Title: Electricity Forward Curves: The Challenges of High-Resolution Estimation

Bio: Stein-Erik Fleten received the Ph.D. degree in operations research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, in 2000. He is currently Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. His areas of interest include electricity markets, hydro scheduling under uncertainty, hedging and risk management in electricity utilities, real options, and bidding in short-term electricity auctions. His main scientific fields are stochastic programming, finance and energy economics, with applications for electricity companies. He has been doing research on the liberalized electricity market since the 1990s. He has been a visiting scholar in University of British Columbia, University College London and University of Michigan. Fleten has extensive experience in participation and leadership of applied research projects, both nationally and internationally, within the electricity area.