Full Cost of Electricity Publications
Executive Summary: The Full Cost of Electricity
Capacity Expansion and Dispatch Modeling: Model Documentation and Results for ERCOT Scenarios
EPA’s Valuation of Environmental Externalities from Electricity Production
Estimation of Transmission Costs for New Generation
Federal Financial Support for Electricity Generation Technologies
Future Utility Business Models
The History and Evolution of the U.S. Electricity Industry
Household Energy Costs for Texans
Impact of renewable generation on operational reserves requirements: When more could be less
Integrating Community Values into the Full Cost of Electricity
Integrating Photovoltaic Generation: Cost of Integrating Distributed Photovoltaic Generation to the Utility Distribution Circuits
Market-calibrated Forecasts for Natural Gas Prices
New U.S. Power Costs: by County, with Environmental Externalities
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Rhodes, Joshua D., King, Carey, Gülen, Gürcan, Olmstead, Sheila M., Dyer, James S., Hebner, Robert E., Beach, Fred C., Edgar, Thomas F., Webber, Michael E.. “A geographically resolved method to estimate levelized power plant costs with environmental externalities,” Energy Policy, 2017, 102 (March 2017), 491-499, doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2016.12.025. View paper free online here or download PDF.
Quantifying Diversity of Electricity Generation in the U.S.
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Wu, Tiffany Yue-wei, Rai, Varun "Quantifying diversity of electricity generation in the U.S.," The Electricity Journal, 2017, Volume 30, Issue 7, Pages 55-66, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2017.09.001
State Level Financial Support for Electricity Generation Technologies: An analysis of Texas & California
Trends in Transmission, Distribution, and Administration Costs for U.S. Investor Owned Electric Utilities
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Fares, Robert L. and King, Carey W. “Trends in transmission, distribution, and administration costs for U.S. investor-owned electric utilities,” Energy Policy, 2017, 105 (June 2017), 354-362., doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2017.02.036. Journal paper: online link. Data: Underlying FERC Form1 data are available via OpenEI (for data from 1994-2016).