Partial carbon permits allocation of potential emission trading scheme in Australian electricity market

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 543-553

  Zhou, Xun ^a   James, Geoff ^b   Liebman, Ariel ^a   Dong, Zhao Yang ^c   Ziser, Carla ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian national electricity market; Carbon permits; Emissions trading scheme

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION APPROACH; ALLOCATION OF EMISSION PERMITS; AUSTRALIAN ELECTRICITY MARKET; CARBON PERMIT; EMISSION TRADING; EMISSION TRADING SCHEME; EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME; FREE ALLOCATION; GENERATION COMPANIES; HISTORICAL EMISSIONS; NATIONAL ELECTRICITY MARKETS; OVERALL COSTS;

AIR QUALITY; CIVIL AVIATION; COMMERCE; PROFITABILITY;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 76649139142     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2009.2030377     Document Type: Article

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