ESCO business models for biomass heating and CHP: Profitability of ESCO operations in Italy and key factors assessment

A Pantaleo, C Candelise, A Bauen, N Shah - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper describes ESCO approaches and business models for biomass heating and
CHP generation. State of the art, policy measures and main barriers towards the …

Valuation of energy storage: An optimal switching approach

R Carmona, M Ludkovski - Quantitative finance, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
We consider the valuation of energy storage facilities within the framework of stochastic
control. Our two main examples are natural gas dome storage and hydroelectric pumped …

Multi-dimensional BSDE with oblique reflection and optimal switching

Y Hu, S Tang - Probability theory and related fields, 2010 - Springer
In this paper, we study a multi-dimensional backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE)
with oblique reflection, which is a BSDE reflected on the boundary of a special unbounded …

Pricing asset scheduling flexibility using optimal switching

R Carmona, M Ludkovski - Applied Mathematical Finance, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
We study the financial engineering aspects of operational flexibility of energy assets. The
current practice relies on a representation that uses strips of European spark‐spread …

The finite horizon optimal multi-modes switching problem: the viscosity solution approach

B El Asri, S Hamadene - Applied Mathematics and Optimization, 2009 - Springer
In this paper we show existence and uniqueness of a solution for a system of m variational
partial differential inequalities with inter-connected obstacles. This system is the …

Optimal dynamic policies for influenza management

M Ludkovski, J Niemi - Statistical Communications in Infectious …, 2010 - degruyter.com
Management policies for influenza outbreaks balance the expected morbidity and mortality
costs versus the cost of intervention policies. We present a methodology for dynamic …

Valuation of power plants by utility indifference and numerical computation

A Porchet, N Touzi, X Warin - Mathematical Methods of Operations …, 2009 - Springer
This paper presents a real option valuation model of a power plant, which accounts for
physical constraints and market incompleteness. Switching costs, minimum on-off times …

Swing options valuation: A bsde with constrained jumps approach

M Bernhart, H Pham, P Tankov, X Warin - Numerical Methods in Finance …, 2012 - Springer
We introduce a new probabilistic method for solving a class of impulse control problems
based on their representations as Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs for …

Optimal switching strategy of a mean-reverting asset over multiple regimes

K Suzuki - Automatica, 2016 - Elsevier
We solve optimal iterative three-regime switching problems with transaction costs, with
investment in a mean-reverting asset that follows an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process and find …

[PDF][PDF] Gas storage and supply guarantees: an optimal switching approach

R Carmona, M Ludkovski - submitted to Management Science, 2005 - Citeseer
We consider the valuation of gas storage on finite horizon. Focusing on the timing optionality
of storage we construct a stochastic control model that reduces to solving an optimal …