Download or read book Regional Electricity Market Design Regional Electricity Market Design written by Lindboe, Hans Henrik and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do current electricity market designs ensure a sufficient electricity supply at all times? This topic is currently the subject of intense debate across Europe, and several major countries such as Germany, the UK, France and Italy have decided that additional measures – so-called capacity remuneration mechanisms - are needed to supplement current market designs. This report describes and analyses the advantages and disadvantages of a range of measures proposed or currently implemented across Europe, and includes both best estimates of how the implementation of these measures will impact Nordic electricity prices as well as recommendations to the Nordic countries regarding a cost-efficient path to ensuring the Nordic security of supply.
Download or read book Regional Electricity Market Design Regional Electricity Market Design written by HANS HENRIK; HAGMAN LINDBOE (BJORN; CHRISTENSEN) and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Regional Electricity Market Design Regional Electricity Market Design written by Lindboe, Hans Henrik and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do current electricity market designs ensure a sufficient electricity supply at all times? This topic is currently the subject of intense debate across Europe, and several major countries such as Germany, the UK, France and Italy have decided that additional measures – so-called capacity remuneration mechanisms - are needed to supplement current market designs. This report describes and analyses the advantages and disadvantages of a range of measures proposed or currently implemented across Europe, and includes both best estimates of how the implementation of these measures will impact Nordic electricity prices as well as recommendations to the Nordic countries regarding a cost-efficient path to ensuring the Nordic security of supply.
Download or read book The Economics of Electricity Markets written by Darryl R. Biggar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridges the knowledge gap between engineering and economics in a complex and evolving deregulated electricity industry, enabling readers to understand, operate, plan and design a modern power system With an accessible and progressive style written in straight-forward language, this book covers everything an engineer or economist needs to know to understand, operate within, plan and design an effective liberalized electricity industry, thus serving as both a useful teaching text and a valuable reference. The book focuses on principles and theory which are independent of any one market design. It outlines where the theory is not implemented in practice, perhaps due to other over-riding concerns. The book covers the basic modelling of electricity markets, including the impact of uncertainty (an integral part of generation investment decisions and transmission cost-benefit analysis). It draws out the parallels to the Nordpool market (an important point of reference for Europe). Written from the perspective of the policy-maker, the first part provides the introductory background knowledge required. This includes an understanding of basic economics concepts such as supply and demand, monopoly, market power and marginal cost. The second part of the book asks how a set of generation, load, and transmission resources should be efficiently operated, and the third part focuses on the generation investment decision. Part 4 addresses the question of the management of risk and Part 5 discusses the question of market power. Any power system must be operated at all times in a manner which can accommodate the next potential contingency. This demands responses by generators and loads on a very short timeframe. Part 6 of the book addresses the question of dispatch in the very short run, introducing the distinction between preventive and corrective actions and why preventive actions are sometimes required. The seventh part deals with pricing issues that arise under a regionally-priced market, such as the Australian NEM. This section introduces the notion of regions and interconnectors and how to formulate constraints for the correct pricing outcomes (the issue of "constraint orientation"). Part 8 addresses the fundamental and difficult issue of efficient transmission investment, and finally Part 9 covers issues that arise in the retail market. Bridges the gap between engineering and economics in electricity, covering both the economics and engineering knowledge needed to accurately understand, plan and develop the electricity market Comprehensive coverage of all the key topics in the economics of electricity markets Covers the latest research and policy issues as well as description of the fundamental concepts and principles that can be applied across all markets globally Numerous worked examples and end-of-chapter problems Companion website holding solutions to problems set out in the book, also the relevant simulation (GAMS) codes
Download or read book Competitive Electricity Markets written by Fereidoon Sioshansi and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 2 decades, policymakers and regulators agree that electricity market reform, liberalization and privatization remains partly art. Moreover, the international experience suggests that in nearly all cases, initial market reform leads to unintended consequences or introduces new risks, which must be addressed in subsequent “reform of the reforms. Competitive Electricity Markets describes the evolution of the market reform process including a number of challenging issues such as infrastructure investment, resource adequacy, capacity and demand participation, market power, distributed generation, renewable energy and global climate change. Sequel to Electricity Market Reform: An International Perspective in the same series published in 2006 Contributions from renowned scholars and practitioners on significant electricity market design and implementation issues Covers timely topics on the evolution of electricity market liberalization worldwide
