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This paper is a brief description of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s emission allowance auction process. This article first describes the background principles of the RGGI program, and then explains the auction process by which emissions allowances are allocated. View Summary +
This paper explores the application of generation performance standards, including output-based standadrs, output-based allocations of allowances, and allowance auctions, as a means for encouraging efficient production and planning in China. View Summary +
In 2007, the Minnesota legislature enacted a new statute, Section 216B.2412, in which it defined an alternative approach to utility regulation, decoupling, and directed the PublicUtilities Commission (PUC) to “establish criteria and standards” by which decoupling could be adopted for… View Summary +
The report sets out a broad-based strategy to improve the energy fitness of Vermont buildings and to lower fuel bills for Vermont families and businesses. View Summary +
This paper outlines the use of a team of international and domestic experts, coordinated by Optimal Energy, Inc.,which has been engaged by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to provide technical assistance to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of… View Summary +
This document is the agenda for the Indiana URC workshop: Reducing the Cost of Energy in Indiana. View Summary +
The purpose of this study is to identify the suite of ratemaking policies that will best support the deployment of clean DG systems when balanced against other legitimate objectives—such as equity, economic efficiency, and cost recovery—of setting utility rates. The… View Summary +
This document is a Mid-Atlantic Distributed Resource Initative regulatory subgroup scoping paper on dynamic pricing, aligning retail prices with wholesale markets, the adverse impact of distributed resources on utility earnings, and distributed resources in system planning. View Summary +
This report summarizes international experience with PBF policies that target renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) investments, and identifies lessons learned from these experiences that are applicable to the Chinese context. Financially supported by the Energy Foundation, a number… View Summary +
New England Demand Response Initiative participants present a broad view of the potential for demand response resources to improve the reliability of New England’s power system and to lower its financial and environmental costs. View Summary +
This model rule applies to smaller-scale electric generating resources, referred to collectively as “distributed generation,” and regulates five air pollutants: nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxice, and carbon dioxide. View Summary +
This paper discusses how portfolio management can improve quality of electric service while reducing costs without impinging on efforts to build competitive retail markets in those states committed to that goal. View Summary +
To better align behavior in the retail and wholesale markets, the challenge is to determine what policies need to be implemented and what metering and communications technologies deployed, to encourage customer demand-response. View Summary +
This public review draft from November of 2001, includes the model rule and technical support documents. The Working Group’s task was to develop a set of model rules that states can adopt in whole or adapt, that will foster the… View Summary +
Topics covered in this paper include power system reliability benefits from distributed energy resources, customer-owned generation, customer supplied ancillary services, and improved pricing signals in wholesale and retailmarkets. View Summary +