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Price allocation guidelines January 1980: Low-cost solar array project

Description: The price allocation guidelines (PAG) are an integrated set of specific cost targets for several task areas within the Low-cost Solar Array (LSA) Project. PAG is a working tool of LSA Project management designed to provide consistent and meaningful guidelines for costs of polycrystalline silicon material, sheet, cells, encapsulants, and module manufacturing. It is expected that advanced photovoltaic concepts derived from industry and the research community can be developed so that it will be po… more
Date: January 15, 1980
Creator: Aster, R. W.
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Filling the strategic petroleum reserve: its price and economic effects

Description: The estimated movements of the economic indicators under the 1989 target plan (with no OPEC retaliation) are small and could be considered almost negligible when viewed against the size of the economy and the error properties inherent in the macroeconomic model. Therefore, it cannot be firmly stated that a significant loss in real output and increases in inflation and unemployment occur in filling the Reserve. Accelerating the fill rate to meet the 1985 Target (without OPEC retaliation) could i… more
Date: March 1, 1980
Creator: Paul, E.S.
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Optimization of distribution transformer efficiency characteristics. Final report, March 1979

Description: A method for distribution transformer loss evaluation was derived. The total levalized annual cost method was used and was extended to account properly for conditions of energy cost inflation, peak load growth, and transformer changeout during the evaluation period. The loss costs included were the no-load and load power losses, no-load and load reactive losses, and the energy cost of regulation. The demand and energy components of loss costs were treated separately to account correctly for the… more
Date: June 1, 1980
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Impact of solar-energy development: the aggregate impact on basic economic objectives

Description: Two categories of incentives for the development of solar energy are described: those that increase the benefits associated with the ownership of a solar energy system and those that reduce the cost of the system. The impact of two alternative (or complementary) programs are presented. The discussion distinguishes between short-run (one to five years) and long-run (over five years) impacts expected to result from the installation of passive solar designs on existing housing stock. Impacts assoc… more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Parker, A.; Kirschner, C. & Roach, F.
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Integration of hydrothermal energy economics related quantitative studies

Description: An evaluation of the existing hydrothermal energy economics related quantitative studies is provided. The objective is to present the similarities and differences in methodology and assumptions, and explain the impact of these differences on the energy price estimates. A brief summary of the study categories, economic evaluation methodology, technical and economic assumptions and major outputs of the studies is presented. The relative importance and the likely effects of the most important tech… more
Date: October 1, 1982
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Cost of Federal tax credit programs to develop the market for industrial solar and wind energy technologies. Final report to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, University of California. Volume 2: appendices

Description: A study was made to estimate the impact tax credits (from Acts passed by Congress) would have on renewable energy investment and to estimate the net costs to the US Treasury of providing these tax credits. The appendices to this study are presented. Some investment and marketing penetration worksheets are presented on wind turbines, solar ponds, flat plates, evacuated tubes, and parabolic troughs. A market penetration and economic analysis program with test written for TI-59 programmable calcul… more
Date: November 12, 1981
Creator: Downey, W.T.; Carey, H.; Dlott, E.; Frantzis, L.; McDonald, M.; Myer, L. et al.
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Photovoltaic subsystem marketing and distribution model: programming manual. Final report

Description: Complete documentation of the marketing and distribution (M and D) computer model is provided. The purpose is to estimate the costs of selling and transporting photovoltaic solar energy products from the manufacturer to the final customer. The model adjusts for the inflation and regional differences in marketing and distribution costs. The model consists of three major components: the marketing submodel, the distribution submodel, and the financial submodel. The computer program is explained in… more
Date: July 1982
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No hair theorem for inhomogeneous cosmologies

Description: We show that under very general conditions any inhomogeneous cosmological model with a positive cosmological constant, that can be described in a synchronous reference system will tend asymptotically in time towards the de Sitter solution. This is shown to be relevant in the context of inflationary models as it makes inflation very weakly dependent on initial conditions. 8 refs.
Date: March 1, 1986
Creator: Jensen, L.G. & Stein-Schabes, J.A.
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Case-study application of venture analysis: the integrated energy utility. Volume 2. Technical report