Download or read book The Power of Change written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electricity, supplied reliably and affordably, is foundational to the U.S. economy and is utterly indispensable to modern society. However, emissions resulting from many forms of electricity generation create environmental risks that could have significant negative economic, security, and human health consequences. Large-scale installation of cleaner power generation has been generally hampered because greener technologies are more expensive than the technologies that currently produce most of our power. Rather than trade affordability and reliability for low emissions, is there a way to balance all three? The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Energy Technologies considers how to speed up innovations that would dramatically improve the performance and lower the cost of currently available technologies while also developing new advanced cleaner energy technologies. According to this report, there is an opportunity for the United States to continue to lead in the pursuit of increasingly clean, more efficient electricity through innovation in advanced technologies. The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Energy Technologies makes the case that America's advantagesâ€"world-class universities and national laboratories, a vibrant private sector, and innovative states, cities, and regions that are free to experiment with a variety of public policy approachesâ€"position the United States to create and lead a new clean energy revolution. This study focuses on five paths to accelerate the market adoption of increasing clean energy and efficiency technologies: (1) expanding the portfolio of cleaner energy technology options; (2) leveraging the advantages of energy efficiency; (3) facilitating the development of increasing clean technologies, including renewables, nuclear, and cleaner fossil; (4) improving the existing technologies, systems, and infrastructure; and (5) leveling the playing field for cleaner energy technologies. The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Energy Technologies is a call for leadership to transform the United States energy sector in order to both mitigate the risks of greenhouse gas and other pollutants and to spur future economic growth. This study's focus on science, technology, and economic policy makes it a valuable resource to guide support that produces innovation to meet energy challenges now and for the future.
Download or read book Handbook on Electricity Markets written by Glachant, Jean-Michel and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With twenty-two chapters written by leading international experts, this volume represents the most detailed and comprehensive Handbook on electricity markets ever published.
Download or read book Improving the Performance of Regional Electricity Markets in Developing Countries written by Amy Michelle Rose and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power pools can reduce the cost of providing electricity and improve system reliability through coordinated use of energy resources. Realizing these benefits requires careful market design supported by technical, economic and institutional analysis of the system as it exists today and as it will likely evolve in the future. In this dissertation, I demonstrate this integrated approach through a detailed study of the design and operation of the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP). I develop a linear programming model of the SAPP system that explicitly represents hourly system operations to conduct this analysis. This model is then adapted through the addition of new input parameters or linear constraints to investigate different market design questions including how to implement bilateral contracts in the wholesale market and allocate costs for regional transmission investments. I also examine the design of regional institutions and their role to promote efficient investments and market behavior. The primary contributions from this work include a new method to design and incorporate security-motivated bilateral contracts into wholesale markets using Implicit Auctions with Security of Supply Guarantees; a regulatory framework for transmission planning and cost allocation designed specifically for supranational regional markets; a quantitative comparison of transmission pricing methods leading to recommendations to apply Beneficiary Pays for new lines and Average Participations for existing lines; recommended adjustments to transmission regulation to facilitate increased penetrations of renewable energy; and a proposed design for the regional regulator. I also identify several unique features of developing country power systems that may influence market design. Other markets in Africa, Asia and Central America contain similar technical and institutional characteristics that can lead to similar market challenges. The specific market rules and implementation steps developed for the SAPP may not apply in all regions but the integrated approach used in this thesis, combining technical models and institutional analysis to support regulatory decisions, could be generalized to other regional electricity markets.
Download or read book Local Electricity Markets written by Tiago Pinto and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-07-03 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local Electricity Markets introduces the fundamental characteristics, needs, and constraints shaping the design and implementation of local electricity markets. It addresses current proposed local market models and lessons from their limited practical implementation. The work discusses relevant decision and informatics tools considered important in the implementation of local electricity markets. It also includes a review on management and trading platforms, including commercially available tools. Aspects of local electricity market infrastructure are identified and discussed, including physical and software infrastructure. It discusses the current regulatory frameworks available for local electricity market development internationally. The work concludes with a discussion of barriers and opportunities for local electricity markets in the future. - Delineates key components shaping the design and implementation of local electricity market structure - Provides a coherent view on the enabling infrastructures and technologies that underpin local market expansion - Explores the current regulatory environment for local electricity markets drawn from a global panel of contributors - Exposes future paths toward widespread implementation of local electricity markets using an empirical review of barriers and opportunities - Reviews relevant local electricity market case studies, pilots and demonstrators already deployed and under implementation
Download or read book The Evolution of Electricity Markets in Europe written by Leonardo Meeus and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging theory and practice, this book offers insights into how Europe has experienced the evolution of modern electricity markets from the end of the 1990s to the present day. It explores defining moments in the process, including the four waves of European legislative packages, landmark court cases, and the impact of climate strikes and marches.
