Optimal Power Generation Portfolios with Renewables: An Application to the UK
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- Rowan Adams & Tooraj Jamasb, 2016. "Optimal Power Generation Portfolios with Renewables: An Application to the UK," Working Papers EPRG 1620, Energy Policy Research Group, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
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Electricity; portfolio theory; technology; risk;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General
- Q42 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Alternative Energy Sources
- Q49 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Other
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2016-09-04 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-EUR-2016-09-04 (Microeconomic European Issues)
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