Capacity Factor Risk At Nuclear Power Plants

We develop a model of the dynamic structure of capacity factor risk. It incorporates the risk that the capacity factor may vary widely from year-to-year, and also the risk that the reactor may be permanently shutdown prior to the end of its anticipated useful life. We then fit the parameters of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Du, Yangbo, Parsons, John E.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61776