Antonio J. Conejo, professor at Ohio State University, received his MS from MIT and his PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has published over 165 papers in SCI journals and has authored or coauthored books published by Springer, John Wiley, McGraw-Hill, and CRC. An IEEE Fellow, he has been the principal investigator in many research projects financed by public agencies and the power industry and has supervised 19 PhD theses.

Luis Baringo, assistant professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain, received his Industrial Engineering degree and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. In 2014, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Power Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

S. Jalal Kazempour, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, received his BS from the University of Tabriz, Iran in 2006, his MS from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran in 2009, and his PhD from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain in 2013, all in the field of electrical engineering. In 2014, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Afzal S. Siddiqui, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Statistical Science at University College London, received the B.S. from Columbia University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (all in industrial engineering and operations research). His research interests are in decision making under uncertainty in the energy sector. Besides having participated in several externally funded projects, he has coordinated an EU project on risk management and energy efficiency in public buildings. He also holds visiting positions at Stockholm University and Aalto University.

Presents a detailed description of tools for making informed decisions regarding investment in electricity transmission and generation

Written in a tutorial and modular style and includes a large number of illustrative examples

Provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of current investment problems in electric energy systems

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Investment in Generation and Transmission Facilities.- Transmission Expansion Planning.- Generation Expansion Planning.- Generation and Transmission Expansion Planning.- Investment in Production Capacity.- Investment Equilibria.- Deciding on Alternative Investments: a Real Options Approach.