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Accelerating the Adoption of Second-Tier Reach Standards forApplicable Appliance Products in China

Lin, Jiang; Fridley, David - 2008

The minimum energy efficiency standards program for household appliances in China was initiated in 1989. Since 1996 …, CLASP and its implementing partner, LBNL, have assisted China in developing 11 minimum energy performance standards (MEPS … (under development). Before 2003, China's traditional approach to standards development involved small increases in …

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Enterprise Investment During the Transition: Evidence from Czech Panel Data

Lizal, Lubomir; Svejnar, Jan - 1997

We analyze investment behavior of the population of medium and large industrial firms located in the Czech Republic in 1992-95. We examine the relevance of alternative models of investment and test if investment behavior varies across ownership-legal form categories of firms. By using a large...

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An Analysis of Methods for Identifying Local Import Substitution Opportunities to Foster Sustainable Regional Economies

Elvin, David - 2008

Import substitution presents many economic development opportunities that can help regions achieve greater economic sustainability and self-reliance. Yet import substitution is largely neglected in economic development theory, practice and literature. There are few methods and resources...

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Is there a link between regional planning and economic growth?

Levine, Joyce N. - 2000

Regionalism is being explored by a wide variety of community players who include representatives from the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors (Dodge 1996, 1). Intermunicipal agreements, county service expansion, new region-wide special purpose governments, and multi-sector coalitions of...

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Economic Development Activities at the Young - Rainey Science, Technology, & Research (STAR) Center

Paul S. Sacco; Carl Smeigh; John Caponiti, Jr. - 2008

Project mission was to mitigate the adverse economic effects of closing the U.S. Department of Energy's Pinellas Plant in Largo, Florida. This project was to facilitate the physical renovation of the plant and to help maintain and create jobs for the employees that worked at the plant when DOE...

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Property Tax Assessments as a Finance Vehicle for Residential PV Installations: Opportunities and Potential Limitations

Bolinger, Mark A; Bolinger, Mark - 2008

Readily accessible credit has often been cited as a necessary ingredient to open up the market for residential photovoltaic (PV) systems. Though financing does not reduce the high up-front cost of PV, by spreading that cost over some portion of the system's life, financing can certainly make PV...

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A municipal guide to least cost utility planning

2008

The recent track record of traditional'' electricity planning, which entails selection of supply side resources to meet forecasted demand, has not been good. There are numerous examples of utilities incorrectly forecasting demand and over-building generating capacity while others underestimated...

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New Berkeley Lab Report Tracks a Decade of PV Installed Cost Trends

Barbose, Galen; Peterman, Carla; Wiser, Ryan - 2009

Installations of PV systems have been expanding at a rapid pace in recent years. In the United States, the market for PV is driven by national, state, and local government incentives, including upfront cash rebates, production-based incentives, requirements that electricity suppliers purchase a...

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Tracking the Sun III; The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998-2009

Barbose, Galen; Darghouth, Naim; Wiser, Ryan - 2011

Installations of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have been growing at a rapid pace in recent years. In 2009, approximately 7,500 megawatts (MW) of PV were installed globally, up from approximately 6,000 MW in 2008, consisting primarily of grid-connected applications. With 335 MW of...

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Tracking the Sun II: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2008

Barbose, Galen L; Wiser, Ryan; Peterman, Carla; … - 2010

Installations of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have been growing at a rapid pace in recent years. In 2008, 5,948 MW of PV was installed globally, up from 2,826 MW in 2007, and was dominated by grid-connected applications. The United States was the world's third largest PV market in terms of...

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