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Overview of Energy Markets and Prices

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The overall objective of this chapter is to analyze the price setting mechanism and price development of various types of primary energy (crude oil, coal, nuclear, natural gas) used for power generation. The analysis covers the period from 1970 until the year of publishing this book as far as data from publicly accessible statistics were available. The purpose is to draw conclusions for future fuel price approaches in project evaluation.

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Konstantin, P., Konstantin, M. (2018). Overview of Energy Markets and Prices. In: Power and Energy Systems Engineering Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72383-9_8

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