Assessing the effect of wind power uncertainty on profitability

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2677-2683

  Gass, V ^a   Strauss, F ^a   Schmidt, J ^a   Schmid, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Conditional Value at Risk; Internal Rate of Return; Measure Correlate Predict Method; Wind power

Indexed keywords

EARNINGS; FORECASTING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROFITABILITY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VALUE ENGINEERING; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

BOOTSTRAPPING; CONDITIONAL VALUE-AT-RISK; INTERNAL RATE OF RETURN; MEASURE-CORRELATE-PREDICT; PROFITABILITY ASSESSMENTS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS; WIND SPEED DISTRIBUTION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79955487069     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2011.01.024     Document Type: Review

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