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Contents<br />

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5.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103<br />

5.2 Traditional hedging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104<br />

5.3 Relevance for electricity hedging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109<br />

5.4 Best Hedge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110<br />

6. Power portfolio optimization 115<br />

6.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115<br />

6.2 Traditional power portfolio optimizations . . . . . . . . . . . 116<br />

6.3 Power portfolio optimization in general . . . . . . . . . . . . 117<br />

6.4 Modeling of plants <strong>and</strong> their operational flexibility . . . . . . 121<br />

6.5 Analysis of optimal dispatch strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130<br />

6.6 Power portfolio optimization with CVaR . . . . . . . . . . . . 143<br />

6.7 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167<br />

7. Case study 169<br />

7.1 Efficient frontier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177<br />

7.2 Spot position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179<br />

7.3 <strong>Hedging</strong> value of water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180<br />

7.4 Value decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183<br />

7.5 Dispatch strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186<br />

7.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187<br />

8. Conclusions 191<br />

A. Proofs 193<br />

Bibliography 210

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