generated in California and Nevada. The majority of geothermal capacity came on line during the 1980s when stable market …

--i.e., whether a utility should sign a power purchase agreement (PPA) with a NUG, or develop and own the generation capacity itself … article looks at a publicly owned utility's decision to buy or build new renewable energy capacity--specifically wind and … assess the levelized cost of electricity under four supply options: (1) public utility ownership of new geothermal capacity …

established, their impact is already evident: almost 1800 MW of new renewable capacity has been installed in Western states …, representing approximately 83% of RPS-driven renewable capacity growth in the West through 2007. Geothermal energy occupies a … distant second place, providing 7% of RPS-driven new renewable capacity in the West since the late 1990s, though geothermal …