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Title: Hedging Carbon Risk: Protecting Customers and Shareholders from the Financial Risk Associated with Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Journal Article · · Electricity Journal

Utilities and regulators are recognizing the imprudence of assuming that carbon dioxide emissions will not cost anything over the long lifetime of new investments. Several utilities have begun to protect their customers and shareholders from this financial risk by integrating an estimated cost of carbon dioxide emissions into their evaluation of resource options, and selecting the overall least-cost portfolio of resources.

OSTI ID:
20677677
Journal Information:
Electricity Journal, Vol. 18, Issue 6; Other Information: Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved; ISSN 1040-6190
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English