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If the video is not visible, please accept all cookies to enable the player. In the latest RAP webinar, Tim Woolf, Vice President of Synapse Energy Economics and author of the recent paper Energy Efficiency Cost-Effectiveness… View Summary +
In this brief memo, RAP considers the role that utility market factors such as the price of natural gas, can play in the context of emerging environmental regulations and in regulatory compliance strategies. Utilities will consider both regulatory compliance and… View Summary +
IMPEAQ is RAP’s initial effort to develop a model process that states, local agencies, and EPA can apply to comprehensively and simultaneously reduce all air pollutants, including criteria, toxic, and greenhouse gases (GHGs). IMPEAQ seeks to identify least-cost pathways to… View Summary +
In November 2010, China’s National Development and Reform Commission issued a guidance document that requires grid companies in China to carry out demand-side management (DSM) activities to achieve specified targets for reductions in electricity sales (GWh) and peak demand (MW). View Summary +
RAP hat den Marktdesign Vorschlag des WWF/Öko-Instituts eines so genannten „Fokussierten Kapazitätsmarkt” als gute Ausgangsbasis identifiziert. Insbesondere zwei Punkte scheinen jedoch verbesserungswürdig. Zum einen sollten die Auktionen für neue Erzeugungseinheiten nicht separat durchgeführt werden, da die Möglichkeit einer Zusammenführung aller… View Summary +
Coal continues to be the dominant fuel choice for power generation around the world. How that coal is burned can influence the rate and quantity of emissions produced by its combustion. For decades, many countries have established standards and specifications… View Summary +
The resources below are offered as part of our Complying with Environmental Regulations Knowledge Management Series. These papers provide perspectives on utility resource planning and ongoing portfolio management. Addressing the Effects of Environmental Regulations:… View Summary +
In this commentary for Climate Spectator, RAP senior advisor David Crossley set the record straight on China’s energy efficiency accomplishments. Since the 1980’s, the Chinese government has established a series of wide-reaching energy conservation and energy efficiency policies. As a… View Summary +
In comments to the European Commission, RAP emphasized the importance of establishing effective market mechanisms to encourage investment in resources capable of providing critical system services, including energy efficiency and demand response resources. RAP also recommends reframing the issue to… View Summary +
The debate in Europe over the need for ‘traditional’ quantity-based capacity market designs to provide investment is now—appropriately– evolving into discussions over how to reward capacity with sufficient flexibility to reliably operate power systems with rapidly growing shares of variable… View Summary +
