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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"windpower"”.
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Federal giants and wind energy entrepreneurs: utility-scale windpower in America 1970-1990
… have prepared a fertile niche for utility-scale windpower. The introduction of "deregulatory," competitive principles onto the electric industry fostered a non-utility generating sector relying on unconventional technologies. Simultaneously, policy-makers using "hyper-regulatory" tactics to …
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Risk penalties for enhanced reliability in co-optimized markets with uncertain generation
With increasing proportion of windpower, an important concern is that of maintaining the reliability of the electric grid in the face of higher supply-side volatility. In this paper, we examine the role of risk-based penalties in developing alternate designs in which firms combine energy bids …
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Nature and the Social Sciences : Examples from the Electricity and Waste Sectors
… housing organizations, energy companies, a windpower cooperative, and households. The challenges of providers are divided into making visible, making acceptable, and making doable, based on both material and socio-political characteristics of the sectors. Households, in turn, face the …