divested, and the retail market was opened to competition. To ensure that small customers shared in the expected benefit of … reinforces the argument for accurate pricing of electricity as a stimulus to energy efficiency investment and as a constraint on …California's restructured electricity markets opened on 1 April 1998. The former investor-owned utilities were …

equally vulnerable. Factors such as local generation costs, transmission constraints, market concentration, and market design … can all play a role in the success or failure of the market. These factors along with the mix of generation capacity … report concentrated on providing an analysis of the Oklahoma system in the near-term, using only present generation resources …

-geothermal resources in the mid-term, and probable impacts of new government incentives on mid-term resource utilization profiles. (MHR) …

of Texas that have an interest in and/or responsibility for geothermal/geopressured resources were identified. Work …

This study is concerned with U.S. geothermal resources, their potential for commercial utilization by electric … utilities between now and the year 2000, and their impact on the utility industry. USGS estimates of the resources in identified … hydrothermal systems were extrapolated to the undiscovered resources marked by hot springs, and further to the blind resources …

The energy service company (ESCO) business model could become significantly more effective by integrating the energy-efficiency … methods that rely on rarefied academic notions of simple payback time or a narrow definition of return on investment fail to … capture a significant component of the true market value created by virtue of reduced operating expenses. Improvements in …

concerned with market shares, equity growth, market saturation, and profit. U.S. manufacturing is no exception and is a prime … technology in terms of material throughput, efficiency, energy usage, environmental effects, and costs. These parameters also …

The last two decades have seen a dramatic increase in the market share of independent, non-utility generators (NUGs … NUG-owned renewable energy, and (2) the California state production incentives available to NUGs but not utilities. This … geothermal power--in California. To examine the economic aspects of this decision, we modified and updated a 20-year financial …