electricity is low and net-availability and transport capacity high. Accounting for periods of gas specific pricing is relevant … prevalent in recent years, i.e., we find no evidence of underinvestment in capacity after deregulation. …

This paper studies the interplay between the operational and financial facets of capacity investment. We consider the … capacity choice problem of a firm with limited liquidity and whose access to external capital markets is hampered by moral … hazard. The firm must therefore not only calibrate its capacity investment and the corresponding funding needs, but also …

Demand Response (DR) is capable of reducing the need for generation capacity investments in order to ensure system … security. We utilise this fact to devise a novel methodology for estimating a load-shifting DR resource's capacity contribution … and therefore determining DR's potential for participation in capacity markets. DR primarily affects the equilibrium …

capacity or resource scarcity considerations or adequate strategic profiling. …

capacity than to idle it. The method can be used to define markets, to assess the likelihood of competitive effects and to …

levels (packaging, shipping, vehicle, fleet) as the ratio of required to a ailable capacity. Shipping level includes … utilization of purchased capacity, which is of special interest to shippers. For applying the model in practice, calculation …

valuable information to the participants in an EIS process involving capacity expansion of an electric or gas utility. The … expansion path for each altemative, the detailed quantification of environmental damages associated with capacity expansion, and …

capacity grew from less than half of aggregate annual capacity installations in 2000-2002 to nearly two-thirds in 2007. This … installed capacity in recent years primarily reflects two important differences between the non-residential and residential …

In the United States, there has been substantial recent growth in wind energy generating capacity, with growth … averaging 24 percent annually during the past five years. About 1,700 MW of wind energy capacity was installed in 2001, while …