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1.	The Oil Security Metrics Model A presentation by David Greene to the IWG GPRA USDOE on March 6, 2005.  Details Bookmark & Share

2.	20% Wind Energy by 2030: Increasing Wind Energy's Contribution to U.S. Electricity Supply Report on the requirements needed to generate twenty percent of the nation's electricity from wind energy by the year 2030.   Details Bookmark & Share

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Process Design and Economics for Biochemical Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Ethanol The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) promotes the production of ethanol and other liquid fuels from lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks by funding fundamental and applied research that advances the stat  Details Bookmark & Share

4.	Implications of Carbon Regulation for Green Power Markets This paper examines the potential effects that emerging mandatory carbon markets have for voluntary markets for renewable energy, or green power markets. In an era of carbon regulation, green power ma  Details Bookmark & Share

5.	Considerations for Emerging Markets for Energy Savings Certificates Early experiences with energy savings certificates (ESCs) have revealed both their merit and the challenges associated with them. In the United States, there has been little activity to date, so any l  Details Bookmark & Share

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Cost and Performance Assumptions for Modeling Electricity Generation Technologies The goal of this project was to compare and contrast utility scale power plant characteristics used in data sets that support energy market models. Characteristics include both technology cost and tec  Details Bookmark & Share

7.	Trends in Utility Green Pricing Programs (2005) In the early 1990s, only a handful of utilities offered their customers a choice of purchasing electricity generated from renewable energy sources. Today, more than 600 utilities—or about 20% of all u  Details Bookmark & Share

8.	Trends in Utility Green Pricing Programs (2006) In the early 1990s, only a handful of utilities offered their customers a choice of purchasing electricity generated from renewable energy sources. Today, more than 750 utilities—or about 25% of all u  Details Bookmark & Share

9.	Interaction of Compliance and Voluntary Renewable Energy Markets In recent years, both compliance and voluntary markets have emerged to help support the development of renewable energy resources. Both of these markets are growing rapidly and today about half of U.S  Details Bookmark & Share

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Green Power Marketing in the United States: A Status Report (11th Edition) This report documents green power marketing activities and trends in the United States. It presents aggregate green power sales data for all voluntary purchase markets across the United States. It als  Details Bookmark & Share

11.	Green Power Marketing in the United States: A Status Report (2008 Data) Voluntary consumer decisions to buy electricity supplied from renewable energy sources represent a powerful market support mechanism for renewable energy development. In the early 1990s, a small numbe  Details Bookmark & Share

12.	Green Power Marketing in the United States: A Status Report (2009 Data) This report documents green power marketing activities and trends in the United States. First, aggregate green power sales data for all voluntary purchase markets across the United States are presente  Details Bookmark & Share

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Green Power Marketing in the United States: A Status Report (Tenth Edition) This report documents green power marketing activities and trends in the United States, focusing on consumer decisions to purchase electricity supplied from renewable energy sources and how this choic  Details Bookmark & Share

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Financing Projects That Use Clean-Energy Technologies: An Overview of Barriers and Opportunities This technical paper describes the importance of project financing for clean-energy technology deployment. It describes the key challenges in financing clean-energy technology projects, including tech  Details Bookmark & Share

15.	2008 Renewable Energy Data Book This Renewable Energy Data Book for 2008 provides facts and figures on energy in general, renewable electricity in the United States, global renewable energy development, wind power, solar energy, geo  Details Bookmark & Share

16.	2009 Renewable Energy Data Book This Renewable Energy Data Book for 2009 provides facts and figures on energy in general, renewable electricity in the United States, global renewable energy development, wind power, solar energy, geo  Details Bookmark & Share

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Renewable Energy Price-Stability Benefits in Utility Green Power Programs. 36 pp This paper examines utility experiences when offering the fixed-price benefits of renewable energy in green pricing programs, including the methods utilized and the impact on program participation. It  Details Bookmark & Share

18.	Renewable Energy Project Financing: Impacts of the Financial Crisis and Federal Legislation This report explores the impacts of key market events on renewable energy project financing and development.   Details Bookmark & Share

19.	Modeling the Oil Transition: A Summary of the Proceedeings of the Workshop on the Economic and Implications of Global Energy Discusses the implications of an oil peak and/or transition.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Using Renewable Energy Purchases to Achieve Institutional Carbon Goals: A Review of Current Practices and Considerations. With organizations and individuals increasingly interested in accounting for their carbon emissions, greater attention is being placed on how to account for the benefits of various carbon mitigation a  Details Bookmark & Share

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Utility-Marketer Partnerships: An Effective Strategy for Marketing Green Power? This paper explores whether partnerships between utilities and independent marketers are an effective strategy for marketing green power. We present case studies of voluntary and mandatory partnership  Details Bookmark & Share

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Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) 2008 Pledges: Methodology and Assumptions Summary This report describes the methodology and assumptions used by NREL in quantifying the potential CO2 reductions resulting from more than 140 governments, international organizations, and private-sector  Details Bookmark & Share

23.	2010 Renewable Energy Data Book This Renewable Energy Data Book for 2010 provides facts and figures on energy in general, renewable electricity in the United States, global renewable energy development, wind power, solar energy, geo  Details Bookmark & Share

24.	2010 U.S. Lighting Market Characterization The 2010 U.S. Lighting Market Characterization is the second report released by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solid State Lighting Program that provides summary estimates of the installed stock, ene  Details Bookmark & Share

25.	History of Load Participation in ERCOT Presentation on demand integration by ERCOT for a DOE Workshop. Covers history of load participation in ERCOT from 2002 to present.  Details Bookmark & Share

