Gasoline and the American People 2007 - Printed Copy
As gasoline prices in the United States rise sharply, the composition of a gallon of gasoline undergoes changes for environmental, supply, tax, and cost reasons, and American drivers struggle to resp
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Publication Date: JAN 2007
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What Way Out? The Report of the Iraq Study Group and the New Urgency
Over a nearly nine-month period, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group analyzed the US role in Iraq and concluded that the escalating violence there puts a stark choice before the US government: Despite di
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Publication Date: DEC 2006
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Canada's Luxury of Choice: Clean Power Generation for a New Era
In most of the larger Canadian provinces reserve margins are now tightening significantly, requiring new choices to be made on fuels to meet future power generation needs. These decisions will be mad
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Publication Date: DEC 2006
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Overcoming Challenges to Growth in the Canadian Oil Sands
Canadian Oil Sands: Six Constraints to GrowthAfter many years of being dismissed as a high-cost fringe activity, Canadian oil sands have been embraced by the oil industry as a mainstream approach to achieving reserve growth and energy
Publication Date: OCT 2006
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China's Renewables Get Support from New Law
China's first renewable energy law came into effect on January 1, 2006, to help the country increase renewables to 15 percent of China's primary energy consumption by 2020, up from 7 percent today. T
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Publication Date: APR 2006
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EPA NSR Reform Rejected by Court
In a March 2006 ruling, the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC Circuit) rejected the cornerstone to the Environmental Protection Agency's New Source Review (NSR) reform effo
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Publication Date: APR 2006
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CERAWeek 2006: North American Power Highlights
The North American power business needs substantial infrastructure investment over the coming decade. But decisions will have to be made under significant uncertainties about volatile fuel prices, th
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Publication Date: MAR 2006
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Ensuring Energy Security
Current events are putting energy security at the fore. But the meaning of the term "energy security" has expanded. Once, energy security really meant "security of oil supplies against disruption." T
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Publication Date: MAR 2006
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Focus on Energy: Perspectives from CERAWeek 2006
With the global energy supply system under pressure-spiking prices, more integrated world economy, natural disasters, geopolitics, environmental imperatives, technological challenges-the energy indus
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Publication Date: MAR 2006
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In the Woods: Can Biomass Power Compete?
Wood biomass combustion for power generation has faced difficult challenges in the United States for the past 15 years following a boom triggered by the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978
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Publication Date: FEB 2006
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SO2 Market Commentary: Prices Fall, but Market Remains Tight
Between October and December 2005, sulfur dioxide (SO2) allowance prices skyrocketed almost 80 percent from $900 to $1,600 before falling back to $900 in February. The SO2 allowance market remains su
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Publication Date: FEB 2006
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Merchant Power's Recovery: Four Dimensions of Value
With the worst apparently behind the merchant power sector in North America, many believe the single key dimension of value recovery will be the gradual working off of the generation oversupply. But
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Publication Date: FEB 2006
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Stratospheric CO2?
The price of carbon dioxide (CO2) has reached unexpected levels of €20-€30 in 2005, raising concerns about the compounding impact of the Emissions Trading Scheme on companies' profitability
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Publication Date: JAN 2006
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The Potential for Game-changing Technology
The probability of an energy technology breakthrough is small, but real. Nevertheless, changes will happen slowly, and for energy industry participants the risk of acting too soon is at least as grea
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Publication Date: JAN 2006
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Mexican Environmental Pressures: Bringing Deeper Change in the Hydrocarbon Sector?
A rash of serious accidents ranging from oil pipeline ruptures to leaks, spills, and explosions has heightened public concerns about the compliance and performance of Mexico's hydrocarbon sector with
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Publication Date: SEP 2005
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The Energy Policy Act of 2005: Impact on the Electric Power Business
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 will have an immediate and long-lasting impact on the US power business. Through its numerous financial incentives, mandates, rule changes, and realignment of authoritie
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Publication Date: AUG 2005
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Carbon Capture and Geological Storage: Within Our Reach or Beyond Our Grasp?
The capture and geological storage of carbon emissions from power generation may be ready for initial commercialization in a decade, benefiting from technologies already in use in industry, and subst
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Publication Date: AUG 2005
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Nuclear Power Worldwide: A New Growth Track
Improved economics, concerns over energy security, and the pressure to limit emissions of greenhouse gases are promoting nuclear power's fortunes broadly around the world. Asian nations have been the
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Publication Date: JUN 2005
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Special Report--Global Oil Summit 2005: The Future of E&P Challenge: Growth and Innovation
Upstream research and development (R&D) spending by many international oil companies has decreased significantly over the past two decades. There is also a perception, at least in some quarters,
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Publication Date: MAY 2005
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Breezing Up: Intermittent Wind on a Reliable Grid
The rapid growth of wind power worldwide is raising concerns among traditional industry participants that wind's intermittency will threaten grid reliability or impose substantial costs. But evolving
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Publication Date: OCT 2004
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Optimizing Gas Turbine Maintenance: A Hidden Source of Value?
The common ways that traders, dispatchers, and investors treat gas turbine operating and maintenance (O&M) costs can lead to suboptimal operating and investment decisions. As a result, there may
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Publication Date: SEP 2004
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Renewables Portfolio Standards: The Second Wave
Subsequent to an initial wave of state-level renewable energy mandates passed as part of electricity market deregulation in the United States, a "second wave" of renewable energy policymaking is now
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Publication Date: MAY 2004
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Auctions for Retail Electric Service: Bringing Risk to Light
Auctions to determine electric suppliers for customers who choose not to shop solve a major challenge in power deregulation and, in the process, determine a market price for the risk involved in serv
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Publication Date: APR 2004
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Integrated Gasification Combined-cycle: Clean Coal Technology of Choice for the Future?
Integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) (or coal gasification) may be the key to coal's long-term survival as an economic and environmentally practical fuel. As the natural gas price path becom
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Publication Date: JAN 2004
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