| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 42 p. ): col. map. |
| Series |
NREL/TP ; 6A2-45639 |
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NREL/TP ; 6A2-45639.
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| System Details |
Full text available via Internet in .pdf format. Adobe Acrobat Reader required. |
| Note |
Title from title screen (viewed July 16, 2009). |
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"July 2009." |
| Summary |
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) requested assistance in identifying methodological alternatives for quantifying the benefits of renewable electricity. The context is the CPUC's analysis of a 33% renewable portfolio standard (RPS) in California--one element of California's Climate Change Scoping Plan. The information would be used to support development of an analytic plan to augment the cost analysis of this RPS (which recently was completed). NREL has responded to this request by developing a high-level survey of renewable electricity effects, quantification alternatives, and considerations for selection of analytic methods. This report addresses economic effects and health and environmental effects, and provides an overview of related analytic tools. Economic effects include jobs, earnings, gross state product, and electricity rate and fuel price hedging. Health and environmental effects include air quality and related public-health effects, solid and hazardous wastes, and effects on water resources. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-42). |
| Type Of Report |
Technical report. |
| Funding |
Contract no. DE-AC36-08-GO28308 ; prepared under Task no. IGST.8107. |
| Subject |
California Public Utilities Commission.
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Energy policy -- Economic aspects.
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Renewable energy sources -- Law and legislation -- Environmental aspects.
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| Added Author |
Vimmerstedt, Laura J.
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
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| Gpo Item No. |
0430-P-03 (online) |
| Sudoc No. |
E 9.16:NREL/TP-6 A 2-45639 |
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