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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Least Cost Planning"”.
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Das Minimalkostenprinzip
… von Infrastrukturinvestitionen auf. Wie das Least-Cost Planning löst das daraus entwickelte Prinzip die Makro-Steuerungsdefizite durch eine komplexitätsreduzierende Mikroperspektive auf. Es fragt danach, ob die durch eine Infrastruktur zu erbringenden Dienstleistungen nicht auf andere Weise …
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The potential use of 35mm aerial photography in planning a selective mechanized thinning
… accumulating a full load. Productivities and costs of felling, bunching, and skidding per cord of wood were evaluated with computer simulations for three thinning procedures. The costs of planning the thinning by ground methods and photos were compared so that the least cost planning and …
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A planning paradigm for electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa : a case study of Tanzania
… large-scale grid systems conceived through least-cost-planning; and decentralized, small-scale off-grid systems administered through entrepreneurial pilots. My thesis offers a new paradigm, a mid-scale opportunistic and pluralistic planning paradigm, to address the dynamic economic, social, …
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In the balance: Electricity, sustainability and least cost competition
… sustainability by reconciling the principles of least cost planning with the competitive electricity industry. The thesis proposes a novel balanced approach of ‘least cost competition’. Least cost competition aims to encourage both more effective competition in delivering energy services, and …
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Empirical evidence of utility sponsored conservation programs
… to purchasers of high-efficiency appliances. The costs of these conservation programs are then passed-on to all customers as increased energy prices. Economic theory predicts that the income and substitution affects should decrease the consumption of non-participants in the programs and may …