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Klappentext "This tribute book explores different facets of fuel mix diversity and its impact on secruity of supply and technology choices in the power sector. It describes how new tools borrowed from the financial economic theory can provide insights on the costs and benefits of diversity. Influenced by the groundbreaking research by Dr. Simon Awerbuch, the various contributions explore the potential of such analytical techniques when applied to electric utility planning."--Jacket. Zusammenfassung Features insights in the area of electricity capacity planning. This book evaluates the role of renewables in enhancing energy diversity. It is suitable for professionals in academia! industry and government interested in the world of electricity planning. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Mix 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...
