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Economic Impacts of Geothermal Development in Deschutes County, Oregon.

Sifford, Alex; Beale, Kasi - 2009

induced changes in the local economy. Direct economic impacts result for the costs of plant development, construction, and … respending as goods and services to support the households and local governments are purchased. Employment impacts of geothermal … induced employment impacts associated with the geothermal plant. …

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IM-GEO: Impact of R and D on cost of geothermal power: Documentation of Model Version 2. 09

Petty, S.; Entingh, D.; Livesay, B.J. - 2007

IM-GEO is an analysis used to estimate the impact of technology improvements on the relative cost of hydrothermal power. The analysis is available in a tutorial program for use on personal computers. It is designed for use by R and D program managers to evaluate R and D options. Only the...

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Technical support document: Energy conservation standards for consumer products: Dishwashers, clothes washers, and clothes dryers including: Environmental impacts; regulatory impac...

2008

impacts include forecasts of appliance sales, efficiencies, energy use, and consumer expenditures. The individual impacts are …

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Implications of lifting the ban on the export of Alaskan crude oil: Price and trade impacts

2008

This study addresses the issue of the ban on exports of Alaskan crude oil. At present almost all crude oil production from Alaska must be sold in the United States, i.e., it may not be exported. This study examines the impact, mainly on the West Coast, of eliminating this export restraint. The...

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A Review of Recent RTO Benefit-Cost Studies: Toward MoreComprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity RestructuringPolicies

Eto, Joseph H.; Lesieutre, Bernard C. - 2009

During the past three years, government and private organizations have issued more than a dozen studies of the benefits and costs of Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs). Most of these studies have focused on benefits that can be readily estimated using traditional production-cost...

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Analysis of selected energy security issues related to US crude oil and natural gas exploration, development, production, transportation and processing. Final report, Task 13

2008

In July 1989, President Bush directed the Secretary of Energy to initiate the development of a comprehensive National Energy Strategy (NES) built upon a national consensus. The overall principle for the NES, as defined by the President and articulated by the Economic Policy Council (EPC), is the...

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Comments on new technical and economic data available for EPA`s proposed offshore oil and gas discharge guidelines and standards

2008

The purpose of this paper is to provide comments on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Notice in the Federal Register entitled, ``Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category, Offshore Subcategory; Effluent Limitations Guidelines and New Source Performance Standards; New Information and...

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Geopressured-geothermal energy development: government incentives and institutional structures

Frederick, D.O.; Prestwood, D.C.L.; Roberts, K.; … - 2007

The following subjects are included: a geothermal resource overview, the evolution of the current Texas geopressured-geothermal institutional structure, project evaluation with uncertainty and the structure of incentives, the natural gas industry, the electric utility industry, potential...

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Economic Impacts of Geothermal Development in Harney County, Oregon.

Sifford, Alex; Beale, Kasi - 2009

changes in the local economy. Direct economic impacts result from the costs of plant development, construction, and operation … goods and services to support the households and local governments are purchased. Employment impacts of geothermal … induced employment impacts associated with the geothermal plant. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435836

Modeling the Oil Transition: A Summary of the Proceedings of the DOE/EPA Workshop on the Economic and Environmental Implications of Global Energy Transitions

Greene, David L - 2011

global economy and the global environment. It is important that global institutions have the tools necessary to predict …

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