Stochastic control and real options valuation of thermal storage-enabled demand response from flexible district energy systems

Applied Energy

Volumn 137, Issue , 2015, Pages 823-831

  Kitapbayev, Yerkin ^a   Moriarty, John ^a   Mancarella, Pierluigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combined heat and power; Demand response; Flexibility; Heat storage; Real options; Stochastic control

Indexed keywords

COGENERATION PLANTS; COMMERCE; COSTS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; HEAT STORAGE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMART POWER GRIDS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMBINED HEAT AND POWER; DEMAND RESPONSE; FLEXIBILITY; REAL OPTIONS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL;

INVESTMENTS;

COMBINED HEAT AND POWER; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MARKET CONDITIONS; MODEL VALIDATION; PRICING POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; THERMAL POWER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VALUATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84912058799     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.07.019     Document Type: Article

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