Miscellaneous Reports and Studies
Up one level2002 Low Income Assistance Programs Evaluation
Prepared for: Eugene Water & Electric Board, August 26, 2002
Going With The Flow
This report by the National Resource Defense Council analyzes the costs and carbon-emission consequences of removing the four lower Snake River dams - and replacing their energy - to restore salmon. It finds that replacing energy without increasing carbon dioxide and other emissions is affordable for residential electricity users.
Excerpt of Preliminary Results: Utility and Societal Benefits
Oregon Energy Assistance Program Evaluation - When a payment assistance program to low-income customers is instituted, a utility can avoid a range of potential costs to ratepayers.
Renewables-First Generation/Transmission Projects
Many policy-makers and generation developers think that, especially in theWest and Midwest, renewables cannot be developed on a large scale without coal as a transmission partner. This paper presents a contrary case—that large-scale renewable energygeneration projects (“Mega-Projects”) appear able to economically justify major transmission infrastructure, with no initial participation by coal.