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List of Figures<br />

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3.1 VaR <strong>and</strong> CVaR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56<br />

3.2 QQ-plot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58<br />

4.1 Hourly prices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />

4.2 Hourly payoff of gas turbine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />

4.3 Capped spot price. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79<br />

4.4 Gas spot price. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79<br />

4.5 Hydro storage plant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83<br />

4.6 Dispatch of hydro storage plant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84<br />

4.7 Difference between at- <strong>and</strong> in-the-money options. . . . . . . . 92<br />

4.8 Generation costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99<br />

4.9 Ranking of plants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100<br />

5.1 Price of a European call option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106<br />

5.2 Illustration of best hedge procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112<br />

6.1 Schematic figure of portfolio optimization. . . . . . . . . . . . 120<br />

6.2 a being concave <strong>and</strong> monotone increasing in b. . . . . . . . . 134<br />

6.3 Lower envelope of the dual variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139<br />

6.4 Spot price quantiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143<br />

6.5 Arbitrage between futures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153<br />

6.6 Static value decomposition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155<br />

6.7 Positioning of contracts <strong>and</strong> plants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166<br />

7.1 Scenarios of the three stochastic processes. . . . . . . . . . . 171<br />

7.2 Optimal water level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174<br />

7.3 Expected profit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178<br />

7.4 Future position <strong>and</strong> average spot position. . . . . . . . . . . . 180<br />

7.5 Average price of produced electricity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

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