Least-cost Utility Planning Handbook for Public Utility Commissioners
Author: National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 61
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 61
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Urban Consortium Energy Task Force
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 119
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 734
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Securities
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 644
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: A. de Almeida
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 9401110549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the mid-seventies, electric utilities were faced with escalating construction costs, growing environmental plus siting constraints and increasing uncertainty in demand forecasting. To cope with the increasing demand for energy services, utilities can either invest in supply-side options (new generation, transmission and distribution facilities) or in demand-side options. Demand-side options include, policies, programmes, innovative pricing schemes and high-efficiency end-use equipment (equipment providing the same or better level of services but using less energy or peak power). Recent experience in both North America and Europe show that demand-side options are usually cheaper and less damaging from the environmental point of view, and also their potential can be tapped in a shorter term than other supply-side options. This workshop was directed at the discussion and analysis of cost-effective methodologies to achieve the supply of electric energy services at minimum cost and minimum environmental impact. The programme included new developments in power planning models which can integrate both supply-side and demand-side actions. Quantitative assessments of the environmental impact of different supply-demand strategies were analyzed. Planning models which deal with uncertainty and use multicriteria approaches were presented. Case studies and experiments with, innovative concepts carried out by utilities in several countries were discussed. Load modelling and evaluation of demad-side programmes was analyzed. Additionally, the potential for electricity savings in the industrial, commercial and residential sectors was presented. New research directions covering planning models, programmes and end-use technologies were identified.
Author: Jørgen S. Nørgård
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9401150923
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The rather young field of research into electricity savings is attracting increasing attention since low electricity consumption is a vital component of environmentally sustainable development. The potential benefits from using less electricity, without sacrificing quality of life, are immense, as the book shows with case studies from Eastern and Western Europe and the USA. Saving electricity means that the expense of constructing scores of power plants can be saved, and that their economic and environmental impact will vanish. Audience: Can be read with profit by any graduate. Suitable as a reference work for Master's and Doctoral students, as well as for others working on environmental issues in general and electricity savings in particular.
Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1992-06-18
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1349124982
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Decision-aiding software is applied in this book to government, personal decisions, law, teaching, decision-analysis research, cross-national decision-making, business and politics.
Author: A. A. M. Sayigh
Publisher: Newnes
Published: 2012-12-02
Total Pages: 750
ISBN-13: 0323161995
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Renewable Energy: Technology and the Environment comprises 106 chapters, with the first focusing on integrated resource planning. The following chapters delve into such topics as electricity from geothermal energy; wave energy prospects and prototypes; renewable energy policies for the nineties and beyond; and renewable energy technologies in developing countries. These topics are followed by discussions on harnessing the tax system to benefit alternative energy; energy-meteorology; development energy and environment; solar energy education; solar hydrogen; sky brightness during twilight; and solar instrumentation used in meteorology. Other chapters cover self-acting system tracking for pyrheliometers; directly coupled turbine-induction generator systems for low-cost micro-hydro power; and the utilization of genetic algorithm for the optimal design of a pneumatic hydro-power device. The remaining chapters present field experiments of a wave power converter with caisson breakwater; technical potentials of renewable energies; and air pollution modification due to energy supply diversification. This book will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of meteorology and environmental studies.