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Power and Cooling Capacity Management for Data Centers
Check out this white paper to learn what you can do to improve your power and cooling efforts and ensure a healthy data center.
Sponsored by APC by Schneider Electric Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800
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White Papers
National Grid: Electric Currency
Jul 2009
National Grid will soon be 20 years old. Growing out of the Central Electricity Generating Board, it was part of the commanding heights of the British economy which were progressively privatised...
Provided by IBS Publishing
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Case Studies
Helping Xcel Energy Achieve High Performance With A Revolutionary And Sustainable Smart Grid Solution
Dec 2008
Minnesota-based Xcel Energy is a major natural gas and electricity provider in the United States. Building on its reputation as a sustainability leader, Xcel Energy recently decided to launch an...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
The Challenge Of Powering The Future: An End-To-End Approach Toward The Next-Generation Utility
Mar 2009
The regulated utility industry in the United States faces an unprecedented dilemma as it is caught between the conflicting demands of a triple bottom line to address the requirements of its...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Accenture Partners With World Economic Forum On Thought-Provoking Smart Grid Point Of View
Jul 2009
The challenges of climate change and the continued growth of electricity demand are putting increasing stress on the world's electricity network infrastructure. The prevailing design philosophy...
Provided by WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
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White Papers
Portfolio Risk Management And Carbon Emissions Valuation In Electric Power
Feb 2010
The energy business is in transition from a cost structure based on fuel and capital to a business that also accounts for the carbon footprint of energy production, transmission and end use. In...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Competition In Germany's Minute Reserve Power Market: An Econometric Analysis
Oct 2009
On December 1, 2006 a major reform of the German Electricity Reserve Market took place. In response to low liquidity, low competitiveness, and high prices, the four distinct and time separated...
Provided by Technische Universität Berlin
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White Papers
The Marginal Effects Of The Price For Carbon Dioxide: Quantifying The Effects On The Market For Electric Generation In Florida
Nov 2009
Greater emphasis on public policy aimed at internalizing the societal cost of carbon dioxide emissions leads to more questions about the economic impacts of that policy. The United States...
Provided by University of Florida
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White Papers
Energy Conservation "Nudges" And Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment
Jul 2010
Nudges are being widely promoted to encourage energy conservation. The authors show that while the electricity conservation "Nudge" of providing feedback to households on own and peers' home...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Why Has California's Residential Electricity Consumption Been So Flat Since The 1980s?
May 2010
The authors use detailed microeconomic data to investigate why aggregate residential electricity consumption in California has been flat since 1980. Using unique micro data, they document the role...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Electric Usage Information And Public And Private Incentives: A Pilot Project
Jun 2010
Residential and commercial buildings collectively accounts for over two-thirds of electricity usage (EPA 2010, EIA 2010). While current research indicates that behavioral changes induced by...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Urban Policy Effects On Carbon Mitigation
Apr 2010
Suppose that your household was choosing between living in suburban Houston or center city San Francisco. In each case, what would your household's annual carbon footprint be? Glaeser and Kahn...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Electricity Transmission Policy For America: Enabling A Smart Grid, End-to-End
Jul 2009
This paper proposes a framework of policies to guide the future development of America's electric transmission grid so that the electric power industry will be able to serve more effectively the...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Can The U.S. Have Reliable Electricity?
May 2006
The United States ranks toward the bottom among developed nations in terms of the reliability of the electricity service. The August 14, 2003 blackout put fifty million people in the dark. A...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Internal Supply Chain Coordination In The Electric Utility Industry
Apr 2008
Electric utilities have a well-established vertical internal and external supply chain. Theoretically, information sharing, involving production, inventory, and other policy variables, between...
Provided by Elsevier B.V.
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White Papers
Electricity Prices And Costs Under Regulation And Restructuring
Mar 2008
Restructuring of the electricity industry was expected to improve the operating efficiency of electric power generators, leading to lower production costs and retail prices. Most studies conclude...
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
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White Papers
Agent-Based Simulation Of Electricity Markets: A Survey Of Tools
Jun 2009
Agent-based simulation has been a popular technique in modeling and analyzing electricity markets in recent years. The main objective of this paper is to study existing agent-based simulation...
