solid fuels the levelised cost of electricity on a 2008 basis is approximately 10 cents/kWh higher with capture than for … avoided (with a range of US$120-180/tCO2 avoided). For NOAK plants the additional cost of electricity with capture is … conventional SCPC plant for both emissions and costs of electricity. Estimates for both FOAK and NOAK are mainly based on cost data …

developed SolarDS to examine the market competitiveness of PV based on regional solar resources, capital costs, electricity …The Solar Deployment System (SolarDS) model is a bottom-up, market penetration model that simulates the potential …, a PV market share calculator, and a regional aggregator. The model simulates a variety of installed PV capacity for a …

Renewable energy certificates (RECs) represent the attributes of electricity generated from renewable energy sources …. These attributes are unbundled from the physical electricity, and the two products-the attributes embodied in the … certificates and the commodity electricity-may be sold or traded separately. RECs are quickly becoming the currency of renewable …

with ISOs and power exchanges, but preliminary results show that short-term electricity market prices are probably too low … opportunities with short-term, spot-market sales; direct bilateral sales to customers; alternative power exchanges; and perhaps a … transmission systems into more regional transmission networks, which ultimately will allow biomass companies to transmit power over …

The Electricity Market Module (EMM) is the electricity supply component of the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS … state proposals for deregulating the electric power industry. A RPS specifies that electricity suppliers must produce a …). The EMM represents the generation, transmission, and pricing of electricity. It consists of four submodules: the …

-needed demand response in electricity markets. However, in designing default service for competitive retail markets, demand response … initiated customer choice in the past 5-7 years reach an important juncture in retail market design. Most states with retail … responsive demand, creating an important link between wholesale and retail market transactions. This article, which draws from a …

) Impacts on the current market from efficiency regulations. (3) National energy and financial impacts. The analysis relied on … electricity prices, in order to give an estimate of per-unit financial impacts. In addition, the overall impact of the program was … evaluated by combining unit savings with market forecasts in order to yield national impacts. LBNL presented preliminary results …

many other problemsassociated with electricity markets, such as exercise of market power andprice volatility. Indeed … anysignificant, rapid demand-side response to the wholesale (or, spotmarket) price. For a variety of reasons, most electricity … retailers themselves are oftenforced to purchase electricity at volatile wholesale prices set in openmarkets. This results in …

market mandates, create accurate disclosure labels, substantiate green power claims, and support emissions markets …. Simultaneously, interest is growing in transacting (importing or exporting) generation attributes across electricity market borders …Voluntary markets for ''green'' power, and mandatory policies such as fuel source disclosure requirements and …

The last two decades have seen a dramatic increase in the market share of independent, non-utility generators (NUGs …--i.e., whether a utility should sign a power purchase agreement (PPA) with a NUG, or develop and own the generation capacity itself … publicly owned electric utilities, however, perhaps due to the belief that public power's tax-free financing status leaves …