Hydropower Economics

• Main Author: Førsund, Finn R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2015.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 217
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Power electronics.; Environmental economics.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Environmental Economics.; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.

Hydropower Economics provides qualitative economic analyses of how to utilize stored water in a hydropower system with fixed generating capacities. The problem is dynamic because water used today to generate electric power may alternatively be used tomorrow. The distinctive feature of the book is to...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Water as a Natural Resource
• Hydropower with Constraints
• Multiple Producers
• Mix of Thermal and Hydropower Plants
• Trade
• Intermittent Energy
• Pumped-storage Hydroelectricity
• Uncertainty
• Transmission
• Market Power
• Summary and Conclusions.