Valuing fuel diversification in power generation capacity planning

Energy Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1664-1674

  Sunderkötter, Malte ^a   Weber, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capacity planning; Fuel mix diversification; Mean Variance Portfolio theory; Power plant investments

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ARBITRARY NUMBER; CAPACITY PLANNING; CONCEPTUAL ELEMENTS; EFFICIENT PORTFOLIO; EFFICIENT SYSTEMS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY MARKET; ELECTRICITY SYSTEM; FUEL DIVERSIFICATION; FUEL MIX; FUEL PRICES; GENERATION CAPACITY; GENERATION PORTFOLIOS; MARGINAL COSTS; MEAN VARIANCE; OPTIMAL INVESTMENT POLICY; OPTIMALITY CONDITIONS; PLANT TECHNOLOGIES; PORTFOLIO THEORIES; POWER PLANT INVESTMENT; RISK CHARACTERISTICS; STATIC OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAIN MARKETS;

COMMERCE; COSTS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRICITY; FUELS; INVESTMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY PLANNING; FUEL; INVESTMENT; POWER GENERATION; POWER PLANT; PRICE DETERMINATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84864793170     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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