Electricity cost modeling calculations / / Monica Greer
| Electricity cost modeling calculations / / Monica Greer |
| Autore | Greer Monica |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Burlington, MA, : Academic Press/Elsevier, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (359 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.79 |
| Soggetto topico |
Electric utilities - United States - Costs - Mathematical models
Electric utilities - Rates - Estimates - United States Electric power consumption - United States - Forecasting - Mathematics Electric power-plants - Load - Mathematical models |
| ISBN |
1-282-76992-8
9786612769924 0-08-096135-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Electricity Cost Modeling Calculations; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Some Basic Economic Theory; A New Regulatory Paradigm; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1. The marginal cost pricing doctrine; 1.2. A brief overview of the u.s. electric market; 1.3. Reducing carbon emissions; 1.4. Internalizing the cost of reducing carbon emissions; 1.5. Optimal rate or tariff design and tax credits to promote efficient use of energy and a reduction in carbon emissions; 1.6. Conclusion; Chapter 2: The Theory of Natural Monopoly; 2.1. The natural monopoly conundrum
2.2. For a single-output market2.3. Literature review-economies of scale in generation: single-output models; 2.4. For a multiple-output natural monopoly; 2.5. Electricity as a multiple-output industry and economies of scope and subadditivity; 2.6. Economies of vertical integration and separability; 2.7. Relevant literature review-vertical integration and separability; 2.8. Conclusion; Chapter 3: The U.S. Electric Markets, Structure, and Regulations; 3.1. The U.S. electric industry structure; 3.2. Regulation of the electric utility industry; 3.3. State regulations 3.4. The future of the electric industryChapter 4: The Economics (and Econometrics) of Cost Modeling; 4.1. The general cost model; 4.2. The econometrics of cost modeling: an overview; 4.3. A brief history of cost models and applications to the electric industry; 4.4. Appendix; 4.5. Exercises; Chapter 5: Case Study: Breaking up Bells; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. The natural monopoly conundrum; 5.3. Breaking up bell: the case of AT&T; 5.4. Economies of vertical integration: an argument for natural monopoly?; 5.5. Parallels between telephony and electricity; 5.6. Lessons to be learned 5.7. ConclusionChapter 6: Cost Models; 6.1. The determination of an appropriate objective function: a brief overview of the literature; 6.2. Flexible functional forms; 6.3. Multiproduct cost functions; 6.4. Measures of efficiency for multiple-output models; 6.5. Chapter conclusion; 6.6. End of chapter exercises: multiple-output cost models; 6.7. Appendix: proofs; Chapter 7: Case Study: Can Rural ElectricCooperatives Survive in aRestructured U.S. Electric Market?An Empirical Analysis; 7.1. Abstract; 7.2. Introduction; 7.3. Literature Review; 7.4. Cost Models 7.5. Implications for Public Policy7.6. Conclusion; Chapter 8: A Test of Vertical Economies for Non-Vertically Integrated Firms: The Case of Rural Electric Cooperatives; 8.1. Abstract; 8.2. Introduction; 8.3. Background: rural electric cooperatives; 8.4. Reasons that cooperatively owned utilities are different; 8.5. Literature review; 8.6. Data; 8.7. Methodology; 8.8. Preliminary results-all coops; 8.9. Economies of vertical integration; 8.10. Estimation results; 8.11. Tests for vertical integration; 8.12. Conclusion; Chapter 9: Load Forecasting-The ""Demand"" for Electricity 9.1. What is forecasting? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911004746203321 |
Greer Monica
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| Burlington, MA, : Academic Press/Elsevier, c2011 | ||
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Utility cost estimation model development and decisions for the 2015 American Housing Survey and beyond / / George R. Carter III, Brian Shaffer
| Utility cost estimation model development and decisions for the 2015 American Housing Survey and beyond / / George R. Carter III, Brian Shaffer |
| Autore | Carter George R., III |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (52 pages) : color illustrations |
| Collana | 2015 AHS redesign paper |
| Soggetto topico |
Electric utilities - United States - Costs - Mathematical models
Housing - Costs - Mathematical models |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910706196503321 |
Carter George R., III
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| [Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, , 2017 | ||
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