Optimization of Korean energy planning for sustainability considering uncertainties in learning rates and external factors

Seunghyok Kim, Jamin Koo, Chang Jun Lee and En Sup Yoon

Energy, 2012, vol. 44, issue 1, 126-134

Abstract: During the last few decades, energy planning has focused on meeting domestic demand at lower total costs. However, global warming and the shared recognition of it have transformed the problem of energy planning into a more complex task with a greater number of issues to be considered. Since the key issue is to reduce greenhouse effects, governments around the world have begun to make investments in renewable energy systems (e.g., hydro, wind, solar, and/or biomass power). The relatively high costs of renewable energy systems and the uncertain outlook of their rate of diffusion in the market make it difficult to heavily rely on them. The uncertain variations in production cost over time are especially challenging. To handle uncertainties, the concept of the learning rate was adopted in this study so as to compute the costs of energy systems in the future and Monte Carlo simulation was performed.

Keywords: Energy planning; Renewable energy; Optimization; Learning rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.02.062

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