Provided by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
The Green Grid: Energy Savings And Carbon Emissions Reductions Enabled
Dec 2008
This paper, prepared as part of the EPRI Energy Efficiency Initiative, provides a first-order quantification of energy savings and carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions reduction impacts of a Smart Grid...
Provided by Electric Power Research Institute
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White Papers
The Green Grid Metrics: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCIE) Detailed Analysis
Jul 2008
The Green Grid previously published THE GREEN GRID METRICS: DESCRIBING DATACENTER POWER EFFICIENCY white paper. The following is detailed analysis to support and strengthen the Data Center...
Provided by Green Grid
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White Papers
Making New Transmission Palatable Through The 'Green Grid'
Jul 2007
Greater interties of the grid and interconnectivity is always on the table to help improve the electrical grid across North America. In Canada, Ontario has been pushing generation, this Green Grid...
Provided by Golder Associates
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White Papers
Renewable Energy: A Smart Grid Is A Green Grid
Aug 2008
Upgrading the network of power plants, power lines, and substations that constitute the electricity grid is decades overdue. This upgrade to a "Smart grid" will be the energy equivalent to opening...
Provided by Center for Neighborhood Technology
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White Papers
A Greener Way? Grids And Green Computing
Jul 2009
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing us in the 21st century and, across Europe, efforts are being made to cut down on energy usage and carbon emissions. The EU has set a target...
Provided by GridTalk
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White Papers
Analyzing The Transmission System In The Electricity Industry
Jul 2007
The authors analyze the decentralization of the transmission system in different organizational structures: a single firm, or Transco solution versus and a two-firm organization formed by a...
Provided by World Bank Group
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White Papers
Trends In America: Electricity Transmission
Jun 2008
The complexities of constructing new transmission lines can pose additional problems - siting and constructing new power lines is quickly becoming a contentious issue. The 2005 Energy Policy Act...
Provided by Council of State Governments
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White Papers
Electricity Transmission Infrastructure Development In New England
Dec 2007
New England's electric transmission system remains under stress despite recent improvements, many of them significant. The stress is caused by the growing demand for electricity coupled with...
Provided by New England Energy Alliance
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White Papers
Electricity Transmission Sector In Brazil - Analysis Of The Auctions' Results And The Public And Private Firms' Costs
Dec 2008
In Brazil, most of the electricity used by households and industries is supplied by hydropower plants. In general these plants are built on rivers with natural waterfalls that are usually very far...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
Response To The National Grid Offshore Electricity Transmission Access And Compensation Industry Workshop Outputs
Feb 2008
The standards for onshore networks have been defined on the basis of optimizing network design to accommodate requirements for reliability and economic efficiency at least cost. The cost benefit...
Provided by UK Centre for Distributed Generation and Sustainable Electrical Energy
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White Papers
Electric Transmission: Approaches For Energizing A Sagging Industry
Oct 2007
The electric utility industry is inherently capital-intensive. At the same time, the industry must operate under a changing and sometimes unpredictable regulatory system at both the federal and...
Provided by Interwest Energy Alliance
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White Papers
High-Level Review Of Offshore Electricity Transmission Proposals
Jul 2008
Pöyry Energy Consulting has been commissioned by a group of offshore wind developers to conduct an independent, high-level review of the proposals relating to the regulatory regime set out in the...
Provided by Pöyry
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White Papers
Transmission Network Congestion In Deregulated Wholesale Electricity Market
Mar 2009
Electricity market plays an important role in improving the economics of electrical power system. Transmission network is vital entity in open access deregulated wholesale electricity market....
Provided by International Association of Engineers
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White Papers
Texas Electric Deregulation Entering With A Bang Or A Whimper?
Nov 2010
Electricity deregulation has begun in Texas, not with a bang but a whimper. Despite aggressive promotional campaigns, the average Texas consumer still isn't convinced there is much value in...
Provided by Decision Analyst
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White Papers
Demand-side Management Strategies And The Residential Sector: Lessons From International Experience
Nov 2010
This paper explores Demand Side Management (DSM) strategies, including both demand response and energy efficiency policies. The aim is to uncover what features might strengthen DSM effectiveness....
