IOWA UTILITIES BOARD ISSUES ORDER TO MIDWEST RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS V....

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 3, 2007 ;     559 words ......in part, with the determination of an avoided cost for IPL's purchase of wind energy from...2005, requested a determination of an avoided cost calculated at the time the obligation...petition to include a request to determine avoided cost based on a different method. However...

Do you have enough cost information to make good decisions?

Nonprofit World;  November 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......some alarming attitudes about cost information. Here survey resultsand ideas providing better cost information for no decision-making. Nonprofits...Victoria, B.C., Canada, what kind of cost information they collected, how they used...

BID FILED TO DECIDE 'AVOIDED COST' OF COGENERATION POWER

The Journal Record;  September 10, 1988 ;     178 words ......Corporation Commission to determine "avoided cost" was filed Friday by Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. of Oklahoma City. Avoided cost is the amount of money OG&E would...on what the utility company's avoided cost would be, in the event another...

Cost information in the new public-sector environment: cost accounting...

Australasian Business Intelligence;  December 19, 2005 ;     143 words ......via COMTEX) -- The use of cost information in an Australian teaching...examined. It was found that cost information is mainly utilised at higher...unproductive ways of using cost information were identified, as well...

BENCHMARKING THE PRICE REASONABLENESS OF A LONG-TERM ELECTRICITY CONTRACT*

Energy Law Journal;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......responsibilities of determining the utility's avoided cost and enforcing the utility's purchase...Decision 8507-022 stating that the total avoided cost was the difference between the utility...utility's per kilowatt hour (kWh) of avoided cost due to a QF purchase. If the QF price...

IOWA UTILITIES BOARD ISSUES ORDER TO MIDWEST RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS,...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 5, 2008 ;     364 words ......additional issues. 1. How should the avoided cost determinations be made for each of the...be applied to the determinations of avoided cost in this case. 3. What is the meaning...filed its petitions, what should the avoided cost be? Please provide all underlying assumptions...

SMITH FILES TESTIMONY FOR HEARING

The Journal Record;  September 20, 1988 ;     330 words ......costs. A hearing to determine "avoided cost" for the utility company is scheduled at the commission Oct 24. Avoided cost is the amount of money OG&E would...hearing on what the utility company's avoided cost would be, in the event another...

ON COGENERATION PROJECT - OG&E ASKS PANEL TO ORDER SMITH TO RELEASE...

The Journal Record;  May 18, 1988 ;     354 words ......the commission to determine the "avoided cost" associated with the project...need only concern itself with avoided cost as defined in the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978. Avoided cost is the cost the utility avoids...

Commercial consumers can take their pick.

Times of India (New Delhi, India);  January 17, 2005 ;     346 words ......to change their utility by paying an 'avoided cost'. This will be in the form of a surcharge...regulators met in Jharkhand to zero in on the avoided cost method to set the migration surcharge...purchase from such sources will be the 'avoided cost'. The final surcharge for migration...

COMMITTEE REPORTS HOLIDAY ENERGY CONSERVATION EFFORTS A SUCCESS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 7, 2006 ;     203 words ......the combined efforts resulted in an avoided cost of $359,000 for purchased electricity...year 2006 (Sep 1 through Dec 31, 2005), avoided cost from reduced consumption has totaled...of the prior year. $960,000 of this avoided cost was realized in December alone. The...

Cost information valued

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 17, 2003 ;     412 words ...Cost information valued Employees want to know health...consumers to seek more health care cost information than in the past, according to...In the survey, consumers said cost information was more important than information...

ANAEROBIC DIGESTER NEAR GOODING DAIRY WANTS TO SELL TO IDAHO POWER

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 17, 2008 ;     278 words ......project developers, called an "avoided cost rate," is determined and published by state commissions. The avoided cost rate is to be equal to the cost...purchase it from another source. The avoided cost rate that regulated utilities pay...

How Boeing tracks costs, A to Z. (includes related article)

Financial Executive;  November 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......internal customers clamored for better cost information, the company decided to empower its...department they weren't getting the cost information they needed to manage airplane design...a few cost elements. Further, the cost information we provided individual managers didn...

Coordination of non-utility generation through priority purchase...

The Energy Journal;  January 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......treated as homogeneous and paid a single avoided cost independent of the utilization characteristics...purchased.(1) * If the utility pays a peak avoided cost it is essentially comparing the NUG project to peaking equipment. But this avoided cost is only valid for a short period of...

ABC Trends in the Banking Sector: A Practitioner's Perspective

Journal of Performance Management;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......including banks - "have practically no cost information at all"'. Today, not only has ActivityBased...comprehensive and deep understanding of cost information as they strive to meet stakeholder...when presented in a transparent way, cost information forms a powerful tool in dialog ...