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Energy Trading, Emission Certificates and Risk Management

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One of the tasks of a utility company is to manage the risks that arise from the gaps between the obligation to make future deliveries of energy and the company’s assets. The goal of this chapter is to provide insights into these gaps and to discuss some risk management concepts and instruments that can be used to actively manage these risks.

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  1. Erasmus School of Economics, Applied Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, , The Netherlands

    Ronald Huisman

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  1. School of Humanities and Social Sc., Dept. Strategic Management and, International University of Bremen, Campus Ring 1, Bremen, 28759, Germany

    Andreas Bausch

  2. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH, Am Sandtorkai 41, Hamburg, 20457, Germany

    Burkhard Schwenker

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Huisman, R. (2008). Energy Trading, Emission Certificates and Risk Management. In: Bausch, A., Schwenker, B. (eds) Handbook Utility Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79349-6_21

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