market prices. Public utility commissioners are encouraged to permit utilities a free choice in signing gas contracts, but to … allow only competitive market prices to be reflected in allowable fuel costs. …

uncertain gas price forecast. This paper compares natural gas prices that can be locked in through futures, swaps, and physical … supply contracts to contemporaneous long-term forecasts of spot gas prices. We find that from 2000-2003, forward gas prices …

-term natural gas price forecasts from the AEO series to contemporaneous natural gas prices that can be locked in through the …, forward natural gas contracts (with prices that can be locked in--e.g., gas futures, swaps, and physical supply) have traded … price gas-fired generation that have been based on AEO natural gas price forecasts (rather than forward prices) have yielded …

include capacity credit, regulation impacts and costs, and preliminary load-following impacts via the supplemental energy …

energy capacity additions. The focus of most RPS activity in the U.S. has been within the states. Nonetheless, the U.S. House … electricity suppliers (also called load-serving entities, or LSEs) to procure a certain minimum quantity of eligible renewable … energy. An RPS establishes numeric targets for renewable energy supply, applies those targets to retail electricity suppliers …

Many state regulatory commissions and policymakers want utilities to aggressively pursue energy efficiency as a … generation. However, as the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency (NAPEE 2007) points out, many utilities continue to shy … away from aggressively expanding their energy efficiency efforts when their shareholder's fundamental financial interests …

, control, and transmit electricity in support of the basic services of generating capacity, energy supply, and power delivery …

production tax credit and current high gas prices), a margin of 0.3-0.6 cents/kWh may in some cases be enough to sway resource … plants accounted for 96% of the total generating capacity added in the US between 1999 and 2002--138 GW out of a total of 144 … GW. Looking ahead, the EIA expects that gas-fired technology will account for 61% of the 355 GW new generating capacity …

business fundamentals such as site selection, projected customer counts, peak and off-peak fueling capacity needs and total … and fueling infrastructure; prospective customers financial resources; local real estate availability, cost and traffic …

-term natural gas price forecasts from the AEO series to contemporaneous natural gas prices that can be locked in through the … natural gas contracts (with prices that can be locked in--e.g., gas futures, swaps, and physical supply) have traded at a …-fired generation that have been based on AEO natural gas price forecasts (rather than forward prices) have yielded results that are …