilities and grid operators to facilitate the further deployment of DR programs which can provide benefits in … the form of decreased grid congestion, improved system reliability, market efficiency, price stabilization, hedging …
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procedures, efficiency standards, and labeling programs. In the long run, R&D is probably the most important single leverage …
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market and develop projects among customers with few constraints on acceptable end use efficiency technologies. In contrast …
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As government funding grows scarce, competition between the national laboratories is increasing dramatically. In this era of tougher competition, there is no for resistance to change. There must instead be a uniform commitment to improving the overall quality of our products (research and...
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