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Decentralized energy supply and electricity market structures

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  • Christoph Weber

    () (Chair for Management Sciences and Energy Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen)

  • Philip Vogel

    ()

Abstract

Small decentralized power generation units (DG) are politically promoted because of their potential to reduce GHG-emissions and the existing dependency on fossil fuels. A long term goal of this promotion should be the creation of a level playing field for DG and conventional power generation. Due to the impact of DG on the electricity grid infrastructure, future regulation should consider the costs and benefits of the integration of decentralized energy generation units. Without an adequate consideration, the overall costs of the electricity generation system will be unnecessarily high. The present paper analyses, based on detailed modelling of decentralized demand and supply as well as of the overall system, the marginal costs or savings resulting from decentralized production. Thereby particular focus is laid on taking adequately into account the stochasticity both of energy demand and energy supply. An efficient grid pricing system should then remunerate long-term grid cost savings to operators of decentralized energy production or/and charge long-term additional grid costs to these operators. With detailed models of decentralized demand and supply as well as the overall system, the marginal costs or savings resulting from decentralized production are determined and their dependency on characteristics of the grid and of the decentralized supply are discussed.

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Paper provided by University of Duisburg-Essen, Chair for Management Science and Energy Economics in its series EWL Working Papers with number 0501.

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Length: 23 pages
Date of creation: Nov 2005
Date of revision: Nov 2005
Handle: RePEc:dui:wpaper:0501

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Keywords: electricity markets; decentralized power production; demand side management;

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  1. Joskow, Paul L., 2004. "Transmission Policy In The United States," Working paper 110, Regulation2point0.
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