Description: Application of venture analysis would, at a minimum, need to address issues involving careful definition of the product/service being considered; market needs that the product will satisfy; investment/manufacturing costs; minimum selling price needed to achieve desired ROI or other financial measure; market potential at relevant prices; potential for competitors to obsolete the product before investment is recovered; assessment of companies' resources and capabilities to supply the product… more
Date: November 1, 1978
Creator: Fein, E; Gordon, T J; King, R; Kropp, F G; Shuchman, H L; Stover, J et al.
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Brookhaven integrated energy/economy modeling system and its use in conservation policy analysis

Description: The approach used at BNL to model the impact of the introduction of advanced energy technologies in response to increased energy prices has been to link econometric, process, and input-output models. The econometric model generates growth, employment, productivity, inflation, final demand, and price-determined input-output coefficients for a ten-sector interindustry model. The outputs from the six energy sectors are used to drive a national energy process model which supplies energy prices, fue… more
Date: July 1, 1979
Creator: Groncki, P.J. & Marcuse, W.
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Railroad electrification in America's future: an assessment of prospects and impacts. Final report

Description: Such considerations as the level of traffic, the relative financial health of individual railroads, the capacity of the associated supply and engineering/construction industries, and the logical connecting points at classifying yards, as well as the national interest value of creating a continuous system, continental in scope, were used to construct a scenario for railroad electrification that closely approximates how an electrification program might be implemented. For the economic reasons cit… more
Date: January 1, 1980
Creator: White, R. K.; Yabroff, I. W.; Dickson, E. M.; Zink, R. A.; Gray, M. E. & Moon, A. E.
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The Depreciating Dollar: Economic Effects and Policy Response

Description: This report discusses the trend of depreciation of the dollar since 2002. This raises concern among some in Congress and the public that the dollar's decline is a symptom of broader economic problems, such as a weak economic recovery, rising public debt, and a diminished standing in the global economy. However, a falling currency is not always a problem, but possibly an element of economic adjustments that are, on balance, beneficial to the economy.
Date: April 15, 2011
Creator: Elwell, Craig K.
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Industrial Sector Technology Use Model (ISTUM): industrial energy use in the United States, 1974-2000. Volume 1: primary model documentation, Book 2, Chapters IV, V, VI, and VII

Description: The Industrial Sector Technology Use Model provides a single framework for integrating all of the information and analysis into a set of predictions of industrial energy use. Given this volume of information which must be considered, this requires a set of computerized engineering-economic models. The design of these models is the subject of Chapter IV. The environmental factors in ISTUM are developed and presented in Chapter V. Chapter VI discusses the work accomplished by DATA Resources, Inc.… more
Date: June 19, 1978
Creator: Bohn, R.E. & Herod, J.S.
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Taxonomy of energy taxes. [By states]

Description: This report provides the US DOE with a taxonomy of the direct Federal, state, and local taxes that differentially affect energy markets, including features of general taxes that affect energy differentially; and describes some of the important analytical questions associated with the taxes included in the taxonomy. First, the report discusses energy taxation within the broad context of energy production and use. The second part includes the formal taxonomy and a detailed breakdown of energy tax… more
Date: September 1, 1979
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Comparison of two procedures for evaluating the economics of industrial power plants

Description: This report compares two economic-evaluation procedures that are commonly used to evaluate engineering alaternatives for industrial power plants. the procedures are: discounted cash flow analysis (e.g., present worth and internal rate of return) and the revenue requirement method. The former procedure tends to be used by nonregulated, for-profit companies, while the latter is widely accepted in regulated utilities. Each analytical procedure is the same, namely, a conceptually sound assessment o… more
Date: August 1, 1979
Creator: Sullivan, W. G.
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Effect of inflation on anisotropic cosmologies

Description: The effects of anisotropic cosmologies on inflation are studied. By properly formulating the field equations it is possible to show that any model that undergoes sufficient inflation will become isotropic on scales greater than the horizon today. Furthermore, we shall show that it takes a very long time for anisotropies to become visible in the observable part of the Universe. It is interesting to note that the time scale will be independent of the Bianchi Model and of the initial anisotropy. 6… more
Date: March 1, 1986
Creator: Jensen, L.G. & Stein-Schabes, J.A.
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SU(N,1) inflation

