A simulation approach to balancing annual risk and reward in retail electrical power markets

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1050-1057

  Gabriel, Steven A ^a   Ferudun, Mehmet ^b   Balakrishnan, Swaminathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Clark Construction Group   (United States)

^c ANB Enterprises Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Risk analysis; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; DECISION MAKING; DEREGULATION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRICITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ELECTRIC POWER MARKETS; SUPPLY CONTRACTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0036872796     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2002.804987     Document Type: Article

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