Case name

Description

Integration mode

Reference in text

Reference in Appendix G

Electricity:
Low Nuclear

Relative to the reference case, greater increases in operating costs are assumed to be required after 30 years of operation.

Partially integrated

p. 76

p. 242

Electricity:
High Nuclear

Increases in operating costs are smaller than in the reference case.

Partially integrated

p. 76

p. 242

Electricity: Advanced Nuclear Cost 4-Year

New nuclear capacity is assumed to have lower capital costs than in the reference case and the same (4-year) construction lead time.

Partially integrated

p. 77

p. 242

Electricity: Advanced Nuclear Cost 3-Year

New nuclear capacity is assumed to have both lower capital costs than in the reference case and a shorter (3-year) construction lead time.

Partially integrated

p. 77

p. 242

Electricity:
High Demand

Electricity demand increases at an annual rate of 2.5 percent, compared to 1.8 percent in the reference case.

Partially integrated

p. 77

p. 243

Electricity: Low
Fossil Technology

New fossil generating technologies are assumed not to improve over time from 1999.

Partially integrated

p. 78

p. 243

Electricity: High
Fossil Technology

Costs and/or efficiencies for advanced fossil-fired generating technologies are assumed to improve from reference case values.

Partially integrated

p. 78

p. 243

Renewables:
High Renewables

Lower costs and higher efficiencies are assumed for new renewable generating technologies

Partially integrated

p. 80

p. 244

Oil and Gas:
Slow Technology

Cost, finding rate, and success rate parameters adjusted for slower improvement.

Fully integrated

p. 86

p. 245

Oil and Gas:
Rapid Technology

Cost, finding rate, and success rate parameters adjusted for more rapid improvement.

Fully integrated

p. 86

p. 245

Oil and Gas:
Low Resource

Inferred reserves, technically recoverable undiscovered resources, and unconventional unproved resources are reduced.

Fully integrated

p. 87

p. 245

Oil and Gas:
High Resource

Inferred reserves, technically recoverable undiscovered resources, and unconventional unproved resources are increased.

Fully integrated

p. 87

p. 245

Oil and Gas:
MTBE Ban

MTBE blended with gasoline is banned from all gasoline by 2004. The Federal requirement for 2.0 percent oxygen in reformulated gasoline is waived.

Standalone

p. 37

p. 247

Coal:
Low Mining Cost

Productivity increases at an annual rate of 3.7 percent, compared to the reference case growth of 2.2 percent. Real wages and real mine equipment costs decrease by 0.5 percent annually, compared to constant real wages and equipment costs in the reference case.

Partially integrated

p. 93

p. 248

Coal:
High Mining Cost

Productivity increases at an annual rate of 0.6 percent, compared to the reference case growth of 2.2 percent. Real wages and real mine equipment costs increase by 0.5 percent annually, compared to constant real wages and equipment costs in the reference case.

Partially integrated

p. 93

p. 248