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Low Carbon Electricity Investment: The Limitations Of Traditional Approaches And A Radical Alternative
Sep 2010
Moving to a very low carbon electricity system is central to meeting the goals of UK energy policy, and indeed to the wider global challenge of tackling climate change. This will require massive...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
New Models Of Public Ownership In Energy
Sep 2010
This paper discusses some of the new and continuing ways in which the public sector is involved in the electricity / energy sector around the world. This involvement continues to be significant in...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Estimating Marginal Cost Of Quality Improvements: The Case Of The UK Electricity Distribution Companies
Sep 2010
The main aim of this paper is to develop an econometric approach to estimation of marginal costs of improving quality of service. The authors implement this methodology by way of applying it to...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
The Direct Costs And Benefits Of US Electric Utility Divestitures
Sep 2010
This paper studies the impact of divestiture on the efficiency and costs of electric utilities. The empirical literature shows that there exist economies of scope for electric utilities and that...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
The Creation Of A Market For Retail Electricity Supply
Jun 2010
In September 1989, as part of its privatization program, the Government laid down an eight year timetable for opening up to retail competition the entire electricity market of England and Wales,...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Exploring Ahe Determinants Of "Best Practice" In Network Regulation: The Case Of The Electricity Sector
Mar 2010
In this paper the authors use a best practice index constructed from the survey responses of regulators in 40 countries to explore the determinants of outcomes in electricity network regulation....
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Does Weather Explain The Cost And Quality? An Analysis Of UK Electricity Distribution Companies
Dec 2008
An important issue has been the extent to which such results are influenced by contextual factors. Among these, weather factors are frequently discussed as being important. The authors use Factor...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
The Impact Of Power Market Reforms On Electricity Price-cost Margins And Cross-subsidy Levels: A Cross Country Panel Data Analysis
Jan 2011
One of the main expectations from power market reform has been a reduction in price-cost margins and cross-subsidy levels between industrial and residential consumers. This paper focuses on this...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
The Economic Impact Of Electricity Conservation Policies: A Case Study Of Ireland
Jan 2011
As electricity is an essential input in almost every production process, it is essential to quantify the impact of economic policies aimed at electricity conservation on the output. This paper...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Derivative Price Information Use In Hydroelectric Scheduling
Feb 2008
Hydropower producers face the challenge of scheduling the release of water from reservoirs under uncertain future electricity price and reservoir inflow. Using weekly data from thirteen Norwegian...
Provided by Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
The Unbundling Regime For Electricity Utilities In The EU: A Case Of Legislative And Regulatory Capture?
May 2007
Theory and empirics suggest that by curbing competition, incumbent electricity companies which used to be and here are referred to as Vertically Integrated Utilities (VIUs), can increase their...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
The Likely Economic Impact Of Increasing Investment In Wind On The Island Of Ireland
Dec 2009
Like most countries Ireland faces the double target of decreasing emissions and keeping energy costs low to maintain competitiveness of the economy. The two goals are not always compatible. This...
Provided by Economic and Social Research Institute
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White Papers
Intermittency And The Value Of Renewable Energy
May 2011
This paper develops an empirical approach to estimate the equilibrium value of renewable electricity technologies, and applies it to evaluate solar energy mandates in southeastern Arizona. Solar...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Smart Metering And Electricity Demand: Technology, Economics And International Experience
Feb 2009
In recent years smart metering of electricity demand has attracted attention around the world. A number of countries and regions have started deploying new metering systems; and many others have...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Human Resource Constraints For Electricity Regulation In Developing Countries: Has Anything Changed?
