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Essays on Distribution Channel Structures, Efficiency and Market Performance

Lucinda Trigo Gamarra - 2008

This collection of articles contributes to knowledge of the German insurance industry after its liberalization by analyzing changes in the structure and choice of distribution channels in private insurance markets in the first and second article. In a third article the development of market...

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Savings from new oil furnaces: A study conducted as part of Washington State's Oil Help Program

Davis, R. - 2008

The Washington State Energy Office (WSEO) has been running the Oil Help program for three years. Originally operated as a loan program, Oil Help switched to rebates during the 1987 and 1988. Rebates for oil furnace replacements made up over 70 percent of rebate funds, which totaled about $1.3...

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Price-Responsive Load (PRL) Program - Framing Paper No.1

Goldman, Charles A. - 2008

market and to improve the economic efficiency and environmental profile of the electric sector. To those ends, NEDRI is … focusing its efforts in four interrelated areas: (1) ISO-level reliability programs, (2) Market-based price-responsive load … programs, (3) Demand response at retail through pricing, rate design, and advanced metering, and (4) End-use energy efficiency …

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How can energy-efficient structures compete in an inefficient energy market

Noll, S. - 2009

The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the...

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Least cost planning from a customer's perspective

Sutherland, R.J. - 2008

oil. An additional choice is the energy efficiency capital investment in my home that could decrease my monthly fuel costs …. My decision process, hopefully as a rational consumer, offers implications about the efficiency of various services …

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Survey of state regulatory activities on least cost planning for gas utilities

Goldman, C.A.; Hopkins, M.E. - 2009

Integrated resource planning involves the creation of a process in which supply-side and demand-side options are integrated to create a resource mix that reliably satisfies customers' short-term and long-term energy service needs at the lowest cost. Incorporating the concept of meeting customer...

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Economic-efficiency considerations in restructuring electric markets

Hill, L.J. - 2009

; and (4) economic efficiency. We address economic-efficiency considerations in this study. Economic efficiency is important … electric-industry`s efficiency lowers costs and, hence, electric prices. In this study, we look at the sources of (in)efficiency … short run, firms who cannot produce at the market-clearing price are forced to leave the industry, ensuring that customers …

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