Download or read book Essays in Electricity Economics written by Brittany L. Tarufelli and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goods markets are designed and regulated at a sub-global level. Although it’s typical to assume one set of market clearing rules across regulated and unregulated regions, trade occurs across a patchwork of sub-global market designs. Not accounting for this heterogeneity in market design can lead to unanticipated outcomes from sub-global regulations, as correcting for one market failure–such as a negative externality from carbon emissions–can lead to another market failure from the market design itself when trade occurs across differing market designs. The anatomy of this second-best problem is considered in the context of U.S. electricity markets, as market clearing mechanisms vary by region, and they imperfectly overlap with state-level climate policies such as carbon prices and renewables subsidies. In Chapter I, I present a review of the theoretical and empirical literature on electricity market design and its interaction with regional climate policies. In the wholesale electricity sector, market design drives both the extent of the forward contract market and the competitiveness of the spot market, which can induce strategic behavior and affect both market and regional climate policy outcomes. Assessing climate policy outcomes under only the assumption of a centralized market design, as is customary in the literature, belies the complexity of electricity market design, which varies regionally. As there is currently an agenda to link regional electricity markets, there is also a need to study how strategic behavior across differing market designs affects emissions when regional climate policies are imposed. In Chapter II, I develop a two-stage model of oligopolistic electricity production to determine if strategic behavior in forward contract and spot markets across differing electricity market designs increases or decreases emissions leakage from regional climate policies. I find that under uncertainty from demand and renewable resource shocks, centralized market designs generally reduce market power through arbitraging away price risk between forward and spot markets. However, under an asymmetric carbon cap and trade program, resulting emissions leakage is decreased by bilateral markets, which act as a structural backstop to emissions leakage. Emissions leakage increases when bilateral markets trade with, or are integrated with centralized markets, potentially reducing the efficacy of regional climate policies. In Chapter III, I study the interaction between sub-global climate policy and sub-global design of goods markets using an example of market expansion from wholesale electricity markets–the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) in California. Using a difference-in-differences and triple-differences framework with matching to account for self-selection, I investigate how the EIM affects emissions leakage from California’s carbon cap and trade program. I find that the EIM caused a modest increase in emissions leakage into participating regions outside California, despite the relatively small trading volumes. The results have implications for ongoing efforts to expand competitive wholesale electricity markets across regions with differing climate policies. The results of this dissertation are informative for sub-global climate policy when trade in goods markets occurs across regions with different market clearing rules. Specifically, reduced transactions costs in trade between regulated and unregulated regions may tend to exacerbate emissions leakage. These results are informative in the context of continuing changes in wholesale electricity markets, including potential market expansions and continued integration of regional electricity markets across the U.S. and the European Union.
Download or read book Evolution of Global Electricity Markets written by Fereidoon Sioshansi and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the latest on rapidly evolving global electricity markets direct from the scholars andthought leaders who are shaping reform. In this volume, dozens of world-class expertsfrom diverse regions provide a comprehensive assessment of the relevant issues intoday's electricity markets. Amid a seething backdrop of rising energy prices, concerns about environmentaldegradation, and the introduction of distributed sources and smart grids, increasinglystringent demands are being placed on the electric power sector to provide a morereliable, efficient delivery infrastructure, and more rational, cost-reflective prices. Thisbook maps out the electric industry's new paradigms, challenges and approaches,providing invaluable global perspective on this host of new and pressing issues beinginvestigated by research institutions worldwide. Companies engaged in the powersector's extensive value chain including utilities, generation, transmission & distributioncompanies, retailers, suppliers, regulators, market designers, and the investment &financial rating community will benefit from gaining a more nuanced understanding ofthe impacts of key market design and restructuring choices. How can problems beavoided? Why do some restructured markets appear to function better than others?Which technological implementations represent the best investments? Whichregulatory mechanisms will best support these new technologies? What lessons canbe learned from experiences in Norway, Australia, Texas, or the U.K.? Thesequestions and many more are undertaken by the brightest minds in the industry in thisone comprehensive, cutting-edge resource. - Features a unique global perspective from more than 40 recognized experts and scholars around the world, offering opportunities to compare and contrast a wide range of market structures - Analyzes how the implementation of existing and developing market designs impacts real-world issues such as pricing and reliability - Explains the latest thinking on timely issues such as current market reform proposals, restructuring, liberalization, privatization, capacity and energy markets, distributed and renewable energy integration, competitive generation and retail markets, and disaggregated vs. vertically integrated systems
Download or read book International Trade in Sustainable Electricity written by Thomas Cottier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the regulatory challenges posed by the changing landscape of electricity trade to the multilateral trading system.
