On the Economics of Ramping Rate Restrictions at Hydro Power Plants: Balancing Profitability and Environmental Costs [PDF]
This paper examines the impact of ramping rate restrictions imposed on hydro operations to protect aquatic ecosystems. A dynamic optimization model of the profit maximizing decisions of a hydro operator is solved for various restrictions on water flow ...
Margaret Insley, Shilei Niu
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Great Bay Estuary Restoration Compendium [PDF]
, 2006 Single species approaches to natural resource conservation and management are now viewed as antiquated and oversimplified for dealing with complex systems.
Burdick, David M. +3 more
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Design and construction aspects of a geocomposite drainage system in a dam [PDF]
, 2012 The drainage system of a dam depends mainly of the available granular material founded near the dam site and it’s quantities. In some cases, the use of natural granular materials can reach an impracticable cost considering the transportation and the ...
Gerheim Souza Dias, Tiago +1 more
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Applications systems verification and transfer project. Volume 7: Cost/benefit analysis for the ASVT on operational applications of satellite snow-cover observations [PDF]
The results of the OASSO ASVT's were used to estimate the benefits accruing from the added information available from satellite snowcover area measurement.
Castruccio, P. +3 more
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Integration of renewable energy sources in the distribution network [PDF]
, 2018 Tato práce uvádí obecné informace o obnovitelných zdrojích energie, typech elektráren a jejich pracovních principech. Práce je zaměřena na větrné elektrárny (principy, typy, komponenty, výhody a nevýhody).
Essa Abdullah
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Lithuania on the way to energy independence: an experience or a lesson? [PDF]
, 2010 The article considers the steps taken by Lithuania towards gaining energy independence in the interbellum and the Soviet periods. The author analyses the peculiarities of the republic's energy policy after achieving independence in the early 1990s and ...
Kretinin Gennady
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Management plan to save the eel. Optimising the design and management of installations [PDF]
, 2012 The European eel was until recently an abundant species in most European freshwaters, but its numbers have fallen sharply since the 1970s and 1980s. The causes of the rapid decline, which now threatens the very existence of the species, are clear for the
Baran, Philippe +4 more
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Reducing CO2 Emissions in the Upper Midwest: Technology, Resources, Economics, and Policy [PDF]
We develop scenarios for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity sector in the upper Midwest (Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Manitoba) by 80% relative to 1990 levels.
Jones, Kathryn A. +3 more
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Expectations and Forward Risk Premium in the Spanish Power Market [PDF]
To analyse the forward risk premium in the Spanish electricity market, we adopt not only an ex post approach, but also an ex ante. We find that the sign of the ex post forward premium depends on the unexpected variation in demand and on the unexpected ...
María Dolores Furió, Vicente Meneu
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Calculating Risk, Denying Uncertainty: Seismicity and Hydropower Development in Nepal [PDF]
, 2017 If Ulrich Beck’s definition of ‘risk society’ describes societies increasingly structured by preoccupations with future environmental threats and related insecurities created by modernization, then Nepal’s hydropower community would appear to ...
Butler, Christopher, Rest, Matthäus
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