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Title: User's guide to SERICOST: a computer program for estimating electric utility avoided cost

Abstract

Computer models have been developed that can be used to estimate technology-specific avoided cost rates for electric utility purchases from qualifying distributed power producers, as required by Section 210 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978. SERICOST is a modified version of MARGINALCOST, the marginal cost estimation model. SERICOST calculates the electric utility's avoided cost by time period, independent of the type of technology used by the qualifying facility. SERICOST and the companion model SERICPAC, used in combination, calculate average annual avoided cost rates for wind turbines, low-head hydro facilities, and several biomass systems.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Solar Energy Research Inst., Golden, CO (USA); Madison Consulting Group, WI (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
7151320
Report Number(s):
SERI/TR-09275-2
ON: DE82016380
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-77CH00178
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; 17 WIND ENERGY; 13 HYDRO ENERGY; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; COMPUTER CODES; MANUALS; S CODES; ELECTRIC POWER; SELLBACK; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; BIOMASS; COST; LOW-HEAD HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY POLICIES ACT; WIND TURBINES; DOCUMENT TYPES; ENERGY SOURCES; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; LAWS; MACHINERY; NATIONAL ENERGY ACT; POWER; POWER PLANTS; PUBLIC UTILITIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES; TURBINES; TURBOMACHINERY; 140300* - Solar Energy- Economic, Industrial, & Business Aspects; 170400 - Wind Energy- Economic, Industrial, & Business Aspects; 130500 - Hydro Energy- Economic, Industrial, & Business Aspects; 299003 - Energy Planning & Policy- Unconventional Sources & Power Generation- Other- (-1989)

Citation Formats

. User's guide to SERICOST: a computer program for estimating electric utility avoided cost. United States: N. p., 1982. Web.
. User's guide to SERICOST: a computer program for estimating electric utility avoided cost. United States.
. 1982. "User's guide to SERICOST: a computer program for estimating electric utility avoided cost". United States.
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abstractNote = {Computer models have been developed that can be used to estimate technology-specific avoided cost rates for electric utility purchases from qualifying distributed power producers, as required by Section 210 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978. SERICOST is a modified version of MARGINALCOST, the marginal cost estimation model. SERICOST calculates the electric utility's avoided cost by time period, independent of the type of technology used by the qualifying facility. SERICOST and the companion model SERICPAC, used in combination, calculate average annual avoided cost rates for wind turbines, low-head hydro facilities, and several biomass systems.},
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year = {Sat May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982},
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