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Summary and concluding remarks
The efficiency of demand side management programs (abbreviated DSM) is one of the most topical and heavily debated issues in applied utility...
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Asymmetric information and strategic consumer reactions
The typical argument for DSM programs of utilities (see e.g., Cicchetti and Hogan (1989), Lewis and Sap**ton (1992) and more recently Braithwait...
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Economic analysis of energy conservation
Although this book focuses on electricity demand, this section considers the demand for energy in general. There are various reasons for this...
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Optimal conservation incentives under asymmetric information
The previous chapter revealed that the practice of demand-side management faces serious economic obstacles. In doing so, the analysis was limited to...
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Incentives for consumers
Whatever the faults of Lovins and other DSM advocates may be, given market failures it is necessary for the utility to consider not only conventional...
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The Future of EU Energy Policy
The Commission of the European Union (EU) is conducting a review of energy policy which will result in a White Paper for the Intergovernmental...
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Advanced Energy-Efficient Lighting Systems: Progress and Potential
From a systems perspective, energy-efficient design should strive to minimize the energy and money required to provide the desired quantity and...
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The Case of Japan and a German Reference Scenario
With a view to deepening the preceding approach through a Japanese case study, the contributions of 20 Japanese experts, mostly from academia but...
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Economic Aspects of Energy Storage
To many, the subject of economics means cost comparison. Indeed, a thorough understanding of costs is the prerequisite to understanding other...
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The Potential for Electrical Efficiency in the Residential Sector Case Study Michigan, USA
Over the last few years, regulatory agencies and electric utilities have increasingly adopted a new planning approach known as least-cost utility...
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Solar Central Receiver Costs for Electric Power Generation
In this paper the cost of solar electric power is compared to the cost of several fossil-fueled electricity generation technologies. There are two...
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Central Receiver Costs for Electric Power Generation
In the near future, solar electric power will become cost-competitive with fossil-fueled electric power generation. Several factors will lower the...
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Energy Pricing Policy Framework and Experience in Develo** Countries
Today’s societies require increasing amounts of energy for domestic, industrial, commercial, agricultural, and transport uses. These energy needs are...
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Thermal Storage in Phase Change Materials. Application to a Solar Air Space Heating System
Different designs of PCM storages are experimented. In a first step, the experimental observations support an analytical description of the charge...
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Solar Energy Assessment Study (Project A)
This paper describes progress made on the Solar Energy Assessment Study during the last nine months. It begins by stating the aims and objectives of...
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Methods of Power Reactor Decommissioning Cost Recovery
Electric utilities have for many years accumulated funds in order to pay for the future decommissioning of equipment and/or facilities. The...
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A Dynamic Welfare Equilibrium Framework for Projecting Energy Futures
This paper provides a bird’s eye description of a medium scale linear programming model for develo** internally consistent projections of U.S....
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A Survey of Some Energy Policy Models
We present, in two tables, basic information about twenty important energy policy models developed in the U.S. and Canada. This is supplemented by...
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The Supply of Reserves: Implications of Institutional Arrangements
The preceding chapters have explained the following: (1) the basic assumptions in this study on the strategies that might be expected of the agent...
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Costing the Movement of Western Canadian Coal to Thunder Bay: An Incremental Approach
The problem of selecting the appropriate mode or combination of modes for the movement of western Canadian coal to Ontario through the year 2000 is...