Apr 2009
The authors provide strong evidence that there are significant human resource constraints which limit the scale and, hence, the scope and potential effectiveness of electricity/energy regulatory...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Quality Of Supply In Energy Regulation Measurement, Assessment And Experience From Norway
Aug 2009
In order to overcome the incentive of excessive maintenance reductions and insufficient network investments in incentive regulation of electricity distribution companies, regulators throughout...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Electricity Liberalisation In The European Union: A Progress Report
Dec 2009
It is around 5 years since the author's colleague, Tooraj Jamasb, and the author reviewed the EU's progress with electricity reform (Jamasb and Pollitt, 2005). At that time many countries were...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
The Economic Effects Of Electricity Deregulation: An Empricial Analysis Of Indian States
Jan 2010
As developing countries seek to improve their economic prospects, electricity reform has been widely viewed as a central part of this effort. While the focus of most research to date has been at...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
UK Renewable Energy Policy Since Privatisation
Jan 2010
The aim of this paper is to look at the UK's renewable energy policy in the context of its overall decarbonisation and energy policies. This will allow the authors to explore the precise nature of...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
The Supply Function Equilibrium And Its Policy Implications For Wholesale Electricity Auctions
Apr 2010
The supply function equilibrium provides a game-theoretic model of strategic bidding in oligopolistic wholesale electricity auctions. This paper presents an intuitive account of current...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
The Restructuring And Privatisation Of The Peruvian Electricity Distribution Market
Mar 2010
This paper attempts to assess the social welfare impact of the restructuring and privatisation of the electricity market in Peru. The target companies, Electrolima and Electro Sur Medio, account...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Weather Factors And Performance Of Network Utilities: A Methodology And Application To Electricity Distribution
Sep 2010
In efficiency analysis and incentive regulation of utilities it is desirable to control for the effect of differences in environmental factors, such as the weather and geography, on their...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Planning Electricity Transmission To Accommodate Renewables: Using Two-stage Programming To Evaluate Flexibility And The Cost Of Disregarding Uncertainty
Jan 2011
The authors develop a stochastic two-stage optimisation model that captures the multistage nature of electricity transmission planning under uncertainty and apply it to a stylised representation...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Liquidity Constraints And High Electricity Use
Feb 2011
It is a well established fact that electricity use increases with income. What is less well known is that - despite the positive correlation between electricity use and income - a significant...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Payment Matters? - An Exploratory Study Into The Pre-Payment Electricity Metering
Feb 2011
In this paper the authors look at the role of pre-payment (in the context of prepayment metering) for household electricity consumption. Using a matching approach, they find that households paying...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Reforming The Power Sector In Transition: Do Institutions Matter?
Feb 2011
This paper quantitatively explores high-level links between power sector reforms and wider institutional reforms in the economy for a set of 27 diverse countries in rapid political and economic...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Integrating Short-Term Demand Response Into Long-Term Investment Planning
Mar 2011
Planning models have been used for many years to optimize generation investments in electric power systems. More recently, these models have been extended in order to treat demand-side management...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Reforming Small Power Systems Under Political Volatility: The Case Of Nepal
Mar 2011
This paper assesses the electricity sector reforms across small power systems while citing Nepal as an example. The on-going political instability and increasing electricity demand make power...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
The Economics Of Energy (And Electricity) Demand
Apr 2011
Economic drivers, technologies and demand side management are keys in understanding the long-term trends of both energy and more specifically electricity consumption. This paper discusses some of...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
The Mobilisation Of Political Actors As A Collective Purchasing Strategy In The European Electricity Market. Exploiting The Plural Identity Of Political Actors
Sep 2008
In a context of liberalisation, occurring in the European Union, French major electricity users developed a new collective purchasing strategy, based on political sponsorship. The mobilisation of...
Provided by Uppsala University
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White Papers
Different Approaches To Supply Adequacy In Electricity Markets
Apr 2010
This paper studies the electricity market design long run problem of ensuring enough generation capacity to meet future demand (resource adequacy). Reform processes worldwide have shown that it is...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Transmission-Constrained Residual Demand Derivative In Electricity Markets
Nov 2007
The residual demand derivative plays a central role in constructing the best response to competitors' strategies in widely used strategic models such as the Cournot model and the supply function...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Bidding Into Electricity Markets: A Transmission-Constrained Residual Demand Derivative Approach
Nov 2010
This paper proposes a novel approach to optimize a generator's profit in an offer-based electricity market cleared by an Optimal Power Flow (OPF) program. A generator's offer is optimized based on...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
New Indices Of Market Power In Transmission-Constrained Electricity Markets
Aug 2010
MARKET power continues to be a problematic issue in restructured electricity markets, with the interaction between tight supply conditions and transmission limits posing serious difficulties for...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Transmission-Constrained Inverse Residual Demand Jacobian Matrix In Electricity Markets
Feb 2011
A generation firm in an electricity market may own multiple generators located at multiple locations. This paper generalizes the concept of transmission-constrained residual demand from a single...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Border Flow Rights And Contracts For Differences Of Differences: Models For Electric Transmission Property Rights
Jul 2007
In this paper a property rights model for electric transmission is proposed and its properties analyzed. The proposed rights, called "Border flow rights," support financial hedging of transmission...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
Interaction Of Carbon And Electricity Prices Under Imperfect Competition
Nov 2007
In line with economic theory, carbon ETS determines a rise in marginal cost equal to the carbon opportunity cost regardless of whether carbon allowances are allocated free of charge or not. Hence,...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
A Dynamic Incentive Mechanism For Transmission Expansion In Electricity Networks ? Theory, Modeling And Application
May 2010
This paper examines the Hogan-Rosellón-Vogelsang (2007) (HRV) incentive mechanism for transmission expansion, and tests it for different network topologies. This new mechanism is based upon...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
The Invisible Polluter: Can Regulators Save Consumer Surplus?
