Universal life insurance policies are distinguished by flexible premiums and adjustable levels of coverage.
Bundles — super-flexible premium content offerings that let the creators set whatever kind of payment option they like around them, including paygates, for part of the offering — are BitTorrent's biggest effort to date to turn its peer-to-peer distribution network into a legit, revenue-generating business, both for itself but also for those making the content.
The Annuities segment includes single-premium and flexible-premium deferred annuities and also markets limited fixed annuities.
For biogas plants, the uptake of the flexibility premium provides insight into whether the conditions for a demand-based, flexible operation are at least in existence [45,46]: In April 2014, 370 installations with approximately 216 MWel claimed the flexibility premium, which corresponds to roughly 11% of the installed biogas and biomethane capacities participating in direct marketing [39].
Nevertheless, Hochloff and Braun [75] show that the best economic results including the flexibility premium are achieved by using the largest CHP unit (2.0 MW) for flexible power generation from biogas plants.
Receiving the flexibility premium does not, in and of itself, guarantee that plants are operated in a flexible mode however, as plants have to prove their technical ability to do so, it is an indicator of the available flexibility potential.
Specifically, the flexibility premium guarantees that the biogas operator has created the necessary technical conditions to generate electricity in a flexible way (e.g. additional CHP capacities).
However, in combination, the EEG's flexibility premium and the opportunity to achieve revenues in balancing markets when participating in direct marketing have caused a growing number of existing biogas plants to implement adjustments allowing for a flexible production mode.
It has also come up with ideas that appeal to business travellers, like flexible tickets, premium seating and priority boarding.
The proposals do suggest that "flexible pay premiums, essentially wage subsidies, could be allotted to specialties and individuals disproportionately penalised by the new contract, but mental health is worth far more than such an unsubtle sticking plaster.
