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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Journal Publication:
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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Journal Publication:
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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Journal Publication:
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).