Description: We present a simple model for primordial inflation in the context of SU(N,1) no-scale n = 1 supergravity. Because the model at zero temperature very closely resembles global supersymmetry, minima with negative cosmological constants do not exist, and it is easy to have a long inflationary epoch while keeping density perturbations of the right magnitude and satisfying other cosmological constraints. We pay specific attention to satisfying the thermal constraint for inflation, i.e., the existence… more
Date: November 1, 1984
Creator: Ellis, J.; Enqvist, K.; Nanopoulos, D. V.; Olive, K. A. & Srednicki, M.
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Topics in inflationary cosmologies

Description: Several aspects of inflationary cosmologies are discussed. An introduction to the standard hot big bang cosmological model is reviewed, and some of the problems associated with it are presented. A short review of the proposals for solving the cosmological conundrums of the big bang model is presented. Old and the new inflationary scenarios are discussed and shown to be unacceptable. Some alternative scenarios especially those using supersymmetry are reviewed briefly. A study is given of inflati… more
Date: April 1, 1986
Creator: Mahajan, S.
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Double Inflation

Description: The Zel'dovich spectrum of adiabatic density perturbations is a generic prediction of inflation. There is increasing evidence that when the spectrum is normalized by observational data on small scales, there is not enough power on large scales to account for the observed large-scale structure in the Universe. Decoupling the spectrum on large and small scales could solve this problem. As a means of decoupling the large and small scales we propose double inflation (i.e., two episodes of inflation… more
Date: April 1, 1986
Creator: Silk, J. & Turner, M. S.
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Grid-Connected Integrated Community Energy System. Final Report, August 9, 1977--March 22, 1978. Volume I, Phase II. [Clark University]

Description: Clark University represents an attractive site for demonstration of cogeneration. The results of Phase I are briefly reviewed. This report provides an update on issues that were incompletely resolved in the Phase I report. Section 2 provides additional documentation on institutional issues involved in the proposed demonstration. Section 3 provides a preliminary design analysis that clearly defines the choice of engine and provides revised operating data in light of additional load profile studi… more
Date: January 1, 1978
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Impacts of oil disturbances: lessons from experience. [1973-1974 Oil Crisis; 1978-1979 Iranian Revolution; 1980-1981 Iran-Iraq War]

Description: An analysis of the impacts of previous oil distrubances can be used to suggest the impacts of future oil disturbances. This paper reviews how the 1973-1974 Oil Crisis, the 1978-1979 Iranian Revolution, and the 1980-1981 Iran-Iraq War impacted the US and world oil markets. Various measures of impacts are considered, such as impacts on physical flows of crude and products, crude and product price changes on the US and world markets, impacts on stocks of crude and products, and impacts on refiners… more
Date: January 1, 1983
Creator: Curlee, T R
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Low-income energy assistance programs: a profile of need and policy options

Description: This second report of the Fuel Oil Marketing Advisory Committee (FOMAC) of DOE is twofold: to update information on the energy needs of low-income persons and governmental response to such needs; and to emphasize the need for energy-conservation programs that may alleviate the enormous financial burden placed on low-income people by rising energy prices. FOMAC has continued to develop further and refine its initial energy-conservation recommendations. Mainly, the updated assessment document fin… more
Date: July 1, 1980
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Energy conservation in grain (corn) drying with combination high-temperature, low-temperature methods. Final report, July 1, 1978-September 30, 1980

Description: Field drying experiments were carried out during the 1975 through 1978 harvest seasons at the University of Minnesota Rosemount Experiment Station. Several combination drying experiments were conducted each season along with a control (conventional drying) experiment. Based on the results of the field experiments, comparisons of energy requirements for combination and conventional drying were made. Performance of the low-temperature, in-storage phase of combination drying was evaluated using co… more
Date: January 1, 1981
Creator: Morey, R. V.; Gustafson, R. J.; Cloud, H. A. & Walter, K. L.
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