Analytical methods for energy diversity and security portfolio optimization in the energy sector : a tribute to the work of Dr. Shimon Awerbuch - Awerbuch, Shimon; Bazilian, Morgan; Roques, Fabien A. (Amsterdam Elsevier Science, 2008)
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.
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