Is the Merchant Power Producer a broken model?

Energy Policy

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 298-310

  Nelson, James ^a   Simshauser, Paul ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electric utilities; Energy prices; Project finance

Indexed keywords

DEREGULATED ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY MARKETS; ENERGY PRICES; FORWARD MARKET; GLOBAL TRENDS; MERCHANT POWER PLANTS; POWER PRODUCER; POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENT; POWER SYSTEM DEREGULATION; PROJECT FINANCE; STAND-ALONE GENERATORS;

BENCHMARKING; COMMERCE; ELECTRIC UTILITIES;

INVESTMENTS;

ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY POLICY; POWER PLANT;

EID: 84870392855     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.059     Document Type: Article

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