Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/103286 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
EWL Working Paper No. 06/12
Publisher: 
University of Duisburg-Essen, Chair for Management Science and Energy Economics, Essen
Abstract: 
This paper links Hotelling's theory, in recent literature applied to an emission constrained environment, with the classical capacity planning framework to describe portfolio time-paths in electricity production. Emission targets are considered by a ceiling on the stock of pollution. We propose conditions for an efficient production portfolio as a subset of available technologies. We then derive potential production portfolio time-paths for a renewable, a fossil and a carbon capturing technology that differ according to their fixed and variable costs, their efficiency and their polluting characteristics. We conclude that the share of the fossil technology will continuously decrease, the scarce resource will be fully exploited. On each constrained path, the stock of pollution will remain at the ceiling for a non-zero time period. Emission targets push down scarcity rents, an option for carbon capturing would decrease societal costs and uphold scarcity rents.
Subjects: 
Scarce resources
Optimal control theory
Hotelling
Valuation
Non-renewable resource
Pollution target
Climate change
Peak-load-pricing
JEL: 
C61
Q32
Q41
L94
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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