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2 Framework for the Study
2 Framework for the Study
Pages 13-19
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As background for its study of DOE-sponsored R&D, the committee decided to examine the role played by industry and government in developing the technologies that successfully came to market and therefore presumably produced significant private benefits. The committee, with the help of outside experts, compiled a list of the most important advances in fossil energy and energy efficiency technology over the past two decades.
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That means increasing the diversity of energy and fuel choices and sources, bringing renewable energy sources into the market, strengthening domestic production of oil and gas, supporting commercial nuclear energy research, and increasing energy efficiency" (DOE, 2000)
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Environmental net benefits are based on changes in the quality of the environment that have occurred, will occur, or may occur as a result of the technology. A technology could directly reduce the adverse impact on the environment of providing a given amount of energy service by, for example, reducing sulfur dioxide emissions per kilowatt-hour of electric energy generated by a fossil fuel-fired power plant, or by indirectly enabling the achievement of enhanced environmental standards (by, for example, introducing the choice of a high-efficiency refrigerator)
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Neither macroeconomic stimulation of the national economy or the creation of jobs is to be considered a benefit Ed Developnnent| Technology | Technology Development 1 Technology Policy Conditions \ Developed in Progress Development Failed Will be favorable for Realized benefits Knowledge benefits I Knowledge benefits commercialization Might become favorable Options benefits ~ Knowledge benefits ~ Knowledge benefits for commercialization ~ ~ ~ Will not become favorable Knowledge benefits ~ Knowledge benefits I Knowledge benefits I for commercialization I FIGURE 2-2 Derivation of columns for the benefits matrix.
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Security Benefits The prevention or mitigation of macroeconomic losses resulting from energy disruptions can be considered as a security benefit. Transient and unpredicted impacts on the national economy of sudden and/or unpredicted service interruptions or price shocks can severely impair productivity at the national level, leading to real costs that can be estimated.
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As outlined in the discussion of the task statement in Chapter 1, this selection was designed both to identify lessons learned from the range of programs conducted by DOE and to evaluate the utility of the analytic framework in a diversity of circumstances. The committee then asked the Office of Fossil Energy and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at DOE to provide information required by the framework, and to do so following the detailed procedures specified in Appendix D
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The time and resource constraints of this study made it difficult even to apply fully the valuation methods that do exist. Where it has used quantified benefits to support its findings and recommendations, the committee considers it has been conservative in establishing upper and lower bounds for its benefit estimates.
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