Feasibility of a CSP Power Plant in Chile under a PPA Model, the Role of Soft Financing and Upfront Grant

Are the Purchase Prices of Solar Energy Projects under Development Consistent with Cost of Capital Forecasts?

“…At this point, it should be noted that the current regulatory framework for renewable energies in Spain highlights different sources of uncertainty, such as the volatility in the price of energy or pool price. This fact has greatly encouraged the use of power purchase agreements (PPAs) to hedge buyers against energy price volatility both in wind and solar projects [17,18], where PPA contractual terms are often protected by nondisclosure agreements, and publicly available corporate data is usually of limited utility. In this context, our base case assumes a nominal installed capacity of 40 MW, with an operating life of 30 years.…”

Renewable energy in copper production: A review on systems design and methodological approaches

“…(5) Servert et al (2015) analyze the economic feasibility of providing electricity for mining operations with a CSP plant using a probabilistic model for the energy price. The approach of this study is single-vector and full-process with aggregated demand.…”

MONTE-CARLO probabilistic valuation of concentrated solar power systems in Spain under the 2014 retroactive regulatory framework

“…In the second group there would be those articles that treat the non-deterministic economic valuation of CSP assets using the discounted cash flow (DCF)-Monte Carlo (MC) method [18,[20][21][22][23]31,36]. In all of these articles except [18], the MC analysis relied on the calculation of the LCOE.…”

“…In the second group there would be those articles that treat the non-deterministic economic valuation of CSP assets using the discounted cash flow (DCF)-Monte Carlo (MC) method [18,[20][21][22][23]31,36]. In all of these articles except [18], the MC analysis relied on the calculation of the LCOE. Likewise, the main stochastic input parameters were the fixed and variable operating costs, the capital and investment cost, the discount and inflation rates, the capacity factor and the asset lifetime.…”

“…Likewise, the main stochastic input parameters were the fixed and variable operating costs, the capital and investment cost, the discount and inflation rates, the capacity factor and the asset lifetime. Moreover, from the location analysis point of view, the United States was the country that deserved more considerable attention among all these articles [20,[22][23], followed by Chile [18], Australia [31] and Italy [36]. Some insights can be drawn through the state of the art analysis.…”