Download or read book Regional Power Sector Integration written by Daniel del Barrio-Alvarez and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greater integration of electricity markets between neighboring countries is a strategic option for mutual strengthening of national systems through economies-of-scale in investments and enhanced energy security. There are different possible levels of integration: (i) the development of cross-border interconnections, (ii) long term purchase agreements for development power plants (like Itaipu between Paraguay and Brazil or Nam Theun 2 between Lao PDR and Thailand) or (iii) the creation of regional electricity markets or power pools. The first two are not real integration but interconnection because, although the infrastructures are physically linked, the planning and operation are not. Moreover the level of integration of regional electricity markets can be divided into two whether the dispatch is coordinated or centralized. The deeper the integration larger the benefits are, in fact the World Bank (2011) describes the difference between interconnection and integration and that between trading goods and having a common economic market. Obviously the process for integration requires a harmonization process and some level of decision-power cession from national governments. These are the biggest barriers and can only be overcome with large political will and support. Nevertheless, that it is very challenging to achieve because of sovereignty and security concerns. For that, although the benefits of the integration are commonly understood, few regions have been able to overcome all the difficulties and to create a regional electricity market. Central American countries are an interesting example because of the large number of countries involved (six), the political and technical initial differences (from vertically integrated public monopoly to fully unbundled competitive electricity markets) and the creation of independent supranational institutions with decision power over the regional market (regional regulator and operator). The development of the Central American regional electricity market (MER) is a process led by the Central American state-own utilities with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) materialized through the SIEPAC project (System for the Electric Interconnection of the Central American countries). In this process they have sign an international treaty (Marco Treaty) to ensure the political support, one company for the design, construction and maintenance of the infrastructure (EPR), constructed a regional transmission line through a “regionally owned” special-purpose company, created two independent regional institutions for the operation (EOR) and the regulation (CRIE) of the MER, and approved and enforced a regional regulation to which national systems must harmonize. During the implementation process extra-regional private and public companies have also become shareholders of the EPR, Endesa from Spain, ISA from Colombia and CFE from Mexico. Moreover the project is growing to interconnect the region with Mexico (already implemented) and Colombia (under development). Central American countries have just started to achieve some of the benefits like the management of the energy crisis in Panama during 2013. Nevertheless it took 25 years from the initial studies in 1987 until the final enforcement of the regional regulation in 2013, what is representative of the difficulties of the regional integration process. The combination of challenges and successes make the SIEPAC project an attractive case for the understanding of the complexity of the regional cooperation processes in the power sector and for finding evidences that could be utilized for other regions. The objective of this paper is to identify the critical success factors that have made possible to achieve the political support from the different Central American government even all the challenges faced during the implementation process. The causal analysis of the implementation process complemented from literature review and interview survey with stakeholders identified five critical success factors: (i) the concept of gradualism, which allowed to overcome the difficulties arose because of different national contexts; (ii) the involvement of the state-owned companies at the center of decision-making, critical for obtaining the required political support and to maintain the commitment of the countries during a long process with changes in the national political contexts; (iii) the incorporation of extra-regional partners, reducing the political interferences to the regional institutions and bringing the project to the national development agendas; (iv) the managerial and economic independence of the regional institutions, essential for creating a regional vision that move the project from inter-governmental to supra-national status and (v) the continuous support from the Inter-American Development Bank who played an important role as honest broker and main supporter of the project.
Download or read book Tackling Investment Challenges in Power Generation written by International Energy Agency and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the recent trends and prospects for investment in power generation? What are the main drivers and barriers? This book assesses these issues and gives special emphasis to the question of how uncertainties may affect investment decisions. Uncertainties on CO 2 constraints, on power plant licensing, on acceptability of nuclear power, on local opposition to any new energy infrastructure, on government support for specific generation technologies and on government policies on energy efficiency are particularly disturbing. Market liberalisation can also be a key uncertainty, but this may be greatly reduced and deliver considerable benefits if liberalisation is implemented whole-heartedly and backed by on-going government commitment.
Download or read book Designing Competitive Electricity Markets written by Hung-po Chao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors are prominent economists, operation researchers, and engineers who have been instrumental in the development of the conceptual framework for electric power restructuring both in the United States and in other countries. Rather than espousing a particular market design for the industry's future, each author focuses on an important issue or set of issues and tries to frame the questions for designing electricity markets using an international perspective. The book focuses on the economic and technical questions important in understanding the industry's long-term development rather than providing immediate answers for the current political debates on industry competition.
