Mainstream Renewable Power has announced the publication of a report by Dr Mark Cooper, which seeks to apply modern investment portfolio theory to energy policy.
It does so with the aim of helping policymakers attain an important, urgent policy objective: managing the decarbonisation of the electricity sector, while maintaining affordability and energy security. The report “Capturing the Value of Offshore Wind”, develops a policy framework to enable the most effective transition to a low carbon economy. Applying principles of investment theory, Dr Cooper shows that policy makers need to incentivise sources of energy that will provide a hedge against the risk of fuel price volatility and protect consumers from bearing the cost of that risk and uncertainty.
It does so with the aim of helping policymakers attain an important, urgent policy objective: managing the decarbonisation of the electricity sector, while maintaining affordability and energy security. The report “Capturing the Value of Offshore Wind”, develops a policy framework to enable the most effective transition to a low carbon economy. Applying principles of investment theory, Dr Cooper shows that policy makers need to incentivise sources of energy that will provide a hedge against the risk of fuel price volatility and protect consumers from bearing the cost of that risk and uncertainty.
