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Retail Choice Experiments: Comparing Early-AdopterExperience

Description: This paper reviews the experience with retail choice of non-residential electricity customers during the period from early 1998 through the first few months of 2000. Key findings include: (1) customers in California received a significantly smaller discount from utility tariffs than customers in other competitive markets; (2) this sample of large commercial/industrial customers believed they were benefiting significantly more from commodity savings from contracts with retail electricity service… more
Date: March 1, 2003
Creator: Golove, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Operation of Distributed Generation Under Stochastic Prices

Description: We model the operating decisions of a commercial enterprisethatneeds to satisfy its periodic electricity demand with either on-sitedistributed generation (DG) or purchases from the wholesale market. Whilethe former option involves electricity generation at relatively high andpossibly stochastic costs from a set of capacity-constrained DGtechnologies, the latter implies unlimited open-market transactions atstochastic prices. A stochastic dynamic programme (SDP) is used to solvethe resulting opti… more
Date: November 30, 2005
Creator: Siddiqui, Afzal S. & Marnay, Chris
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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