26.	Workshop on DR System Operator Breakout Session Workshop breakout questions: Is it possible to use load response for ancillary services? Is it desirable? Is it worth the effort? What is required? What are the obstacles? How can DOE help?  Details Bookmark & Share

27.	Demand Response in the ERCOT Markets ERCOT grid serves 85% of Texas load over 40K+ miles transmission line. Demand response: voluntary load response, load resources, controllable load resources, and emergency interruptible load service.  Details Bookmark & Share

28.	U.S. Department of Energy Workshop: Load Participation in Ancillary Services List of DOE workshop participants, speakers, facilitators, and planning team. Includes workshop agenda. Workshop held October 25-26, 2011.  Details Bookmark & Share

29.	Opportunities for Mass Market Demand Response to Provide Ancillary Services Discusses what is meant by mass market demand response to provide ancillary services and outlines opportunities for adoption, and barriers to adoption.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Load Participation in Ancillary Services System from An Operator Perspective Ancillary services as defined by FERC (Order 888) distinguished by response time, duration, frequency. Met when DR has capability to balance supply and demand; and LMP payment to DR is cost effective.  Details Bookmark & Share

31.	Load Participation in Ancillary Services Mass Market Report out Answers questions: Is it possible to use load response for ancillary services? Is it desirable? Is it worth the effort? What is required? What are the obstacles? How can DOE help?  Details Bookmark & Share

32.	DOE Workshop: Load Participation in Capacity and Ancillary Services Market Presents profile of PJM demand-side resources. PJM provides 24% of generation, 27% of load, and 19% of transmission assets in Eastern Interconnection. Includes case studies.  Details Bookmark & Share

33.	Load Participation in Ancillary Services Workshop Report Developing load participation in ancillary services to the electric grid. Challenges: coordination among multiple entities, targeted R&D for market conditions and regulatory and policy environments.  Details Bookmark & Share

34.	Smart Grid Solutions That Pay You Describes technologies for mature demand-side asset market. Bi-directional DR; less intrusive to customers; challenges: regulatory, ISO and utility focus, engagement of loads, and effective pilots.  Details Bookmark & Share

35.	Load Participation in Ancillary Services Of five basic types of load response (participation), DOE load participation in ancillary services workshop focused on bulk power system reliability services regulation response and spinning reserve.  Details Bookmark & Share

36.	DOE/OE Load as a Resource R&D Overview DOE R&D and OE’s PSA and ISER programs support OE’s mission to modernize electric grid, enhance energy infrastructure security and reliability, and facilitate recovery from energy supply disruptions.  Details Bookmark & Share

37.	Large Customers Group Report-out Presentation Targets for demand response load participation provide market certainty for sellers, CSPs, and investment in supporting technology. Bigger RPS and resulting variable resources lead to market demand.   Details Bookmark & Share

38.	Large Customers (DR Sellers) State of the large customers for demand response integration of solar and wind into electric grid; openADR; CAISO; DR as a pseudo generation; commercial and industrial DR strategies; California regula  Details Bookmark & Share

39.	ISO New England – Results of Ancillary Service Pilot Programs Compares performance of pilot program assets and generation resources in alternative technology regulation and demand response reserves for flywheels and residential electric thermal storage.  Details Bookmark & Share

40.	ENERNOC Load Participation in Ancillary Services Report on EnerNOC. Description of their demand response for ancillary services in wholesale markets, bilateral programs, and lessons learned. NYISO experience.  Details Bookmark & Share

41.	Comverge contribution to load participation of ancillary services Presents Comverge demand response program summary. Discusses advantages of residential aggregation and real-time load management. Compares residential and commercial.   Details Bookmark & Share

42.	Addressing grid challenges and exploring opportunities, including DR Wind is valuable to PNW power generation mix. BPA supports development of wind generation forecasting, utility operational protocols and business practices, Demand Response, and storage applications.  Details Bookmark & Share

43.	Analytic Challenges to Valuing Energy Storage Electric grid energy storage value. System-level asset focus for mechanical and electrochemical energy storage. Analysis questions for power system planning, operations, and customer-side solutions.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Market Brief: Status of the Voluntary Renewable Energy Certificate Market (2011 Data) This report documents the status and trends of U.S. 'voluntary' markets -- those in which consumers and institutions purchase renewable energy to match their electricity needs on a voluntary basis. Vo  Details Bookmark & Share

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Integrating Variable Renewable Energy in Electric Power Markets: Best Practices from International Experience, Summary for Policymakers Many countries - reflecting very different geographies, markets, and power systems - are successfully managing high levels of variable renewable energy on the electric grid, including that from wind a  Details Bookmark & Share

46.	2011 Renewable Energy Data Book This Renewable Energy Data Book for 2011 provides facts and figures on energy in general, renewable electricity in the United States, global renewable energy development, wind power, solar energy, geo  Details Bookmark & Share

47.	2050 Study on Transportation Technology and Fuels: Draft Technology Cost Resource Paper This paper describes the analysis approach and findings of a study of vehicle technology cost trends that can be anticipated during the next fifty years.   Details Bookmark & Share

48.	Ethanol Pathways in the 2050 North American Transportation Futures Study A paper discussing the various ethanol pathways in the 2050 North American Transportation Futures Study  Details Bookmark & Share

49.	Highly Insulating Windows Volume Purchase Program Final Report This report documents the development, execution outcomes and lessons learned of the Highly Insulating Windows Volume Purchase (WVP) Program carried out over a three-year period from 2009 through 2012  Details Bookmark & Share

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Impact Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon Program This report includes the methodology and findings in evaluating DOE’s Solar Decathlon event. The primary purpose of this evaluation is to learn how effectively the Solar Decathlon event is meeting its  Details Bookmark & Share