Aug 2008
Consider an electricity market populated by competitive agents using thermal generating units. Such generation involves the emission of pollutants, on which a regulator might impose constraints....
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Modeling Long-Term Electricity Forward Prices
Feb 2009
In contrast to forwards and futures on storable commodities, prices of long-term electricity forwards exhibit a dynamics different to that of short-term and mid-term prices. The authors model...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Assessing The Influence Of Spot Price Predictability On Electricity Futures Hedging
Nov 2009
A common feature of energy prices is that spot price changes are partially predictable due to weather and demand seasonalities. This paper follows the Ederington and Salas (2008) framework and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
The CIS Common Electric Power Market
Feb 2010
An effective electric-power industry is one of the most important infrastructural bases for economic growth. In turn, developed mechanisms for transborder trade and investments can considerably...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Forecasting Wholesale Electricity Prices: A Review Of Time Series Models
Mar 2010
In this paper the authors assess the short-term forecasting power of different time series models in the electricity spot market. They calibrate AutoRegression (AR) models, including...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Challenges Of Liberalization. The Case Of Polish Electricity And Gas Sector
Jul 2010
This paper applies the general insights of liberalization of the electricity and gas market to the market conditions of a particularly important new Member State in the EU, Poland. To this end the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Power Market Reforms And Privatization Of The Electricity Industry In The Iranian Energy Sector; An Uphill Struggle?
Jan 2011
Following the successful experience of some developed counties in Power market restructuring and reforms, many developing countries have followed suit. Iran has for the last thirty years, since...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
The Economic Impact Of Electricity Conservation Policies: A Case Study Of Ireland
Jan 2011
As electricity is an essential input in almost every production process, it is essential to quantify the impact of economic policies aimed at electricity conservation on the output. This paper...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
The Impact Of Power Market Reforms On Electricity Price-cost Margins And Cross-subsidy Levels: A Cross Country Panel Data Analysis
Jan 2011
One of the main expectations from power market reform has been a reduction in price-cost margins and cross-subsidy levels between industrial and residential consumers. This paper focuses on this...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Does Weather Explain The Cost And Quality? An Analysis Of UK Electricity Distribution Companies
Dec 2008
An important issue has been the extent to which such results are influenced by contextual factors. Among these, weather factors are frequently discussed as being important. The authors use Factor...
Provided by University of Cambridge
-
White Papers
Exploring Ahe Determinants Of "Best Practice" In Network Regulation: The Case Of The Electricity Sector
Mar 2010
In this paper the authors use a best practice index constructed from the survey responses of regulators in 40 countries to explore the determinants of outcomes in electricity network regulation....
Provided by University of Cambridge
-
White Papers
National Grid: Electric Currency
Jul 2009
National Grid will soon be 20 years old. Growing out of the Central Electricity Generating Board, it was part of the commanding heights of the British economy which were progressively privatised...
