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Distributed generation (DG) has been identified by some as a new paradigm in power generation, providing new solutions to changing customer needs for electricity. A huge potential market is forecast for a variety of DG technologies in different end use… View Summary +
As a result of the deregulation of the utility industry, there is a growing potential for small, distributed sources of electrical power that may serve a single home, neighborhood, business, or business complex more efficiently than a centrally located power… View Summary +
In this report, we evaluate rate structures for electric distribution services, including embedded and marginal cost valuation methods, approaches and principles of rate design, and interactions with competitive markets. View Summary +
This report provides practical advice on performance-based regulation (PBR) for distribution utilities. It has a focus on designing and evaluating PBRs to encourage deployment of cost-effective distributed resources. View Summary +
This paper analyzes the linkages between energy use and the environment in China with a focus on restructuring the electric industry while integrating environmental impacts into electricity system planning, expandsion, and reform. View Summary +
The purpose of this task is to assess the regulatory implications of planned aggregation and marketing of emergency generator capacity in New York City. Deployment of this generatorcapacity is intended as a temporary measure to alleviate critical near-term capacity shortfalls… View Summary +
This paper focuses on the critically important role of regulation in restructuring, lessons learned from the California crisis, and a few critical aspects of the creation and operation of a regulatory agency. View Summary +
Restructuring an electric power system invariably affects the environment. For a nation alert to these effects, restructuring is an opportunity to improve not only economic performance butenvironmental quality as well. For a nation unaware of these effects or indifferent to… View Summary +
This paper, on electric power sector reforms and China’s development, was presented at the Energy Strategy and Technology for Sustainable Development Session of the International Conference on Engineering and Technological Science in Beijing, China. The goal of the paper is… View Summary +
This Issuesletter examines the critical role state regulators play both in forming and establishing the operating rules of RTOs — issues that will affect the reliability, price and environmental impacts and of power supply in every region. View Summary +