price reductions are, in turn, expected to reduce electricity prices and--more importantly--directly reduce consumer natural …-price natural gas-fired electricity generation, and replacing that generation with fixed-price renewable electricity supply. In … can also put downward pressure on natural gas prices by reducing demand for gas among gas-fired generators. These gas …

. This growth is typically attributed to technology improvements and resulting cost reductions, the availability of federal … to mid-1990s, but relegated to lesser importance as many states took steps to restructure their electricity markets in … 2005). In aggregate, these twelve utilities supply approximately half of all electricity demand in the western United …

The partial monopolization of the world oil market by the OPEC cartel has produced significant economic costs to the … to a hypothetical ''more competitive'' world oil market scenario. By measuring past costs we avoid the enormous … uncertainties about the future course of the world oil market and leave to the reader's judgment the issue of how much the future …

-term natural gas price forecasts from the AEO series to contemporaneous natural gas prices that can be locked in through the … forward market, with the goal of better understanding fuel price risk and the role that renewables play in mitigating such …, forward natural gas contracts (with prices that can be locked in--e.g., gas futures, swaps, and physical supply) have traded …

The last two decades have seen a dramatic increase in the market share of independent, nonutility generators (NUGs …) the tax-free status of publicly owned utilities and the availability of low-cost debt, and (2) the renewable energy … a NUG include: (1) the availability of federal tax credits and accelerated depreciation schedules for certain forms of …

electric restructuring efforts in many states is that most of the attention has been focused on the supply side, in a market … focused on the short term. In general, the demand side of the market has been under-addressed. The objective of the New … market and to improve the economic efficiency and environmental profile of the electric sector. To those ends, NEDRI is …

The last two decades have seen a dramatic increase in the market share of independent, non-utility generators (NUGs …: (1) the tax-free status of publicly owned utilities and the availability of low-cost debt, and (2) the renewable energy … a NUG include: (1) the availability of federal tax credits and accelerated depreciation schedules for certain forms of …

distributed electricity-generating technologies during the next 20-100 years in the United States. For the purposes of this report … influence the market penetration of renewable energy and distributed generation technologies. Most notable among these are … natural gas prices, technology improvements, and policy measures. Natural gas prices are important because most new generating …

undifferentiated (or ''commodity'') electricity. These accounting and verification systems are intended to verify compliance with …. Simultaneously, interest is growing in transacting (importing or exporting) generation attributes across electricity market borders … renewables portfolio standards, each rely on the ability to differentiate electricity by the ''attributes'' of the generation …

This paper deals with the market for SO{sub 2} emission allowances over time and electric utility compliance choices …{sub 2} allowance prices, compliance choices, capacity expansion, system dispatch, fuel use, and emissions. The revised model … scrubber incentives in Phase 1, there is likely to be substantial emission banking for use in Phase 2. Allowance prices are …