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Methodology for assessing the impacts of alternative rate designs on industrial energy use. Draft report

Description: A task was undertaken to develop a method for analyzing industrial user responses to alternative rate designs. The method described considers the fuel switching and conservation responses of industrial users and the impact to a hypothetical utility regarding revenue stability, annual gas demand, and seasonal fluctuations. Twenty-seven hypothetical industrial plant types have been specified. For each combustor in the plant, the fuel consumption by season, initial fuel type, fuel switching costs,… more
Date: January 11, 1980
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fusion: A necessary component of US energy policy

Description: US energy policy must ensure that its security, its economy, or its world leadership in technology development are not compromised by failure to meet the nation's electrical energy needs. Increased concerns over the greenhouse effect from fossil-fuel combustion mean that US energy policy must consider how electrical energy dependence on oil and coal can be lessened by conservation, renewable energy sources, and advanced energy options (nuclear fission, solar energy, and thermonuclear fusion). I… more
Date: January 11, 1989
Creator: Correll, D.L. Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The February 21, 1993 tornadoes of East Tennessee

Description: A series of tornadoes struck the east Tennessee area on Sunday afternoon, February 21, 1993 around Knoxville, Lenoir City, and Oak Ridge causing millions of dollars worth of damage to both homes and businesses in the area, killing one, injuring a number of persons, and leaving a large area without power for many hours or even days due to damage to the local TVA transmission line network. One tornado touched down in the Department of Energy Oak Ridge Reservation near the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant, co… more
Date: August 11, 1993
Creator: Fricke, K. E. & Kornegay, F. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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