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Comment On 'Impacts, Costs, And Techniques For Mitigation Of Contaminated Groundwater: A Review' By M. Sharefkin, M. Shechter, And A.V. Kneese, Robert Main
Robert S. Main
Published response to 'Impacts, Costs, and Techniques for Mitigation of Contaminated Groundwater: A Review' by M. Sharefkin, M. Shechter, and A.V. Kneese, Water Resources Research, Volume 20, Issue 12.
A New Approach To Peak Load Pricing, Robert Main
A New Approach To Peak Load Pricing, Robert Main
Robert S. Main
This paper explores an alternative method of ‘solving’ the problem of recurring time variable demands in a public utility context. It views the utility's load curve as a series of horizontal layers or ‘slices’ of varying lengths, rather than as a series of vertical slices as in the traditional approach. Several cases are examined, and traditional time-of-day pricing is shown to be inefficient or inapplicable in some of them, while ‘demand-layer’ pricing, based on horizontal slicing, is efficient. In still other cases, neither method of pricing is efficient.
How Do Environmental And Natural Resource Economics Texts Deal With The Simple Model Of The Intertemporal Allocation Of A Nonrenewable Resource, Robert Main
Robert S. Main
Textbooks in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics invariably deal with the problem of allocating a non-renewable resource over time. The simplest version of that problem is the case of a resource that is to be allocated over two periods. The resource has a constant Marginal Extraction Cost (MEC). Most textbooks treat this case before moving on to more complex and realistic cases. This paper suggests the results that should be emphasized and the method that should be used to arrive at those results. It also points out the possible confusions that should be avoided. Finally, it examines how several well-known …