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U.S. Biodiesel Development: New Markets for Conventional and Genetically Modified Agricultural Products

Duffield, James A.; Shapouri, Hosein; Graboski, Michael S. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1998

has captured increasing attention. Substituting petroleum diesel with biodiesel may reduce air emissions, increase the … biodiesel, but high production costs and competing uses for biodiesel feedstocks will likely prevent mass adoption of biodiesel … fuel. Higher-priced niche markets could develop for biodiesels as a result of environmental regulations. Biodiesel has many …

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Allocating shadow prices in a multiobjective chance constrained model for biodiesel blending

Caldeira, C.; Dias, L.; Freire, F.; Kremmydas, D.; … - Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural … - 2014

Biodiesel production sustainability relates to decision making on blending involving economic and environmental … criteria. Several feedstocks candidate in European countries biodiesel industry, namely different vegetable origin oils. The …

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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

The incremental costs of corrective measures to lessen the environmental impacts of the hydroelectric system are expected to increase and difficult questions to arise about the costs, effectiveness, and justification of alternative measures and their systemwide implications. The BPA anticipate...

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Design of Studies for Development of BPA Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Accounting Policy Phase II, Volume I, 1985-1988 Summary Report.

Kneese, Allen V. - 2008

As the mitigation prescribed by the Regional Act proceeds, the incremental costs of corrective measures to lessen the environmental impacts of the hydroelectric system are expected to increase and difficult questions to arise about the costs, effectiveness, and justification of alternative...

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Proposed Revenues, Financial Strategy, and Program Costs for FY 1992 and 1993 : Technical Appendix, BPA Programs in Perspective.

United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2009

Programs in Perspective is the Bonneville Power Administration's public involvement process (PIP) for engaging customers and other stakeholders in a regional dialog to set strategic direction and broad program plans for BPA effort. This planning leads into a biennial rate setting cycle and...

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Identification, definition and evaluation of potential impacts facing the US electric utility industry over the next decade. Final report

Grainger, J.J.; Lee, S.S.H. - 2008

There are numerous conditions of the generation system that may ultimately develop into system states affecting system reliability and security. Such generation system conditions should also be considered when evaluating the potential impacts on system operations. The following five issues have...

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Research results and utility experience workshop: Proceedings

2008

This workshop was sponsored by the Distributed Utility Valuation (DUV) Project-a joint effort of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Department of Energy (DOE), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) Department of Energy (DOE), and Pacific Gas &...

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A methodology to estimate security of supply in electricity generation: results for Germany until 2030 given a high level of intermittent electricity feed-in

Paulus, Moritz; Grave, Katharina; Lindenberger, Dietmar - 2011

In this paper, we develop a methodology for deriving a consistent measure for supply adequacy in the power generation sector. We especially consider the secured generation capacity of intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind. Availability of conventional power plants is estimated...

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Scope of electricity efficiency improvement in Switzerland until 2035

Krey, Boris - 2008

This study uses Markowitz mean-variance portfolio theory with forecasted data for the years 2005 to 2035 to determine efficient electricity generating technology mixes for Switzerland. The SURE procedure has been applied to filter out the systematic components of the covariance matrix. Results...

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The reformed plan system: China's power industry

Zhang, L - 2010

Since the reform in the 1980s, the Chinese electric power industry has experienced rapid expansion in both capacity and outputs, which is surprising since the industry is still under a plan control. The shortage of supply is a common problem in a plan economy according to the conventional...

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