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108 Rebecca Smith, “Consumers: A Little Knowledge…”, Wall Street Journal, 30 June 2008; U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Mid-Atlantic Information Office, Avarage Energy Prices in the Washington-Baltimore Area: April 2009 (Philadelphia, PA: 1 June 2009); Ahmad Faruqui и Sanem Sergici, BGE’s Smart Energy Pricing Pilot Summer 2008 Impact Evaluation (Cambridge, MA: The Brattle Group, 28 april 2009), pp. 1 – 2; Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, “Re: Supplement 437 to P.S.C. Md E-6 – Rider 26 – Peak Time Rebate”, electronic fillings to Public Service Commission of Maryland, 15 April and 22 June 2009.

109 The Edison Foundation, “Utility-Scale Smart Meter Deployments, Plans & Proposals (IOUs)”, issue brief (Washington, DC: May 2009).

110 Выпуск новостей Smart Meters, “Finland Leads Europe in Smart Grid Development”, (Isle of Benbecula, Scotland: 16 January 2009).

111 Erik Olsen, “Smart Meters Open Market for Smart Apps”, Green, Inc., – см.: Nytimes.com , 7 October 2008.

112 IEA, op. cit. note 17, p. 506.

113 IEA, World Energy Outlook 2006 (Paris: 2006), р. 492; IEA, op. cit. note 11, pp. 25, 29.

114 Natalie Mims, Mathias Bell и Stephen Doig, Assessing the Electric Productivity Gap and the U.S. Efficiency Opportunity (Snowmass, CO: Rocky Mountain Institute, January 2009), pp. 6, 16 – 17.

115 Mandil et al., op. cit. note 76, pp. 39, 59 – 61, 95 – 96, 139 – 142.

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1 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), Crude Oil Production , – электронная база данных – см.: tonto. eia.doe.gov, материал обновлен 28 июля 2008; American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), “Installed U.S. Wind Power Capacity Surged 45% in 2007: American Wind Power Association Market Report”, press release (Washington, DC: 17 January 2008); AWEA, U.S. Wind Energy Projects , – электронная база данных – см.: www.awea.org/projects, материал обновлен 31 марта 2009; будущие мощности вычислены на основе Emerging Energy Research (EER), “US Wind Markets Surge to New Heights”, press release (Cambridge, MA: 14 August 2008); эквивалентность угольных электростанций рассчитана при условии, что среднестатистическая электростанция дает 500 мегаватт и действует 72 процента времени, вырабатывая таким образом 3.15 миллиардов киловатт/часов электричества в год; потребности жилого сектора рассчитаны на основании данных “Residential Sector Energy Consumption Estimates 2005”, в DOE, EIA, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2005 Status Report (Washington, DC: 2007), с данными по мощностям из DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Golden, CO: August 2006); данные о населении из U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts , – электронная база данных – см.: quickfacts.census.gov, материал обновлен 20 февраля 2009.

2 “Clipper and BP to JV on 5,050-MW South Dakota Project”, Wind Energy Weekly , vol. 27, no 1300 (1 August 2008); утверждение о том, что одного мегаватта ветрогенерируемой энергии достаточно для 300 домов, взято из AWEA”,U.S. Wind Energy Installations Reach New Milestone”, press release (Washington, DC: 14 August 2006); средний размер семьи из U.S. Census Bureau”, 2005 – 2007 American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates – Data Profile Highlights”, см.: factfinder. census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts, просмотрено автором 9 апреля 2009, численность населения из Census Bureau, op. cit. note 1; экспорт электричества из EER, op. cit. note 1; ITC Holdings Corp., “ITC Holdings Corp. Unveils Green Power Express”, press release (Novi, MI: 9 February 2009); TransCanada, “TransCanada’s Zephyr and Chinook Power Transmission Line”, project brochure (Calgary, Alberta: April 2009); Quanta Technology, LLC, Final Report on the Southwest Power Pool (SPP)Updated EHV Overlay Study (Raleigh, NC: 3 March 2008), pp. 11 – 17; “A Window of North Atlantic opportunity”, Windpower Monthly, October 2008, pp. 21 – 22.

3 Mark Leftly, “Middle East to Fund Scotland’s £5bn Power Grid”, Independent (London), 10 August 2008; соотношение валют с www.bloomberg. com/invest/calculators/currency.html, 9 April 2009; “World Electricity Installed Capacity by Type (Million Kilowatts), January 1, 2006”, в DOE, EIA, “International Energy Annual 2006 – World Electricity Data”, см.: www.eia.doe.gov/iea/elec.html, материал обновлен 8 декабря 2008.

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