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Analytical methods for energy diversity and security : portfolio optimization in the energy sector : a tribute to the work of Dr. Shimon Awerbuch /

This is an ideal volume for professionals in academia, industry and government interested in the rapidly evolving area at the nexus between energy and climate change policy. The cutting-edge international contributions allow for a wide coverage of the topic. Energy Diversity and Security focuses on...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Awerbuch, Shimon, Bazilian, Morgan, Roques, Fabien A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston ; London : Elsevier Science, 2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Elsevier global energy policy and economics series ; 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Foreword 1 / R. Pachauri, TERI
  • Foreword 2 / Eddie O'Connor, Airtricity
  • Reader's Guide / the editors
  • Introduction: Analytic approaches to quantify and value fuel mMix diversity / the editors
  • Part I: Assessing risks, costs and fuel mix diversity for electric utilities
  • 1. Diversity and sustainable energy transitions: Multicriteria diversity analysis of electricity portfolios / by Andy Stirling
  • 2. The value of renewable energy as a hedge against fuel price risk: Analytic contributions from economic and finance theory / by Mark Bolinger and Ryan Wiser
  • 3. Using portfolio theory to value power generation investments / by the editors
  • 4. Use of real options as a policy-analysis tool / by William Blyth
  • Part II: Applying portfolio theory to identify optimal power generation portfolios
  • 5. Efficient electricity generating portfolios for Europe: Maximizing energy security and climate change mitigation / by Shimon Awerbuch and Spencer Yang
  • 6. Portfolio analysis of the future Dutch generating mix / by Jaap C. Jansen and Luuk Beurskens
  • 7. The role of wind generation in enhancing Scotland's energy diversity and security: A mean-variance portfolio optimization of Scotland's generating mix / by Shimon Awerbuch, in collaboration with Jaap C. Jansen and Luuk Beurskens
  • 8. Generation portfolio analysis for a carbon constrained and uncertain future / by Ronan Doherty, Hugh Outhred and Mark O'Malley
  • 9. The economics of renewable resource credits / by Christiaan Hogendorn and Paul Kleindorfer
  • Part III: Frontier applications of the mean-variance optimization model for electric utilities planning
  • 10. Efficient and secure power for the United States and Switzerland / by Boris Krey and Peter Zweifel
  • 11. Portfolio optimiztion and utilities' investments in liberalized power markets / by Fabien A. Roques, David M. Newbery, William J. Nuttall
  • 12. Risk management in a competitive electricity market / by Min Liu and Felix F. Wu
  • 13. Application of mean-variance analysis to locational value of generation assets / by Serhiy Kotsan and Stratford Douglas
  • 14. Risk, embodied technical change and irreversible investment decisions in UK electricity production: An optimum technology portfolio approach / by Adriaan van Zon and Sabine Fuss
  • Index
  • Shimon Awerbuch biography
  • Charity
  • About the editors.