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Hedging Strategy and Electricity Contract Engineering - IFOR

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166 Power portfolio optimization<br />

Efficient frontier<br />

Attractive<br />

(2)<br />

Expected profit<br />

(1)<br />

(3) Inattractive<br />

Risk<br />

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

with the same arguing as before go short in that contract reducing the risk by<br />

prof it<br />

one unit, but also penalizing the expected profit with . The reduced risk<br />

risk<br />

utilization would however allow us to further leverage on the contracts made<br />

available in the original optimization <strong>and</strong> increase the expected profit with<br />

prof it<br />

yú1 î 0.<br />

risk<br />

The efficient frontier 6 can be very helpful in positioning contracts <strong>and</strong> plants<br />

according to the marginal value of risk, since the slope of the efficient frontier<br />

gives the marginal price of risk.<br />

Corollary 6.13<br />

The efficient frontier zÛ CÝ is piecewise linear <strong>and</strong> concave.<br />

A proof is given in Appendix A on page 199.<br />

Assume that our optimal portfolio conditioned on the investment opportunity<br />

set is given by Û 1Ý in Figure 6.7. A contract or plant added to the investment<br />

6 The efficient frontier is the plot z0 C1 C . The term efficient frontier is normally used<br />

for a whole market <strong>and</strong> not as in this case for a specific player.

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