Essays about: "switching cost electricity"

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  1. 6. The Counteraction of the Merit Order Effect: Wind Power and Strategic Withholding on the Swedish Electricity Market

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Joel Blanke; Gustav Tillman; [2019]
    Keywords : Electricity Markets; Market Power; Merit Order Effect; Nord Pool; Switching Regression Model;

    Abstract : One of the posited benefits of renewable energy in electricity markets is its potential to drive down prices - the merit order effect. However, diversified firms with both renewable and conventional energy production in their portfolios have an incentive to counteract such an effect by withholding their high cost production. READ MORE

  3. 7. Decarbonizing Public Bus Transport – a case study on Curitiba, Brazil

    University essay from KTH/Energi och klimatstudier, ECS

    Author : Joana Lena Düllmann Vasques Pereira; [2018]
    Keywords : Battery electric bus; Brazil; Charging station; Curitiba; Greenhouse gas emissions; Opportunity charging; Optimisation; Public transport network; Brasil; Carregamento de oportunidade; Curitiba; Estação de recarga; Gases com efeito de estufa; Ônibus eléctricos a baterias; Otimisação; Sistema de Transporte Público; Batteribuss; Brasilien; Laddstation; Curitiba; Växthusgas utsläpp; Opportunity Charging; optimering; kollektivtrafik;

    Abstract : Air pollution is becoming a major issue in cities across the world, its common cause being the use of fossil fuel combustion engines in both private and collective transport modes. However, alternative technologies, such as biofuels, hybrid and battery electric vehicles, are on the rise. READ MORE

  4. 8. Solarizing Indian agriculture by deploying solar irrigation pumps

    University essay from KTH/Energisystemanalys

    Author : Tobias Dylan Dekker; [2015]
    Keywords : solar pumps; India; Gujarat; Anand; IWMI; International Water Management Organisation; farmers; farm; farmer; agriculture; crop; water; grid; grid stability; solar;

    Abstract : Solar Irrigation Pumps (SIPs) are used to pump (ground and surface) water to irrigate farm lands. In a country with a historical mismatch of energy supply and demand, and almost 120 million families dependent on earnings from agriculture (Prachi Salve, 2014), SIPs offer great prospects. READ MORE

  5. 9. Optimal Transmission Switchingfor Reducing Market Power Cost

    University essay from KTH/Elektriska energisystem

    Author : Maria Alejandra Noriega Odor; [2012]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The conventional transmission planning tends to focus exclusively on efficiency benefit, allowing cheaper remote generation to have priority dispatch over expensivelocal generation (least cost approach). Because of this nowadays deregulatedmarkets face the problem that their systems affect the competitiveness of players,giving room for players to exercise market power. READ MORE

  6. 10. Local Investment Programmes in Sweden Pulling the pulp and paper industry to profitable investments A study of four bioenergy projects in the Swedish pulp and paper industry

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Margarethe Forssman; [2004]
    Keywords : bioenergy investment; wood fuels; biofuel; pulp and paper industry; Environmental studies; Miljöstudier; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Switching from oil to biofuels appears to be good business for the Swedish pulp and paper industry today. Mixing traditional wood fuels with sludge residues makes the transition even more profitable. READ MORE