The 3rd edition of Economic Evaluation of Projects in the Electricity Supply Industry takes a broad introductory approach, covering market and environmental issues, financial analysis and evaluation, clean environmental technologies and costs.

Hisham Khatib is Honorary Vice Chairman of the World Energy Council and a member of the World Federation of Scientists Energy Permanent Monitoring Panel. He is a founding member of the WEC Committee on Clean Fossil Fuels Studies, and the committee on Performance of Generating Plants. During the last twenty five years he has consulted to many international and regional development and environmental agencies on different aspects of energy, electrical power, water, local and global environmental issues. He has co-authored many books related to energy, including the UNDP/UNDESA/ WEC World Energy Assessment study 'Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability'.

• Chapter 1: Global electrical power planning, investments and projects


• Chapter 2: Considerations in project evaluation


• Chapter 3: Time value of money (discounting)


• Chapter 4: Choice of the discount rate


• Chapter 5: Financial evaluation of projects


• Chapter 6: Considerations in project evaluation


• Chapter 7: Economic evaluation of projects


• Chapter 8: Environmental considerations, cost estimation and long term discounting in project evaluation


• Chapter 9: Electricity generation in a carbon-constrained world: Part I - The strategies, national requirements and global agreements


• Chapter 10: Electricity generation in a carbon-constrained world: Part II - The technologies


• Chapter 11: Economics of reliability of the power supply


• Chapter 12: Economics of new renewables: is there viable energy at the end of the renewables tunnel?


• Chapter 13: Electricity trading


• Chapter 14: Evolvement of the electricity sector - utility for the future


• Chapter 15: Investment projects analysis: evaluation of risk and uncertainty


• Chapter 16: Risk management - in electricity markets


• Appendices