Analytical methods for energy diversity and security : portfolio optimization in the energy sector: a tribute to the work of Dr Shimon Awerbuch /: portfolio optimization in the energy sector: a tribute to the work of Dr Shimon Awerbuch. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Morgan Bazilian and Fabien Roques, editors.
• Other Names: Awerbuch, Shimon; Bazilian, Morgan; Roques, Fabien A
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Elsevier Science
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (364 pages)
• Subjects: 333.7932; Electric power systems -- Management; Electric power production; Electric utilities -- Risk management; Energietechnik; Energiewirtschaft
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080915319; 0080915310
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