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How Markets Set Power Prices

In: Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon

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  • Jenny Chase

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Energy is a sector in which even the most ardent proponents of the free market admit the need for some regulation. The decisions made — what sort of power plants to build, whether to add gas pipelines, whether to invest in the power grid — will affect the country for the next 30–50 years, and conditions may change significantly. Building a fleet of gas plants at a time when gas is cheap leaves a country vulnerable to higher gas prices or disruption in supply in future. Building a coal plant today risks higher coal prices and carbon taxes in future. Solar and wind plants will not suffer from higher input costs in future, but new plants will get cheaper, and when solar or wind becomes a substantial part of electricity supply, intermittency becomes a problem. (Back in 2006, when no country had more than 2% of its electricity from solar, I thought ‘what happens at night?’ was a dumb question because there was no risk of running out of backup. It’s not a dumb question today, although it is generally asked by people who don’t actually want to discuss possible answers. It’s also not become a huge problem yet, even as some places — Greece, Italy, California — edge toward 10% solar in their total electricity generation. Chapter 22 discusses this)…

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  • Jenny Chase, 2019. "How Markets Set Power Prices," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon, chapter 10, pages 65-70, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
  • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781786347404_0010
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    Keywords

    Climate Change; Energy Economics; Solar Power; Renewable Resources; Sustainable Technology; Finance;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy
    • Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General
    • G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
    • G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General

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