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Planning for compliance with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) is raising many questions for state regulators. How, for example, will compliance affect voluntary and regulatory renewable energy markets? How can carbon trading under mass-based and rate-based… View Summary +
Under the proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP), traditional air regulation based on solutions at individual generation plants will shift to a more flexible approach based on four building blocks, one of which is energy efficiency. Given most states’ experience with… View Summary +
This Issuesletter discusses grid operation issues and their effect on wind resource development, scheduling and imbalance penalties, transmission tariff flexibility, planning and interconnection queues, and capacity credit for intermittent resources. View Summary +
This Issuesletter focuses on renewable energy certificates as a mechanism to protect against electrictiy price fluctuations, increase resource diversity, and secure a variety of environmental benefits. View Summary +
This newsletter shares program development information on green pricing, a service that electric utilities can offer to their customers to support acquiring more renewable energy resources. This is Volume 8: RECs. View Summary +
This newsletter shares program development information on green pricing, a service that electric utilities can offer to their customers to support acquiring more renewable energy resources. This is Volume 6: Competition. View Summary +
This report documents the results of focus group research evaluating the perceived information needs of electricity consumers. These results are based on 19 focus groupsperformed as part of the overall study. View Summary +
This is a report documenting focus group research on consumer information preferences for choosing a competitive electricity service provider in two West Coast states. Participants wanted standard disclosures to enable informed electricity supply decisions. View Summary +
This newsletter shares program development information on green pricing, a service that electric utilities can offer to their customers to support acquiring more renewable energy resources. This is Volume 5: Commercial Demand. View Summary +
This newsletter shares program development information on green pricing, a service that electric utilities can offer to their customers to support acquiring more renewable energy resources. This is Volume 7: Default Service. View Summary +
This green pricing resource guide is intended to assist those who are planning or considering a green pricing program, a voluntary customer option to pay a premium for environmentally-preferred sources of electricity. View Summary +
This newsletter shares program development information on green pricing, a service that electric utilities can offer to their customers to support acquiring more renewable energy resources. This is Volume 4: Disclosure and Certification. View Summary +
This newsletter shares program development information on green pricing, a service that electric utilities can offer to their customers to support acquiring more renewable energy resources. This is Volume 3. View Summary +
This volume is a collection of papers based on a series of writings and workshops on competition in the electric utility industry presented through workshops to commissions and staff in states across the country in late 1994 and1995. View Summary +
This study was undertaken to determine through empirical research the relative success of utility energy efficiency programs with a track record, and that are compatible with acompetitive industry, i.e., low cost or no cost to the sponsoring utility or government… View Summary +