Recently added articles from The Energy Journal:

The impact of climate policies on the operation of a thermal power plant.

Apr 01, 2008; Rosnes, Orvika ... Climate policy measures aimed at power markets influence the cost structure of producers and price patterns, and are therefore likely to influence the production decision of power plants, even in the short run. When power plants have costs related to starting and stopping, decisions on ...

Estimating plant level energy efficiency with a stochastic frontier.

Apr 01, 2008; Boyd, Gale A. ... A common distinguishing feature of engineering models is that they explicitly represent best practice technologies, while parametric/statistical models represent average practice. It is more useful to energy management or goal setting to have a measure of energy performance capable of ...

What drives natural gas prices?

Apr 01, 2008; Brown, Stephen P.A. ... For many years, fuel switching between natural gas and residual fuel oil kept natural gas prices closely aligned with those for crude oil. More recently, however, the number of U.S. facilities able to switch between natural gas and residual fuel oil has declined, and over the past seven ...

Modeling peak oil.

Apr 01, 2008; Holland, Stephen P. ... "Peak oil" refers to the future decline in world production of crude oil and to the accompanying potentially calamitous effects. The majority of the literature on peak oil is non-economic and ignores price effects even when analyzing policies. Unfortunately, most economic models of ...

Pollution and the price of power.

Apr 01, 2008; Dewees, Donald N. ... This study analyses the un-priced environmental harm caused by generating electricity from fossil fuels in the ECAR control region south of the Great Lakes in 2004 and again in 2015 when the recent Clean Air Interstate Rule will have its full effect. Using existing damage values, we ...

Impacts of responsive load in PJM: load shifting and real time pricing.

Apr 01, 2008; Spees, Kathleen ... In PJM, 15% of electric generation capacity ran less than 96 hours, 1.1% of the time, over 2006. If retail prices reflected hourly wholesale market prices, customers would shift consumption away from peak hours and installed capacity could drop. We use PJM data to estimate consumer and ...