In light of intensive development of the renewable energy (RE) sector, a growing number of
academic papers address the complexity of RE investment planning and valuation. To take …

Environmental concerns have stimulated the search for economically feasible renewable
energy projects. One such alternative is the use of biomass for energy generation, which has …

The main idea of a circular economy (CE) is to separate economic growth from resource
consumption and environmental impacts. The characteristic approach of a CE assumes the …

We calculate the overall policy value of installed capacity additions and investment
expenditures in wind and solar energies in India. Recent increases in capacity additions and …

Large-scale development of distributed generation power plants has given rise to new
critical problems for the design and management of energy systems and electric grids. It is …

Minimum revenue guarantees, where the government assumes a portion of the traffic risk to
guarantee a minimum level of revenue and profitability to the investors, is a standard risk …

The Brazilian production of major food commodities increased fivefold between 1961 and
2008. In the same time, the area cropped with sugar cane increased with high growth rates …

We propose a dynamic investment model to study investment behavior for power grid-
stabilizing, flexibility-providing energy projects. Our model adds to the literature in several …

The value of a representative ethanol producer, that benefits from both low and high
gasoline prices in the short-run, is modeled. Ethanol producers make a modest competitive …

This work proposes a dynamic model to devise the optimal risk-averse investment policy in a
portfolio of complementary renewable sources for a generation company in the Brazilian …