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 report describes the technical assistance provided to New Jersey as the state further developed its renewable energy policies. In late 2002, Governor James E. McGreevey created the New Jersey Renewable Energy Task Force. The Task Force represented a broad… View Summary +

Over the preceding decades, state and federal policymakers invented a host of new devices intended to bring market forces to the electric industry at all points, from generation to consumption. To a large extent, the major goals of wholesale and… View Summary +

This chapter focuses on the role that demand response resources can play in resolving reliability and congestion problems across the wires networks serving New England at both the regional and local levels. New system planning and investment strategies are needed… View Summary +

In this paper, the National Council on Competition and the Electric Industry reviews the progress of the labeling efforts it had a hand in initiating several years ago. The significant early research sponsored by the Council was important in demonstrating… 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 +

This is the issues paper for the DOE National Transmission Grid Study. In order to construct new transmission facilities or to significantly upgrade existing facilities in the U.S. electricity system, developers typically need approval from several state and federal agencies. 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 +

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 +