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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Utility industry"”.
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Supply Chain Sustainability Opportunities in the Utility Industry
… this push, National Grid, an investor-owned utility operating in the United States and United Kingdom, released its Responsible Business Charter (RBC) in October 2020, outlining how the business as a whole would approach creating more sustainable business practices in the areas of …
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Stochastic unit commitment in a deregulated electric utility industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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Proposals for a restructured California state electric service utility industry
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Resource Planning For Geographic Information System Implementation in the Utility Industry
… the implementation histories of five GIS in the utility industry reveals common characteristics. Utilities can utilize resources more efficiently in the implementation of GIS by focusing on the following essential aspects: 1) plan for the successful implementation of the GIS, 2) plan for the GIS …
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Regulation and Technical Change in the Electric Utility Industry: 1948-1975
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:06:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004239.pdf: 6241691 bytes, checksum: 0888d50d31f290a0a831258324bc8be7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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How do CSR rating schemes influence corporate behavior? : lessons from the utility industry
… within organizations in the electric utility industry?" I sought to answer this question by conducting in-depth interviews with representatives of six companies in the electric utility sector about their reporting approach to the two most widely used rating schemes, the Carbon …
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Financial and regulatory considerations in capacity expansion planning for the electric utility industry
… in the capacity planning decision of an electric utility. Three important financial issues are choice of appropriate capital and fuel costs, effect of regulation and scarcity of capital. The first section of the dissertation is devoted to an overview of the electric utility industry and literature …
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A dynamic model for forecasting and policy making in the regulated electric utility industry
… and policy making in the regulated electric utility industry. Various scenarios are constructed by running the model under different assumptions and policies. In this way the behavior of the system is studied under different conditions and optimal policies are chosen. The scenarios present …
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Analysis of the efficiency of the electric utility industry during the period of 1954-1973
… of an analysis of the efficiency of the electric utility industry during 1954-1973 in the area related to energy, plant and equipment, profitability performance and solvency. Several models of ratio analysis are developed to measure the efficiency of all investor-owned electric utilities which are …
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Regulatory and Financial Aspects of the Utility Industry Rate Treatment of Construction Work in Progress
Growth in utility construction programs has focused attention on the methods used by utilities to obtain the earnings needed to pay investors for the use of funds for construction expenditures.
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Knowledge Requirements, Gaps and Learning Responses in Smart Grid Adoption: An Exploratory Study in U.S. Electric Utility Industry
<p>The U.S. electric utility industry is facing a number of challenges today, including aging infrastructure, growing customer demand, CO2 emissions, and increased vulnerability to overloads and outages. Utilities are under greater regulatory, societal and consumer pressure to provide a more …
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The effects of regulatory policy on the cost of equity capital and the value of equity in the electric utility industry.
Thesis. 1980. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.
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Determination of the Shelf Life of Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors.
… capacitor is used extensively in the electric utility industry. A factor limiting the storage of spare capacitors is the integrity of the aluminum oxide dielectric, which over time breaks down contributing to a shelf life currently estimated at one nuclear power electric generating station to …
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High speed dynamic simulation of power systems
… is transient stability software. In the changing utility industry, these tools will be relied on even more in the future, as transmission systems become more stressed. A problem with time domain transient stability simulations is that they often require large amounts of computer resources. Much …
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Regional Coordination in Electricity Supply and Investment Financing
… of determining optimum strategies for guiding utility industry investment planning in the face of: (1) anticipated changes in electricity rate structures; (2) the large number and high costs of various power generation activities; and (3) the corresponding large number, high costs and …
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Automated detection and prediction of electrical disturbances in a power transmission system
… becomes a higher priority in the electric utility industry, utilities simply do not have the required personnel to analyze the ever-growing amount of data by hand. This thesis presents an automated approach for the analysis of power quality phenomena within a power transmission system by …
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Economic feasibility analysis of photovoltaic installations in the Las Vegas Valley
… in new technologies and changes in electric utility industry. An economic feasibility study is conducted for photovolaic systems in both suburban areas and in remote locations using actual data collected by Nevada Power Company (NPC). With the present cost and cell efficiency, the study shows …
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A computer-aided fault analysis of the VPI electric service power distribution system
… basic circuit types that are in use in the utility industry today. The program provides results that are in tabular form for easy use. The VPI Electric Service system is discussed and results are included for the major distribution circuits in the system. System maps have been prepared for …
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Incentive Regulation with Benchmarking in the Electricity Distribution Industry
… accounting questions in the context of electric utility industry: How do regulators for electricity industry use the information generated from accounting systems to make pricing decisions? What are the economic consequences of these decisions? In Chapter 2, I review regulatory reforms and …
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Investment in nuclear generation in a restricted electricity market : an analysis of risks and financing options
Since the late 1970s, the US electric power industry has been undergoing major changes. The electric utility industry had mainly consisted of highly regulated, vertically integrated, local monopolies, providing customers with all electric services at rates determined by the state regulatory agency. …
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