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New Articles Since August 27, 2008
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Independent Market for Every Utility Customer: Alternative Market Operation
08/28/08 - By Len Gould , Consultant
The presently-used Standard Market Design (SMD market) is economically flawed. It is held to be completely fair to all participants -- an old coal, hydro or nuclear plant that has long ago retired the debt used to build it, and now produces electricity for its cost of fuel and maintenance, is paid in the market at the same rate as a newly built nuclear plant.
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Managing Mailing Costs: Improving Your Odds and Your Bottom Line
08/25/08 - By Harry Stephens , President and CEO, DATAMATX
Recently, business mailers were impacted by yet another increase in postal costs. In a time when utilities are trying to lower operating costs while still meeting consumer demand, there are continual challenges with annual print mail rate increases.
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Back to Basics for the New Reality
08/26/08 - By Dennis Roberts , President, Advantage Window Systems
Many knowledgeable people agree that the days of cheap energy are gone. So if we have entered a reality of rising energy costs, now is the time to make plans to address our work and home environment.
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Wind, Solar, Nuclear, and Electricity Storage
08/22/08 - By Joseph Somsel , Nuclear Engineer
Advocates of intermittent alternate energy sources put enormous hopes in electricity storage development as a boon to the market acceptance of their technologies. It is recognized by anyone with an ounce of realism that the timing mismatch between God-given winds and sunbeams and the needs of man is one of the fundamental problems with alternative energy development.
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Three Years of Green in Clean Tech
08/27/08 - By Jamie Wimberly , CEO, EcoAlign
Three years have passed since the Distributed Energy Financial Group, LLC (DEFG) launched its benchmark stock index, the Distributed Energy Stock Index, or DESI, to track the progress of the clean and alternative energy technology (clean tech) sector. DESI is comprised of 40 publicly traded companies from major North American exchanges.
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