Sammendrag
Peak power plants have high operating and maintenance costs when kept ready to operate. Therefore, plant managers sometimes put their plants in a standby state, or retire them. Using structural estimation, we estimate the maintenance cost for the operating states (operating ready, standby) and switching costs for startup, shutdown and retirement actions. Our approach extends recent contributions in structural estimation, combining nonparametric statistics with nonlinear programming.
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