State or market: Investments in new nuclear power plants in France and their domestic and cross-border effects

Can electric vehicle charging be carbon neutral? Uniting smart charging and renewables

“…At the end of each simulation year, the investment planning module calculates the expected net present values (NPV) of agents' flexible power plant options. The generation companies then decide which conventional power plants to add in case of a positive NPV (Fraunholz et al, 2019;Zimmermann et al, 2021;Zimmermann and Keles, 2022). However, to isolate the effect of shifting charging on emissions, we decided to apply the same power plant park to all charging scenarios.…”

Comparative Investment Analysis of Wind and Nuclear Energy: Assessing the Impact of Changes in the Electricity Mix and Required Government Support for Investment Parity

“…Finally, the investment analysis of modular nuclear energy in the literature is often compared to traditional nuclear energy (Locatelli et al, 2014;Mignacca and Locatelli, 2020;Zimmermann and Keles, 2023). They conclude that modular nuclear projects are more likely and quantitative than traditional nuclear projects to achieve a positive return on investment.…”

“…The existing literature is not optimistic about the performance of traditional nuclear energy projects in the investment market (Wealer, Bauer, Hirschhausen, Kemfert and Göke, 2021;Terlikowski, Paska, Pawlak, Kaliński and Urbanek, 2019). However, modular nuclear power plants, the most recent and promising nuclear technology, have also been investigated and found to have higher chances of becoming profitable (Locatelli, Bingham and Mancini, 2014;Mignacca and Locatelli, 2020;Zimmermann and Keles, 2023). Other relevant studies have pointed to the ongoing security concerns related to renewable energy and metal import requirements (Islam, Sohag, Hammoudeh, Mariev and Samargandi, 2022;Tokimatsu, Höök, McLellan, Wachtmeister, Murakami, Yasuoka and Nishio, 2018), as well as the volatility and instability of certain renewable energy technologies (Ciarreta, Pizarro-Irizar and Zarraga, 2020;Abrell, Rausch and Streitberger, 2019;Maniatis and Milonas, 2022).…”

A Forecasting Model for the Prediction of System Imbalance in the Greek Power System

“…Generation outages of dispatchable power sources can also be a great source of system imbalances since they usually cover a considerable part of system demand. An indicative recent example came from France in 2022, in which the unscheduled nuclear power plant outages caused imbalances not only in the French network, but also in neighbouring countries (e.g., Belgium), due to the interconnection between the neighboring countries [1].…”