From clean toilets to working computers, your company incurs many costs that it cannot assign to one particular "cost object" -- a product, project, department or service. You must nonetheless cover ...

Cost allocation serves several purposes. Also referred to as cost apportionment, this practice of identifying the source of an expense and assigning the cost accordingly is an important factor in ...

Federal regulations require that similar costs be treated consistently as either direct costs or indirect costs, in like circumstances. This regulation imposes a requirement on the University to ...

On April 21, 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) aimed at reforming long-term regional transmission planning. The ...

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently signaled potential wide-reaching reforms to regional electric transmission planning, cost allocation, and generator interconnection processes. Nearing ...

Transmission lines here have started construction or are near ready, among others set to add about 15% of added capacity to help decarbonize U.S. power systems, says a new analysis. At least 36 ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The D.C. Circuit upheld a pair of orders by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission aimed at evenly distributing the production costs of electricity generation among the five ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the game theory approach to the problem of allocating cost, the users of a facility are viewed as players in a cooperative n-person game.