Why Wind Is Not Coal: On the Economics of Electricity
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- Hirth, Lion & Ueckerdt, Falko & Edenhofer, Ottmar, 2014. "Why Wind Is Not Coal: On the Economics of Electricity," Energy: Resources and Markets 172433, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
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Keywords
Power Generation; Electricity Sector; Integrated Assessment Modeling; Variable Renewables; Integration Costs; Welfare Economics; Power Economics; Levelized Electricity Cost; Grid Parity;All these keywords.
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- Q42 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Alternative Energy Sources
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
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