Power Plants Investment Decision-Making in Consideration of Investment Risk

Fuzzy Investment Decision Making

Recent literature on fuzzy numbers is rich of several approaches to approximate operations between fuzzy numbers. The desirable feature is to preserve the real shape of the fuzzy numbers resulting from the operations, without loosing in simplicity and applicability and in goodness of the approximations. In some recent papers we introduce a representation of the fuzzy numbers, based on the use o...

Scenario-based decision-making for power systems investment planning

The optimization of power systems involves complex uncertainties, such as technological progress, political context, geopolitical constraints. Negotiations at COP21 are complicated by the huge number of scenarios that various people want to consider; these scenarios correspond to many uncertainties. These uncertainties are difficult to modelize as probabilities, due to the lack of data for futu...

Investment Risk of New Coal-Fired Power Plants

The decision to invest in new power plants is affected by the actions and evaluations of investors, regulators, utility managers, and power plant developers. Utility managers and power plant developers are key decision makers because it is their assessment of the market for electricity that drives the process. In regulated utility markets, regulators also play a crucial role, as their approval ...

Foreign Investment Decision - Making in Transition Economies

The purpose of this project is to describe and explain the foreign investment decision process in the uncertain and turbulent environment of transition economy. By getting an in-depth understanding of how decision-making works in the environment of transition economy, the study intends to contribute to the development of business administration theory in the area of foreign investment decision-...

Qualitative Reasoning Applications in Investment Decision-Making