Wildfires pose a significant risk to the state of California, causing capital stock destruction and broader economic impacts. Many of the most destructive fires have been ignited by electricity infrastructure. To reduce ignition risk, electric utilities have begun a program of Public Safety...

Motivated by the current global vicissitudes, this study examines the impact of uncertainty (economic and political) and behavioural factors on the pricing of cryptocurrencies. We show that uncertainty does not significantly drive crypto prices. However, the interaction between the sentiments...

Une problématique qui se pose dès lors que certaines activités électriques sont ouvertes à la concurrence est le pouvoir de marché. Le passage des prix régulés à des prix concurrentiels accroît les possibilités de manipulation des prix par les entreprises. Cet article est centré sur...

Environmental regulation can be broadly divided into those that follow the top-down and bottom-up approaches. The two approaches have similar objective with respect to environmental protection and sustainability. However, the success with which each approach achieves goals of environmental...

This report’s primary aim is to provide yield projections for the proposed Linear Fresnel Reflector (LFR) technology plant at Collinsville, Queensland, Australia. However, the techniques developed in this report to overcome inadequate datasets at Collinsville to produce the yield projections...

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...

This report primarily aims to provide both dispatch and wholesale spot price forecasts for the lifetime of the proposed hybrid gas-solar thermal plant at Collinsville. This report is the second of two reports and uses the findings of Bell, Wild and Foster (2014b) in the first report.

Investments in power generation assets are risky due to high construction costs and long asset lifetimes. Technology diversification in generation portfolios represents one option to reduce long-term investment risks for risk-averse decision makers. In this article, we analyze the impact of...

In this article we discuss welfare-optimal capacity allocation of different electricity generation technologies available for serving system demand. While the classical peak load pricing theory derives the efficient portfolio structure from a deterministic marginal production cost curve ("merit...