Optimizing plant size in the planning of renewable energy portfolios

Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 169-187

  Cucchiella, Federica ^a   D’Adamo, Idiano ^a   Gastaldi, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Net present value; Optimal portfolio mix; Renewable energy; Return risk optimisation; Sharpe ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929692791     PISSN: 18644031     EISSN: 1864404X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12076-015-0150-6     Document Type: Article

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