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Showing posts with label Utilities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Utilities. Show all posts

Thursday, November 18, 2010

SPECIAL REPORT RELEASE Updated Capital Cost Estimates for Electricity Generation Plants

SPECIAL REPORT RELEASE
Updated Capital Cost Estimates for Electricity Generation Plants
This paper provides information on the cost of building new electricity power plants.  These cost estimates are critical inputs in the development of energy projections and analyses.  They play an important role in determining the mix of capacity additions that will serve growing loads in the future and the response of electricity generators to the imposition of environmental controls on conventional pollutants or any limitations on greenhouse gas emissions. 

See the full paper at:
http://www.eia.gov/oiaf/beck_plantcosts/
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Monday, October 18, 2010

Charge That Car—for Less

Electric cars are coming, and utilities are rolling out special rates for the first wave of buyers.

Some are offering "all you can eat" rate plans exclusively for charging electrical vehicles. Others are promoting deals to encourage charging overnight, when electricity costs are lowest. The plans put the electric vehicles on separate meters, and all offer significant savings compared with gasoline prices.
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