REPORT
Different market segments have varying postal service needs, according to RAND Europe research conducted for the European Commission. All consumers value parcel services, reliability, and low levels of loss, but big businesses value letter services more than small or medium businesses or the public.
REPORT
Coal-fired electricity generating units (EGUs) provide about 46 percent of the electricity generated in the U.S., yet most of the existing coal-fired electricity fleet is 25–45 years old. Can the industry maintain the capability to design, construct, and operate coal-fired EGUs within reasonable cost, schedule, performance, environmental, and quality expectations?
REPORT
Biomass is an increasingly important source of electricity, heat, and liquid fuel. One near-term option for using it to generate electricity is to cofire biomass in coal-fired electricity plants. Factors to consider are plant-site modifications, changes in operations, costs, and logistical issues with delivering biomass to the plant.
RESEARCH BRIEF
Israel must control future electricity demand. It can build a secure energy infrastructure in which natural gas provides up to 40 percent of electric power generation but only by taking measures to limit supply disruptions.
REPORT
Israel must employ strategic alternatives to make the best use of domestic and imported natural gas. This report explores natural gas-utilization and supply-infrastructure strategies in the face of extreme uncertainty and potentially large consequences; favorable and unfavorable future environments; and ways to achieve an energy future that reduces Israelis' exposure to vulnerabilities and risks.
NEWS RELEASE
Dramatic progress in renewable energy technology is needed if the United States desires to produce 25 percent of its electricity and motor vehicle fuel from renewable sources by 2025 without significantly increasing consumer costs.
NEWS RELEASE
December 5, 2006 News Release: RAND to Review Renewable Energy Study and Will Issue Corrected Version
REPORT
L.A.'s port, airport, and Department of Water and Power together contract for more than a billion dollars worth of goods and services annually; these activities could be made more transparent and efficient, thus improving public trust.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Critical infrastructures in the US will remain vulnerable to a variety of attacks, both physical and cyber, into the foreseeable future.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
This paper presents two optimization models for hazardous waste capacity planning and treatment facility locations.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
This paper traces the role economists played in getting data, analyzing data, and evaluating alternative rate structures. In an attempt to assess the effectiveness of economists in this process, I focus on how our profession influenced the arguments put forth and the nature of the evidence used in the debate--not on whether the outcomes in terms of rates were those proposed or preferred by economists. (Author)
REPORT
The California Public Utilities Commission, in case number 9804, instituted a generic investigation into the structure of electric utility rates in California, and invited testimony from interested parties and expert witnesses. At the invitation of a...
PEOPLE
Adjunct Staff, Core Member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School Faculty for the
2011-12 Academic Year
Ph.D. in economics, University of Heidelberg
RAND® is a registered trademark. Copyright © 1994-2012 RAND Corporation. Last Modified: September 15, 2010 Site Feedback »