Evaluating China's biomass power production investment based on a policy benefit real options model

Energy

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 751-761

  Wang, Xingwei ^a   Cai, Yanpeng ^a,b   Dai, Chao ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Binomial tree model; Biomass power production; Economic evaluation; Policy benefit model; Real options approach; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION TREES; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; SALES;

BINOMIAL TREE MODELS; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; POWER PRODUCTION; REAL OPTIONS APPROACH; UNCERTAINTY;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS POWER; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY POLICY; INCENTIVE; INVESTMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER GENERATION; PROBABILITY; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84905723645     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2014.06.080     Document Type: Article

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