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[2010]
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The benefit-pricing approach is technology neutral--it would link sourcing decisions to true social costs without favoring one technology platform over another. It is different from traditional, least-cost pricing. Under the proposed plan, generators would be financially rewarded for lowering the environmental costs that they pass on to society or for lowering the integration costs that they pass on to the bulk power provider--this would be on top...
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NREL/TP volume 6A2-47179
Pub. Date
2009.
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Colorado has more renewable energy potential than it is ever likely to need for its own in-state electricity consumption. Such abundance may suggest an opportunity for the state to sell renewable power elsewhere, but Colorado faces considerable competition from other western states that may have better resources and easier access to key markets on the West Coast. This report examines factors that will be important to the development of interstate...
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Accelerated Reader
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"When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone's crops began to fail. His family didn't have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring electricity to his village. Everyone thought he was crazy but William persevered and managed to create a functioning windmill out of junkyard...
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2012.
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The Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis (JISEA) designed this study to address four related key questions, which are a subset of the wider dialogue on natural gas: 1. What are the life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with shale gas compared to conventional natural gas and other fuels used to generate electricity?; 2. What are the existing legal and regulatory frameworks governing unconventional gas development at federal,...
12) Wind energy
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c1979
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The generation, storage, and conversion of wind power for practical use today.
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Pub. Date
1996
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This compelling saga is the history of the effort to capture the power of the wind for electricity. Environmental historian Robert W. Righter has included in his narrative the first European windmills, the nineteenth-century electric experiments that empowered rural America, and finally, the immense, acres-wide wind farms that feed the power grid in late-twentieth-century California and elsewhere.
Righter tells lively tales not only of eccentric...
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Pub. Date
2016
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The book "Top 40 Costly Mistakes Solar Newbies Make" is a simple and practical guide that could save you a lot of money, headaches and time during the planning, buying, implementation and operation phase of your solar power system. Whether you have decided to buy a solar electricity system or assemble it yourself, you need a guide. There are thousands of books, articles, leaflets, forums and many other resources available online telling you what to...
18) Solar power DIY handbook: so, you want to connect your off-grid solar panel to a 12 volts battery ?
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Pub. Date
2018
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Solar power DIY handbook is loaded with much useful content and is an excellent guide on how one can choose, decide and install efficient and reliable solar power in one's home. It's also great for professional installers who haven't mastered installation as it outlines the necessary steps to follow. The entire book is divided into 15 chapters. The fore chapter discusses the basics of electricity and the electrical components including resistors,...
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