Provided by IBS Publishing
-
Case Studies
Helping Xcel Energy Achieve High Performance With A Revolutionary And Sustainable Smart Grid Solution
Dec 2008
Minnesota-based Xcel Energy is a major natural gas and electricity provider in the United States. Building on its reputation as a sustainability leader, Xcel Energy recently decided to launch an...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
The Challenge Of Powering The Future: An End-To-End Approach Toward The Next-Generation Utility
Mar 2009
The regulated utility industry in the United States faces an unprecedented dilemma as it is caught between the conflicting demands of a triple bottom line to address the requirements of its...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Accenture Partners With World Economic Forum On Thought-Provoking Smart Grid Point Of View
Jul 2009
The challenges of climate change and the continued growth of electricity demand are putting increasing stress on the world's electricity network infrastructure. The prevailing design philosophy...
Provided by WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
-
White Papers
Portfolio Risk Management And Carbon Emissions Valuation In Electric Power
Feb 2010
The energy business is in transition from a cost structure based on fuel and capital to a business that also accounts for the carbon footprint of energy production, transmission and end use. In...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Competition In Germany's Minute Reserve Power Market: An Econometric Analysis
Oct 2009
On December 1, 2006 a major reform of the German Electricity Reserve Market took place. In response to low liquidity, low competitiveness, and high prices, the four distinct and time separated...
Provided by Technische Universität Berlin
-
White Papers
The Marginal Effects Of The Price For Carbon Dioxide: Quantifying The Effects On The Market For Electric Generation In Florida
Nov 2009
Greater emphasis on public policy aimed at internalizing the societal cost of carbon dioxide emissions leads to more questions about the economic impacts of that policy. The United States...
Provided by University of Florida
-
White Papers
Energy Conservation "Nudges" And Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment
Jul 2010
Nudges are being widely promoted to encourage energy conservation. The authors show that while the electricity conservation "Nudge" of providing feedback to households on own and peers' home...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
-
White Papers
Why Has California's Residential Electricity Consumption Been So Flat Since The 1980s?
May 2010
The authors use detailed microeconomic data to investigate why aggregate residential electricity consumption in California has been flat since 1980. Using unique micro data, they document the role...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Electric Usage Information And Public And Private Incentives: A Pilot Project
Jun 2010
Residential and commercial buildings collectively accounts for over two-thirds of electricity usage (EPA 2010, EIA 2010). While current research indicates that behavioral changes induced by...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
-
White Papers
Urban Policy Effects On Carbon Mitigation
Apr 2010
Suppose that your household was choosing between living in suburban Houston or center city San Francisco. In each case, what would your household's annual carbon footprint be? Glaeser and Kahn...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
-
White Papers
Electricity Transmission Policy For America: Enabling A Smart Grid, End-to-End
Jul 2009
This paper proposes a framework of policies to guide the future development of America's electric transmission grid so that the electric power industry will be able to serve more effectively the...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
Can The U.S. Have Reliable Electricity?
May 2006
The United States ranks toward the bottom among developed nations in terms of the reliability of the electricity service. The August 14, 2003 blackout put fifty million people in the dark. A...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
-
White Papers
Internal Supply Chain Coordination In The Electric Utility Industry
Apr 2008
Electric utilities have a well-established vertical internal and external supply chain. Theoretically, information sharing, involving production, inventory, and other policy variables, between...
Provided by Elsevier B.V.
-
White Papers
Electricity Prices And Costs Under Regulation And Restructuring
Mar 2008
Restructuring of the electricity industry was expected to improve the operating efficiency of electric power generators, leading to lower production costs and retail prices. Most studies conclude...
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
-
White Papers
Agent-Based Simulation Of Electricity Markets: A Survey Of Tools
Jun 2009
Agent-based simulation has been a popular technique in modeling and analyzing electricity markets in recent years. The main objective of this paper is to study existing agent-based simulation...
Provided by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
-
White Papers
The Green Grid: Energy Savings And Carbon Emissions Reductions Enabled
Dec 2008
This paper, prepared as part of the EPRI Energy Efficiency Initiative, provides a first-order quantification of energy savings and carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions reduction impacts of a Smart Grid...
Provided by Electric Power Research Institute
-
White Papers
The Green Grid Metrics: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCIE) Detailed Analysis
Jul 2008
The Green Grid previously published THE GREEN GRID METRICS: DESCRIBING DATACENTER POWER EFFICIENCY white paper. The following is detailed analysis to support and strengthen the Data Center...
