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Introduction
David Hurlbut currently works at the Strategic Energy Analysis Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory. David does research in Public Policy, Law and Economics and Energy Economics. His recent book is Creative Destruction and the Electric Utility of the Future.
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This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding how the power sector is changing. It draws on the author's on-the-ground experience as a market monitor with the Public Utilities Commission of Texas, his experience as a senior analyst with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and his previous academic work. The book develops two mai...
This presentation and associated spreadsheet examine the level of cross-state renewable energy transactions. Most state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) policies allow for out-of-state renewable energy or renewable energy certificates to count towards compliance. This analysis focuses on compliance for 2012 and provides stakeholders with an under...
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This report describes the work conducted in support of the Eastern Interconnection States’ Planning Council (EISPC) Energy Zones Study and the development of the Energy Zones Mapping Tool performed by a team of experts from three National Laboratories. The multi-laboratory effort was led by Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne), in collaboration wi...
This report provides a baseline description of the transmission issues affecting geothermal technologies. The report begins with a comprehensive overview of the grid, how it is planned, how it is used, and how it is paid for. The report then overlays onto this 'big picture' three types of geothermal technologies: conventional hydrothermal systems;...
In January 2012, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory delivered to the Department of the Interior the first part of a study on Navajo Generating Station (Navajo GS) and the likely impacts of BART compliance options. That document establishes a comprehensive baseline for the analysis of clean energy alternatives, and their ability to achieve ben...
Pursuant to the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in 2009 its intent to issue rules for controlling emissions from Navajo Generating Station that could affect visibility at the Grand Canyon and at several other national parks and wilderness areas. The final rule will conform to what EPA determines is the best a...
This report is a primer for solar developers who wish to engage directly in expediting the regulatory process and removing market barriers related to policy and planning. Market barriers unrelated to technology often limit the expansion of utility-scale solar power, even in areas with exceptional resource potential. Many of these non-technical barr...
Integrating wind generation into power systems and wholesale electricity markets presents unique challenges due to the characteristics of wind power, including its limited dispatchability, variability in generation, difficulty in forecasting resource availability, and the geographic location of wind resources. Texas has had to deal with many of the...
This report examines the balance between the demand and supply of new renewable electricity in the United States on a regional basis through 2015. It expands on a 2007 NREL study that assessed the supply and demand balance on a national basis. As with the earlier study, this analysis relies on estimates of renewable energy supplies compared to dema...
This chapter provides an overview of how market power can be exercised and how effective market monitoring can prevent abusing practices. It elaborates what market power means in the particular context of wholesale electricity markets. It provides a review of the reasons why antitrust law is not always applicable to restructured electricity markets...
A renewable portfolio standard (RPS - a statutory requirement to achieve a renewable energy goal by a certain date - is the tool of choice for many state policy makers concerned about climate change and the role played by electric generation. Texas enacted its RPS in 1999; since that time, it has added the most renewable capacity of any state and h...
On Sept. 13, 2006, the Public Utility Commission of Texas put into effect a new Resource Adequacy and Market Power Rule which establishes an Energy-Only resource adequacy mechanism in the ERCOT electricity market, relaxes the $1,000 per MWh offer cap, and replaced existing market mitigation procedures with more market transparency and prompt inform...
An automatic mitigation procedure called the Competitive Solution Method offers a way of guarding against price gouging while keeping the door open to appropriate scarcity rents and price signals.
The trade dispute over intellectual property protection descended on the 1992 World Conference on Environment and Development in Brazil at an awkward time. Persistent and intractable, the controversy confounded negotiations on the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity to such an extent that if left the treaty little more than an impotent desidera...
The State Clean Energy Policies Analysis (SCEPA) project is supported by the Weatherization and Intergovernmental Program within the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. This project seeks to quantify the impacts of existing state policies, and to identify crucial policy attributes and their potential applicabili...
Colorado has more renewable energy potential than it is ever likely to need for its own in-state electricity consumption. Such abundance may suggest an opportunity for the state to sell renewable power elsewhere, but Colorado faces considerable competition from other western states that may have better resources and easier access to key markets on...