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A Model of Technology Selection by Cost Minimizing Producers

Dean W. Boyd, Robert L. Phillips, Stephan G. Regulinski

Management Science · 1982 · Volume 28 · Issue 4

DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.28.4.418

Abstract

A set of microeconomic assumptions are presented that lead to a model of the technology choices made by producers of a homogenous energy product. Under these assumptions it is possible to model the technology selection decision as being made solely to minimize product cost. Since the cost of producing energy using a particular technology will be different for different producers, a number of technologies will be adopted in the market rather than a single, “least-cost” technology.

Keywords

market share, energy modeling

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