This documents contains Minnesota Department of Commerce comments to the Minnesota Environmental Disclosure Workgroup. 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 +

This document is a manual that describes cost-effectiveness tests for energy efficiency, including the participant test, ratepayer impact measure test, total resource cost test, and program administrator cost test. It also provides cost-effectiveness calculation procedures. View Summary +

Policymakers looking for a more robust way to appreciate reliability and to assess what influence they can have over the outcome will find help in this report. This paper will review what reliability is, and encourage broad thinking about how… View Summary +

This Issuesletter discusses price volatility in the short term electricity market and recommends solutions to protect customers, particularly small-use customers, while improving the long-term competitiveness of the wholesale markets. View Summary +

This document is the Michigan Staff Method of Emissions Calculations to the Minnesota Environmental Disclosure Workgroup. Based on the staff’s draft proposal and the comments received, the staff sets forth its final recommendations in the attached document. This document includes… View Summary +

This workpaper describes output-based (or generation performance standard) emission control programs in the United States. Specifically, the purpose of this workpaper is to present and discuss methods for establishing the emission standards for, and administering, output-based programs to control emissions… View Summary +

This report examines the different functions that distributed resources, small-scale generation and efficiency resources, can perform in the wholesale markets, the barriers to integration, and policy and opeartion approaches for promoting “DR”. View Summary +

The purpose of this paper is to describe implementation options for two concepts: deaveraged distribution credits and distributed resource development zones, as first described in Profits and Progress Though Distributed Resources (NARUC,February 2000). 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 +