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A Stochastic Control Model For Electricity Producers, Charles William Beer
A Stochastic Control Model For Electricity Producers, Charles William Beer
Theses and Dissertations
Modern electricity pricing models include a strong reversion to a long run mean and a
number of non-local operators to encapsulate the discontinuous price behavior observed in
such markets. However, incorporating non-local processes into a stochastic control problem
presents significant analytical challenges. The motivation for this work is to solve the problem
of optimal control of the burn rate for a coal-powered electricity plant. We first construct a
pricing model that is a good general representative of the class of models currently used for
electricity pricing as well as a model for the supply of fuel to the plant. Under …