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Long run electricity pricing in a deregulated competitive electricity market
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995.
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Electricity and Other Dreams
<p>These are short stories where people who don't have very much lose some of what they have. This is a collection of fairy tales, magic realism, surrealism, and other kinds of wonder. In one, a man lives in beer cans until a little girl steals them to recycle. In another, a contractor in the …
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Renewable Electricity Support Policy
Renewable electricity (RES-E) is likely to play a major part in the reduction of Australia’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Because it is currently dearer than fossil-fuel-generated electricity, support mechanisms are needed to allow it to compete with fossil-fuel electricity. In the thesis I …
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Renewable Electricity Support Policy
Renewable electricity (RES-E) is likely to play a major part in the reduction of Australia’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Because it is currently dearer than fossil-fuel-generated electricity, support mechanisms are needed to allow it to compete with fossil-fuel electricity. In the thesis I …
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Chemical Looping Electricity Storage
… a relatively low capacity. In a pumped thermal electricity storage system, electricity is converted to heat using either an electrical heater or a heat pump. This heat is stored and converted back to electricity using a heat engine. In these storage schemes, heat is mostly stored as sensible …
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Adaptive electricity access planning
About 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to electricity and an additional 1 billion have unreliable access. The social ramifications of this problem are noteworthy because access to electric power has the potential to transform societies. While admirable efforts are underway, there is general …
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Dynamic relationships between sectoral electricity consumption, economic growth and electricity prices in South Africa
Dynamic relationships between sectoral electricity consumption, economic growth and electricity prices in South Africa The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamic relationship between the sectoral outputs, electricity supply and electricity price in South Africa within the endogenous growth …
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Decarbonizing the European electricity sector
… Capture, Transport, and Storage (CCTS) for the electricity and industry sector; the welfare maximizing quadratically constrained model ELMOD focuses on different trajectories for renewable energy sources (RES) and transmission grid expansions; and the equilibrium model ELCO combines the insights …
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Privatizing the Saudi electricity sector
Electricity demand in Saudi Arabia has been growing rapidly with an average peak demand growth rate of 6% over the past decade. Currently, the structure of the electricity industry is based on a monopoly framework dominated by a government owned utility company (Saudi Electric Company (SEC)). …
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Competitive Microgrid Electricity Market Design
… in United States as well as policy makers for electricity delivery in many countries. Microgrids have witnessed serious research activity in the past few years, especially in areas such as multi-agent system (MAS) architectures for microgrid control and auction algorithms for microgrid …
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Pool-based electricity market model for Malaysia electricity supply industry considering minimum generation capacity payment
Malaysia is improving its electricity supply industry to become more transparent, productive and competitive with the introduction of the single buyer market model. However, since the electricity demand is lower than the reserved capacity, the implementation of this market model does not provide …
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Economics of Renewable Electricity: Lessons for potential investors from the California and Texas Electricity Markets
… and differences between the California and Texas electricity markets from a regulatory standpoint. Each market has adopted unique policies to kickstart its green energy transition. While both regions have seen a predominant renewable penetration, they have also started to experience hurdles in …
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The theory and practice of electricity pricing policy : alternatives for the State Electricity Commission of Victoria
… influences of the environment within which an electricity undertaking operates can be incorporated into an economically efficient pricing policy. We have taken one undertaking, the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), and closely examined the outside influences on its pricing …
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The theory and practice of electricity pricing policy : alternatives for the State Electricity Commission of Victoria
… influences of the environment within which an electricity undertaking operates can be incorporated into an economically efficient pricing policy. We have taken one undertaking, the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), and closely examined the outside influences on its pricing …
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Investigating the potential for a user-driven electricity monitoring application to provide useful electricity consumption patterns
Conventional electricity usage monitoring involves complex data collection via costly and intrusive hardware installation. There is a perceived need for a simple and affordable tool that provides users with feedback about their electricity consumption without the hardware installation. This study …
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Three Essays on U.S. Electricity Policy
… to be an ongoing debate about the best design of electricity markets in the United States and this debate is complicated by important discussions about how the population should interact with those markets. At the same time our energy grid is moving towards larger, multi-state systems, technology …
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Integration of Liberalised European Electricity Markets
… thesis is to assess the integration of European electricity markets. An integrated market could help to improve security of supply, foster competition, and may also help to integrate renewables. After reviewing the literature and describing the context, three studies are reported as separate …
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Essays on Electricity and Sequential Auctions
"In the essay on electricity, we model the restructured wholesale electricity markets as oligopolies facing uncertain demand and ""capacity constraints"" in which each firm chooses as its strategy a ""supply function"" introduced by Klemperer and Meyer. To facilitate the computation of optimal …
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