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Investment risk of wind power
Investment risk of wind power

Author(s): Grażyna Paulina Wójcik, Jakub Woźniak
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Environmental and Energy policy, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Centrum Badań i Innowacji Pro-Akademia
Keywords: Wind energy; risk factors; return on investment; discount methods;

Summary/Abstract: The authors analysed investment risk of a wind farm construction in Poland. They specified key risk factors of investment projects and instruments that eliminate or minimize their impact. The article describes also methods that enable to estimate an impact of risk on profitability of the project. This paper is based on a number of newspapers, research articles and reports. The investment in a wind farm construction due to, among others, a long period of repayment, legal turmoil on green energy, is exposed to a number of factors that may affect profitability of the investment.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 13-23
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English