Provided by Green Grid
-
White Papers
Making New Transmission Palatable Through The 'Green Grid'
Jul 2007
Greater interties of the grid and interconnectivity is always on the table to help improve the electrical grid across North America. In Canada, Ontario has been pushing generation, this Green Grid...
Provided by Golder Associates
-
White Papers
Renewable Energy: A Smart Grid Is A Green Grid
Aug 2008
Upgrading the network of power plants, power lines, and substations that constitute the electricity grid is decades overdue. This upgrade to a "Smart grid" will be the energy equivalent to opening...
Provided by Center for Neighborhood Technology
-
White Papers
A Greener Way? Grids And Green Computing
Jul 2009
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing us in the 21st century and, across Europe, efforts are being made to cut down on energy usage and carbon emissions. The EU has set a target...
Provided by GridTalk
-
White Papers
Analyzing The Transmission System In The Electricity Industry
Jul 2007
The authors analyze the decentralization of the transmission system in different organizational structures: a single firm, or Transco solution versus and a two-firm organization formed by a...
Provided by World Bank Group
-
White Papers
Trends In America: Electricity Transmission
Jun 2008
The complexities of constructing new transmission lines can pose additional problems - siting and constructing new power lines is quickly becoming a contentious issue. The 2005 Energy Policy Act...
Provided by Council of State Governments
-
White Papers
Electricity Transmission Infrastructure Development In New England
Dec 2007
New England's electric transmission system remains under stress despite recent improvements, many of them significant. The stress is caused by the growing demand for electricity coupled with...
Provided by New England Energy Alliance
-
White Papers
Electricity Transmission Sector In Brazil - Analysis Of The Auctions' Results And The Public And Private Firms' Costs
Dec 2008
In Brazil, most of the electricity used by households and industries is supplied by hydropower plants. In general these plants are built on rivers with natural waterfalls that are usually very far...
Provided by George Washington University
-
White Papers
Response To The National Grid Offshore Electricity Transmission Access And Compensation Industry Workshop Outputs
Feb 2008
The standards for onshore networks have been defined on the basis of optimizing network design to accommodate requirements for reliability and economic efficiency at least cost. The cost benefit...
Provided by UK Centre for Distributed Generation and Sustainable Electrical Energy
-
White Papers
Electric Transmission: Approaches For Energizing A Sagging Industry
Oct 2007
The electric utility industry is inherently capital-intensive. At the same time, the industry must operate under a changing and sometimes unpredictable regulatory system at both the federal and...
Provided by Interwest Energy Alliance
-
White Papers
High-Level Review Of Offshore Electricity Transmission Proposals
Jul 2008
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Transmission Network Congestion In Deregulated Wholesale Electricity Market
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Electricity market plays an important role in improving the economics of electrical power system. Transmission network is vital entity in open access deregulated wholesale electricity market....
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Demand-side Management Strategies And The Residential Sector: Lessons From International Experience
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Low Carbon Electricity Investment: The Limitations Of Traditional Approaches And A Radical Alternative
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New Models Of Public Ownership In Energy
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Estimating Marginal Cost Of Quality Improvements: The Case Of The UK Electricity Distribution Companies
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The Direct Costs And Benefits Of US Electric Utility Divestitures
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This paper studies the impact of divestiture on the efficiency and costs of electric utilities. The empirical literature shows that there exist economies of scope for electric utilities and that...
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The Creation Of A Market For Retail Electricity Supply
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In September 1989, as part of its privatization program, the Government laid down an eight year timetable for opening up to retail competition the entire electricity market of England and Wales,...
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Exploring Ahe Determinants Of "Best Practice" In Network Regulation: The Case Of The Electricity Sector
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In this paper the authors use a best practice index constructed from the survey responses of regulators in 40 countries to explore the determinants of outcomes in electricity network regulation....
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Does Weather Explain The Cost And Quality? An Analysis Of UK Electricity Distribution Companies
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The Impact Of Power Market Reforms On Electricity Price-cost Margins And Cross-subsidy Levels: A Cross Country Panel Data Analysis
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The Economic Impact Of Electricity Conservation Policies: A Case Study Of Ireland
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As electricity is an essential input in almost every production process, it is essential to quantify the impact of economic policies aimed at electricity conservation on the output. This paper...
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