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Income risk of EU coal-fired power plants after Kyoto
dc.contributor.author | Abadie, Luis María | es |
dc.contributor.author | Chamorro Gómez, José Manuel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-01-26T19:30:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-01-26T19:30:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-10 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/6508 | |
dc.description.abstract | Coal-fired power plants may enjoy a significant advantage relative to gas plants in terms of cheaper fuel cost. Still, this advantage may erode or even turn into disadvantage depending on CO2 emission allowance price. This price will presumably rise in both the Kyoto Protocol commitment period (2008-2012) and the first post-Kyoto years. Thus, in a carbon-constrained environment, coal plants face financial risks arising in their profit margins, which in turn hinge on their so-called "clean dark spread". These risks are further reinforced when the price of the output electricity is determined by natural gas-fired plants' marginal costs, which differ from coal plants' costs. We aim to assess the risks in coal plants' margins. We adopt parameter values estimated from empirical data. These in turn are derived from natural gas and electricity markets alongside the EU ETS market where emission allowances are traded. Monte Carlo simulation allows to compute the expected value and risk profile of coal-based electricity generation. We focus on the clean dark spread in both time periods under different future scenarios in the allowance market. Specifically, bottom 5% and 10% percentiles are derived. According to our results, certain future paths of the allowance price may impose significant risks on the clean dark spread obtained by coal plants. | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Ikerlanak 2008.33 | |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | * |
dc.subject | clean dark spread | es |
dc.subject | clean spark spread | es |
dc.subject | EU Emissions Trading Scheme | es |
dc.subject | Monte Carlo | es |
dc.title | Income risk of EU coal-fired power plants after Kyoto | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper | es |
dc.rights.holder | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported | * |
dc.subject.jel | C6 | |
dc.subject.jel | E2 | |
dc.subject.jel | D8 | |
dc.subject.jel | G3 | |
dc.identifier.repec | RePEc:ehu:ikerla:200833 | es |
dc.departamentoes | Economía financiera II | es_ES |
dc.departamentoes | Fundamentos del análisis económico I | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Ekonomia analisiaren oinarriak I | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Finantza ekonomia II | es_ES |
dc.subject.categoria | MACROECONOMICS AND MONETARY ECONOMICS | |
dc.subject.categoria | MICROECONOMICS | |
dc.subject.categoria | FINANCIAL ECONOMICS | |
dc.subject.categoria | MATHEMATICAL AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS |