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Hedging Strategy and Electricity Contract Engineering - IFOR

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1.3 Structure of the thesis 5<br />

hedge is introduced. In Chapter 6 portfolio optimization in the electricity market<br />

is introduced. A, for the electricity market, new approach, accounting not<br />

only for expected profit but also for risk, is presented, where a portfolio of<br />

production assets <strong>and</strong> power contracts is optimized in a profit <strong>and</strong> Conditional<br />

Value at Risk framework. The importance <strong>and</strong> assessment of operational flexibility<br />

in production is investigated <strong>and</strong> the chapter is concluded by a positioning<br />

of contracts <strong>and</strong> plants, where the attractiveness of different assets is estimated.<br />

In Chapter 7 an optimization of a real power portfolio is conducted <strong>and</strong> the<br />

results of this case study are presented. Finally, in Chapter 8 our conclusions<br />

are presented.

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