Modeling generator power plant portfolios and pollution taxes in electric power supply chain networks: A transportation network equilibrium transformation

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 171-190

  Wu, Kai ^a   Nagurney, Anna ^b,c   Liu, Zugang ^c   Stranlund, John K ^d  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric power; Pollution taxes; Supply chains; Transportation network equilibrium; Variational inequalities

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; GAS FUELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSPORTATION;

CARBON EMISSIONS; ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY; POLLUTION TAXES; SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK MODEL; TRANSPORATION NETWORK EQUILIBRIUM; VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES;

AIR POLLUTION;

ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; POLLUTION TAX; POWER PLANT;

EID: 33645956569     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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