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  • This is rather puzzling when you consider that wind energy has the lowest initial capital costs of any alternative energy technologies, and that the so-called levelized cost of wind energy (which includes all the costs of producing the energy over the plant lifetime) already compare favorably with conventional generation technologies like coal and gas.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • Well, a significant move in Ohio to what's called levelized rate making over a two year - or levelized rate structure over a two year period in Ohio.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • - Electric rates for Lanai residents "levelized" to match those of Oahu.

    Hawaiian Electric and Castle & Cooke Agree on Low Prices for Power from Future Lanai Wind Farm and on Community Benefits for Lanai - Yahoo! Finance 2011

  • I looked through the Marcuses’ old bills, and they do this thing called levelized billing where they pay the same amount every month, regardless of how much electricity or water they actually use.

    The House on the Gulf Margaret Peterson Haddix 2004

  • I looked through the Marcuses’ old bills, and they do this thing called levelized billing where they pay the same amount every month, regardless of how much electricity or water they actually use.

    The House on the Gulf Margaret Peterson Haddix 2004

  • I looked through the Marcuses’ old bills, and they do this thing called levelized billing where they pay the same amount every month, regardless of how much electricity or water they actually use.

    The House on the Gulf Margaret Peterson Haddix 2004

  • I looked through the Marcuses’ old bills, and they do this thing called levelized billing where they pay the same amount every month, regardless of how much electricity or water they actually use.

    The House on the Gulf Margaret Peterson Haddix 2004

  • The inability of the American labor unions to organize foreign manufacturing facilities and impose "levelized" wages and benefits meant that those American manufacturers who remained unionized and declined to bargain for wage and benefit concession faced a slow but sure slide into economic ruin.

    The Oregon Catalyst 2008

  • "levelized" wages and benefits to a consuming public who did not have any real choices.

    The Oregon Catalyst 2008

  • The EIA estimates that for new plants coming online in 2016, that coal generation is between $17 and $30 per megawatt hour MORE costly than natural gas based on the total levelized cost of generation (e.g., all costs divided by MWh).

    Gary Liberson: The Counterintuitive World of Electricity Economics and Carbon 2010

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