Reports, Briefings and Other Publications
The links below will take you to web sites of OnLocation's clients where our modeling and analytical works were used as a part of the studies.
2007
Annual Energy Outlook 2007, with Projections to 2030 (PDF, 6.7 MB)
International Energy Outlook 2007 (PDF, 1.4 MB)
2006
Energy Market Impacts of a Clean Energy Portfolio Standard, EIA (SR/OIAF/2006-02), June 2006.
Annual Energy Outlook 2006, with Projections to 2030 (PDF, 7.3 MB)
International Energy Outlook 2006 (PDF, 1.2 MB)
National Electric Transmission Congestion Study: Executive Summary (PDF, 1.8 MB)
National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (PDF, 10 MB)
Projected Benefits of Federal Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Programs: FY 2007 Budget Request, U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, (NREL/TP-620-39684), March 2006.
Analysis of S.1844, The Clear Skies Act of 2003; S.843, The Clean Air Planning Act of 2003; and S.366, The Clean Power Act of 2003,EIA, (SR/OIAF/2006-02), May 2004.
2005
Annual Energy Outlook 2005, with Projections to 2025 (PDF, 2.0 MB)
International Energy Outlook 2005 (PDF, 1.6 MB)
Impacts of Modeled Recommendations
of the National Commission on Energy Policy (PDF, 1.9 MB)
Impacts of Modeled Provisions of H.R. 6 EH: The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (PDF, 363 KB)
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2004
Ending The Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America's Energy Challenges, The National Commission On Energy Policy, December 2004.
2003
Report to Congress: Impacts of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Proposal for Standard Market Design (PDF, 1.0 MB)
Report to Congress: Impacts of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Proposal for Standard Market Design: Appendixes (PDF, 371 KB)
Years Prior
Reducing Emissions of Sulfur Dioxides and Mercury from Electric Power Plants, EIA (SR/OIAF/2001-04), September 2001.
The Impact of Wholesale Electricity Price Controls on California Summer Reliability (June 2001) (PDF, 136 KB)
Horizontal Market Power in Restructured Electricity Markets (March 2000) (PDF, 150 KB)
Supporting Analysis for the Comprehensive Electricity Competition Act (May 1999):
Chapter 1—The Context for Change in the Electric Power Industry (PDF, 149 KB)
Chapter 2—Projected Effects of Electricity Competition (PDF, 329 KB)
Chapter 3—Implementation of the Reference and Competitive Scenario in POEMS (PDF, 58 KB)
Appendix A—Summary Results of the Reference and Competitive Scenarios (PDF, 62 KB)
Appendix C—Policy Office Electricity Modeling System (POEMS) Documentation (PDF, 708 KB)
Available Papers
"Overview of NEMS-H2, Version 1.0," Frances Wood, DOE Hydrogen Transition Analysis Workshop, January 26, 2006.
"Regional Representations in NEMS and POEMS," Frances Wood, NREL GIS/Regionalization for EERE - Modeling Workshop, July 15, 2004.
"The Role for Solar in the Long-Term Outlook of Electric Power Generation in the U.S." Robert Margolis and Frances Wood, paper presented at 24th USAEE/IAEE North American Conference, July 8, 2004.
"Use of NEMS For EERE Policy Analysis," Frances Wood, NREL Energy Analysis Seminar Series, June 10, 2004.
"NEMS Update: Long-term Cost Algorithm," Frances Wood, Renewable Energy Modeling Series, April 20, 2004.
"Using NEMS for a Long-Range View (to 2050) of Electricity Markets," Frances Wood and Robert Margolis, 12th Annual NEMS/AEO Conference, March 23, 2004.
"Geothermal Module in the NEMS Renewable Module - AEO 2002," and "Geothermal Scenarios Using NEMS," OnLocation, Inc. Contractor Reports to National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2002.
"Reload Database Documentation and Evaluation and Use in NEMS," "Alternative Sectoral Load Shapes for NEMS," and "Weather-Normalized System Load Shapes for NEMS," OnLocation, Inc. Contractor Reports to EIA Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting, 2001.
"Load Shifting in Response to Time-of-Day Pricing in POEMS," OnLocation, Inc. Contractor Report to National Renewable Energy Laboratory and U.S. DOE Office of Policy, 2000.
"Framework for Identifying Distributed Resources Markets Consistent with NEMS/POEMS," "Implementation of Distributed Generation Analytic Framework Building Upon NEMS/POEMS," and "Assessment of the Potential for Distributed Resources Using a New Modeling Framework," OnLocation, Inc. Contractor Report to National Renewable Energy Laboratory and U.S. DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 1999.
"Price and Emission Impacts of Accelerated Power Plant Retirements," Frances Wood, USAEE/IAEE Conference, August 30, 1999.
"Efficient Heat Rate Benchmarks for Coal-Fired Generating Units," B.F. Roberts and Lessly Goudarzi, Power Market Analysis Working Paper 98-1, 1998.
"Modeling Electricity Restructuring using POEMS: Shaping Competitive Prices Through Cost Shaving and Shifting," John Conti, Lessly Goudarzi, Howard Gruenspecht
"Electric Generating Plant Operating Efficiency and Mitigation of Stranded Investment Costs," Lessly Goudarzi and B.F. Roberts, OnLocation Working Paper 97-3, May 1997.