Voluntary consumer decisions to purchase electricity supplied by renewable energy sources represent a powerful market … traditional utilities and from marketers operating in states that have introduced competition into their retail electricity … electricity provider. Currently, more than 600 utilities, or about 20% of utilities nationally, offer green power programs to …

integration, even as the retailers themselves are forced to purchase electricity at volatile wholesale prices set in open markets … stability is threatened. This, then, facilitates many other problems associated with electricity markets, such as market power …Regardless of the form of restructuring, deregulated electricity industries share one common feature: the absence of …

are not able to commit to specific responses months or years in advance. Electricity is a fluid market commodity with a … they can be made more effective in controlling summer peaks and attendant high prices of electricity. Particular attention …-long trend of declining reserve margins. Competition among generators is typically robust, holding down wholesale energy prices …

sources. This issue brief compiles and analyzes recent market research conducted by utility companies on customer interest in … and willingness to pay for renewable electricity. Findings in the areas examined in this review are: Customers are … favorable toward renewable sources of electricity, although they know little about them; Solar and wind are the most favored …

customers response to short-term fluctuations in electricity prices are based on theories of rational firm behavior, where … institutional customers in the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation service territory that have faced day-ahead electricity market …Energy economists have long argued the benefits of real time pricing (RTP) of electricity. Their basis for modeling …

Voluntary consumer decisions to buy electricity supplied from renewable energy sources represent a powerful market … and from renewable energy marketers operating in states that have introduced competition into their retail electricity … markets or offering renewable energy certificates (RECs) online. Today, more than half of all U.S. electricity customers have …

event of an emergency. With California electricity providers stretched to their limits last winter and spring, the … California Energy Commission (CEC) wanted to test its new Automated Emergency Response System in the event of an electricity … electricity demand is significant. The U.S.Department of Energy (DOE) offered to coordinate the federal agencies participating in …

resource availability, infrastructure reliability, and development costs while strategizing renewable energy investment. We …

Peak power demand issues have come to the fore recently because of the California electricity crisis. Uncertainties … difference between peak demand and average demand, and the necessity for real-time delivery of electricity all make the … radically altering the way people use electricity in buildings, but are decades away from widespread use, so DOE R&D and …

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 …