drivers, such as consumer demand for green power, natural gas price volatility, and wholesale market rules. …

price to be stochastic, we next determine an investment threshold boundary and find that high electricity price volatility …

Advocates of renewable energy have long argued that wind power and other renewable technologies can mitigate fuel price … risk within a resource portfolio. Such arguments--made with renewed vigor in the wake of unprecedented natural gas price … volatility during the winter of 2000/2001--have mostly been qualitative in nature, however, with few attempts to actually …

Advocates of energy efficiency and renewable energy have long argued that such technologies can mitigate fuel price … risk within a resource portfolio. Such arguments--made with renewed vigor in the wake of unprecedented natural gas price … volatility during the winter of 2000/2001--have mostly been qualitative in nature, however, with few attempts to actually …

substantial volatility in wholesale market prices, significant financial distress among major industry organizations, and …

-gas-fired generation (as opposed to coal-fired generation, for example), for several reasons: (1) price volatility has been more of a …-term natural gas price forecasts from the AEO series to contemporaneous natural gas prices that can be locked in through the … forward market, with the goal of better understanding fuel price risk and the role that renewables can play in mitigating such …

be stochastic, we next determine an investment threshold boundary and find that high electricity price volatility … increases DG investment, while the option to disconnect from the utility is not attractive. By allowing the electricity price to …

), for several reasons: (1) price volatility has been more of a concern for natural gas than for other fuels used to generate …-term natural gas price forecasts from the AEO series to contemporaneous natural gas prices that can be locked in through the … forward market, with the goal of better understanding fuel price risk and the role that renewables can play in mitigating such …

price volatility. In particular, with the availability of the HX, the microgrid faces a tradeoff between reducing its … exposure to the natural gas price and maximising its cost savings. By varying the volatility parameter, we find that the … contemplatingthe installation of gas-fired DG has to be aware of the uncertainty in the natural gas price. Treatment of uncertainty via …