In the highly capital-intensive electricity supply industry, it is essential that both engineers and managers understand the methodologies of project evaluation in order to comprehend and analyse investment proposals and decisions. This updated and expanded edition of Economic Evaluation of Projects in the Electricity Supply Industry takes a broad introductory approach, covering planning and investment, financial analysis and evaluation, risk management, electricity trading, and strategies, technologies, national requirements and global agreements for electricity generation in a carbon-constrained world.

• Chapter 1: Global electrical power planning, investments and projects
• Chapter 2: Considerations in project evaluation
• Chapter 3: Time value of money (discounting)
• Chapter 4: Choice of the discount rate
• Chapter 5: Financial evaluation of projects
• Chapter 6: Considerations in project evaluation
• Chapter 7: Economic evaluation of projects
• Chapter 8: Environmental considerations, cost estimation and long term discounting in project evaluation
• Chapter 9: Electricity generation in a carbon-constrained world: Part I - The strategies, national requirements and global agreements
• Chapter 10: Electricity generation in a carbon-constrained world: Part II - The technologies
• Chapter 11: Economics of reliability of the power supply
• Chapter 12: Economics of new renewables: is there viable energy at the end of the renewables tunnel?
• Chapter 13: Electricity trading
• Chapter 14: Evolvement of the electricity sector - utility for the future
• Chapter 15: Investment projects analysis: evaluation of risk and uncertainty
• Chapter 16: Risk management - in electricity markets
• Appendices