Managing carbon regulatory risk in utility resource planning: Current practices in the Western United States

Energy Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3300-3311

  Barbose, Galen ^a   Wiser, Ryan ^a   Phadke, Amol ^a   Goldman, Charles ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric utilities; Greenhouse gas; Resource planning

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FINANCE; GLOBAL WARMING; INVESTMENTS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC POLICY; PUBLIC UTILITIES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; COMPLIANCE COSTS; CURRENT PRACTICES; FINANCIAL RISKS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GREENHOUSE GAS; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; POLICY-MAKERS; RESOURCE PLANNING; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; POLICY MAKING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; UTILITY SECTOR;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48949094073     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.04.023     Document Type: Article

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