Production V. Conservation in the Utility Industry: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, April 3, 1981 |
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... risks to an even more intractable level . The conventional wisdom of the industry and , until recently , of most financial analysts holds that the utilities would be healthy but for an unfavorable regulatory climate that gives them ...
... risks to an even more intractable level . The conventional wisdom of the industry and , until recently , of most financial analysts holds that the utilities would be healthy but for an unfavorable regulatory climate that gives them ...
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... risk of not being made whole . Would commonly proposed measures to boost cash - flow correct its instabil- ity ? No. For example , putting construction work in progress ( CWIP ) into the rate base gives price elasticity longer to work ...
... risk of not being made whole . Would commonly proposed measures to boost cash - flow correct its instabil- ity ? No. For example , putting construction work in progress ( CWIP ) into the rate base gives price elasticity longer to work ...
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... risk of going broke by building more plants than they can pay for . New construction , having failed the investment - balancing test , is no longer hemorrhaging cash . e . All marginal investment opportunities to provide energy services ...
... risk of going broke by building more plants than they can pay for . New construction , having failed the investment - balancing test , is no longer hemorrhaging cash . e . All marginal investment opportunities to provide energy services ...
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... risk can be greatly reduced and their cash - flow markedly improved by abandon- ing partly built power stations in favor of efficiency / renewables invest- ments is E. Kahn et al.'s " Commercialization of Solar Energy by Regulated ...
... risk can be greatly reduced and their cash - flow markedly improved by abandon- ing partly built power stations in favor of efficiency / renewables invest- ments is E. Kahn et al.'s " Commercialization of Solar Energy by Regulated ...
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... risk of global climatic change , can be minimized by economically efficient energy policies based on very efficient energy use and rapid deployment of appropriate renewable energy sources . Such policies can stabilize the rate of ...
... risk of global climatic change , can be minimized by economically efficient energy policies based on very efficient energy use and rapid deployment of appropriate renewable energy sources . Such policies can stabilize the rate of ...
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Page 83 - This position has been supported by a number of recently completed studies, such as that of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Nuclear and Alternative Energy Systems (CONAES...
Page 172 - The lines extending from the upper left-hand corner to the lower right-hand corner of the chart are these constant-capacity lines.
Page 84 - For all these reasons, if nuclear power were clean, safe, economic, assured of ample fuel, and socially benign per se, it would still be unattractive because of the political implications of the kind of energy economy it would lock us into.
Page 54 - Annual Review of Overall Reliability and Adequacy of the North American Bulk Power System", August 1980; Electric Power Research Institute "1981-1985 Overview Strategy", October 1980.
Page 60 - In an electrical world, your lifeline comes not from an understandable neighborhood technology run by people you know who are at your own social level, but rather from an alien, remote, and perhaps humiliatingly uncontrollable technology run by a faraway, bureaucratized, technical elite who have probably never heard of you.
Page 108 - ... the risks. In this context Working Group 5 estimates that the diversion risks encountered in the various stages of the FBR fuel cycle present no greater difficulties than in the case of the LWR with the U-Pu cycle, or even in the case of the oncethrough cycle, in the long term.
Page 60 - Finally, as national purpose and trust in institutions diminish, governments, striving to halt the drift, seek ever more outward control. We are becoming more uneasily aware of the nascent risk of what a Stanford Research Institute group has called ". . . 'friendly fascism' — a managed society which rules by a faceless and widely dispersed complex of warfare-welfare-industrial-communications-police bureaucracies with a technocratic ideology.
Page 127 - ... as if demand were homogeneous. In fact, there are many different types of energy whose different prices and qualities suit them to different uses. It is the uses that matter: people want comfort and light, not raw kilowatt-hours. Assuming (as we do) equal convenience and reliability to the user, the objective should be to supply the amount and type of energy that will do each task most cheaply.
Page 97 - Executive Summary: The Commission withdraws any explicit or implicit past endorsement of the Executive Summary. The Peer Review Process: The Commission agrees that the peer review process followed in publishing WASH-1400 was inadequate and that proper peer review is fundamental to making sound, technical decisions. The Commission will take whatever corrective action is necessary to assure that effective peer...
Page 124 - De facto moratoria on reactor ordering exist today in the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Ireland, and probably the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan and Canada. Nuclear power has been indefinitely deferred or abandoned in Austria, Denmark, Norway, Iran, China, Australia and New Zealand. Nuclear power elsewhere is in grave difficulties. Only in centrally planned economies, notably France and the USSR, is bureaucratic power sufficient to override,...