Electric Power: Potential for Shortages in the 1990's : Hearings Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session ... July 23 and 25, 1985, Volume 4 |
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... RATE : 7 TO 8 PERCENT PER YEAR . ELECTRIC CAPACITY TO MEET THAT DEMAND COULD BE ADDED AT PREDICTABLE COST : PREDICTABLE COST OF CAPITAL , PREDICTABLE COST OF CONSTRUCTION , - - 4- PREDICTABLE TIME TO CONSTRUCT AND LICENSE , 23.
... RATE : 7 TO 8 PERCENT PER YEAR . ELECTRIC CAPACITY TO MEET THAT DEMAND COULD BE ADDED AT PREDICTABLE COST : PREDICTABLE COST OF CAPITAL , PREDICTABLE COST OF CONSTRUCTION , - - 4- PREDICTABLE TIME TO CONSTRUCT AND LICENSE , 23.
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... capital costs in the early years of operation . Real prices for pipeline imports at the border are projected to decrease until they equal the marginal price for lower - 48 production . Thereafter , they increase with the marginal price ...
... capital costs in the early years of operation . Real prices for pipeline imports at the border are projected to decrease until they equal the marginal price for lower - 48 production . Thereafter , they increase with the marginal price ...
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... capital stock . Hence the data include a complicated overlay of adjustments to the price shocks of 1972 and 1980 coupled with the movements in the business cycle . This slow adjustment and succession of shocks make particularly ...
... capital stock . Hence the data include a complicated overlay of adjustments to the price shocks of 1972 and 1980 coupled with the movements in the business cycle . This slow adjustment and succession of shocks make particularly ...
Page 103
... capital stock . Hence a change in fuel and energy efficiencies will unfold slowly as we build new homes or refurbish old factories . Given sharp changes in relative prices , such as we have experienced in the last decade , improvements ...
... capital stock . Hence a change in fuel and energy efficiencies will unfold slowly as we build new homes or refurbish old factories . Given sharp changes in relative prices , such as we have experienced in the last decade , improvements ...
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... capital costs ) that contribute to electric and nonelectric prices . In this way we could represent both the uncertainty in key inputs and the principal correlation ( through oil prices ) that will affect all energy costs . For our base ...
... capital costs ) that contribute to electric and nonelectric prices . In this way we could represent both the uncertainty in key inputs and the principal correlation ( through oil prices ) that will affect all energy costs . For our base ...
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Page 369 - The retrospective aspects of legislation, as well as the prospective aspects, must meet the test of due process, and the justifications for the latter may not suffice for the former.
Page 368 - A retrospective law is one that relates back to, and gives to a previous transaction some different legal effect from that which it had under the law when it transpired.
Page 369 - We begin our analysis with the recognition that: " '[i]t is by now well established that legislative Acts adjusting the burdens and benefits of economic life come to the Court with a presumption of constitutionality, and that the burden is on one complaining of a due process violation to establish that the legislature has acted in an arbitrary and irrational way.
Page 475 - Network MAPP Mid-Continent Area Power Pool NPCC Northeast Power Coordinating Council SERC Southeastern Electric Reliability Council SPP Southwest Power Pool wscc Western Systems Coordinating Council...
Page 475 - ... adequacy and security. Adequacy is the ability of the electric system to supply the aggregate electrical demand and energy requirements of the customers at all times, taking into account scheduled and unscheduled outages of system facilities.
Page 83 - Chairman of the Public Policy Program, and Director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In addition, I am a Director of Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett, Inc. (PHB), an economic and management consulting firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Page 369 - But our cases are clear that legislation readjusting rights and burdens is not unlawful solely because it upsets otherwise settled expectations. * * * This is true even though the effect of the legislation is to impose a new duty or liability based on past acts.
Page 475 - RELIABILITY, in a bulk power electric system, is the degree to which the performance of the elements of that system results in power being delivered to consumers within accepted standards and in the amount desired. The degree of reliability may be measured by the frequency, duration, and magnitude of adverse effects on consumer sen/ice.
Page 367 - Petitioners alleged that respondents had thereby taken their property without due process of law and without just compensation in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
Page 681 - NOTICE This statement is not available for public release until it is delivered at 10:00 am (EOT), Thursday, October 7, 1993.