This paper proposes an improved approach to risk assessment of generation investment in the new deregulated environment using the option pricing theory. A more realistic model for electricity price in the application of real option pricing method for generation asset valuation is proposed, which...

We analyse the effect of differing uncertainty assumptions on the costs of shareholder-bondholder conflicts arising from partially debt-financed investments. A partial equilibrium model, valid for a large class of diffusion processes, is developed and then applied to the specific cases of a...