Greater use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) marks a U.S. transition toward a "digital society" that may profoundly affect electricity supply, demand, and delivery. RAND developed four 2001-2021 scenarios of ICT evolution and assessed their implications for U.S. electricity requirements. Even large deployment of ICTs will only ...
This documented briefing discusses private-sector, nonprofit and state-sponsored programs that transfer used computer equipment to elementary and secondary schools.
Deregulation, competition, and industry restructuring are changing the production and delivery of electric power in the United States, both for investor-owned and municipally owned utilities. The largest U.S. municipal utility, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP), asked RAND to consider possible changes in governance that could ...
Preliminary estimates of the potential benefits of GridWise, a new initiative designed to bring the aging U.S. electricity grid into the information age. Description of an analytic framework for characterizing and estimating potential benefits from GridWise TM, a national initiative to link electricity suppliers and end-users via high-speed ...
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