Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid … extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these constraints by analyzing poor … households' willingness-to-pay for different types of electricity access, including lower cost off-grid technologies. The …

) are two electricity intensive technology trends in the Paper and Steel industries, respectively. This paper presents the … estimates of the impact of TMP and EAF on electricity intensities, improves the estimates of the other price coefficients, and … yields a more believable long run electricity forecast. 6 refs., 1 fig. …

event the power plant is unable to economically produce electricity due to depletion, scaling or other problems. Such an …

Utilities first began offering consumers a choice of purchasing electricity generated from renewable energy sources in … than 500 utilities in regulated electricity markets--or about 16% of all utilities nationally--offer their customers green … customers spanning 34 states have the ability to purchase renewable energy to meet some portion or all of their electricity …

Voluntary consumer decisions to purchase electricity supplied from renewable energy sources represent a powerful market … and in states that have introduced competition into their retail electricity markets. Today, more than 50% of all U ….S. consumers have an option to purchase some type of green power product from a retail electricity provider. This report provides …

today, the PV industry will be able to penetrate a larger fraction of the electricity market if PV systems are also used in … larger installations, such as utility-owned systems, PV parks, and customer-owned systems. Because retail electricity costs … more than wholesale electricity, it is often assumed that PV will address, with incentives, the retail market long before …

petroleum, natural gas, and electricity, projected trends in the real prices for these fuels were examined. The spread in the … energy possesses several important attributes in common with electricity (e.g., ease of maintenance and perceived security of … the next few decades, while electricity prices are projected to be more stable. Electricity prices will, however, remain …

peak demands 5% and reduced electricity sales 1% that year. Utility projections suggest that these reductions will increase … recoupling uses statistical models, based on historical data, that explain retail electricity sales as functions of the number of … utility customers, winter and summer weather, the condition of the local economy, electricity price, and perhaps a few other …

-price natural gas-fired electricity generation, and replacing that generation with fixed-price renewable electricity supply. In … price reductions are, in turn, expected to reduce electricity prices and--more importantly--directly reduce consumer natural …