Separation and Volatility of Locational Marginal Prices in Restructured Wholesale Power Markets
Abstract
This study uses an agent-based test bed ("AMES") to investigate separation and volatility of locational marginal prices (LMPs) in an ISO-managed restructured wholesale power market operating over an AC transmission grid. Particular attention is focused on the dynamic and cross-sectional response of LMPs to systematic changes in demand-bid price sensitivities and supply-offer price cap levels under varied learning specifications for the generation companies. Also explored is the extent to which the supply offers of the marginal (price-determining) generation companies induce correlations among neighboring LMPs. Related work can be accessed at: http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/AMESMarketHome.htmDownload Info
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Paper provided by Iowa State University, Department of Economics in its series Staff General Research Papers with number 13075.Length:
Date of creation: 09 Jun 2009
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Handle: RePEc:isu:genres:13075
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Keywords: Restructured wholesale power markets; multi-agent learning; demand-bid price sensitivity; AMES Wholesale Power Market Test Bed; agent-based modeling; locational marginal prices (LMPs); LMP separation; LMP volatility; supply-offer price caps;Find related papers by JEL classification:
- C6 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling
- D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing
- D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
- L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
- L3 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise
- L94 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Electric Utilities
- Q4 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:
- NEP-ALL-2009-07-03 (All new papers)
- NEP-CMP-2009-07-03 (Computational Economics)
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- Somani, Abhishek & Tesfatsion, Leigh S., 2008. "An Agent-Based Test Bed Study of Wholesale Power Market Performance Measures," Staff General Research Papers 12977, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
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- Albert Banal-Estañol & Augusto Rupérez-Micola, 2010.
"Are agent-based simulations robust? The wholesale electricity trading case,"
Economics Working Papers
1214, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
- Albert Banal-Estañol & Augusto Rupérez-Micola, 2010. "Are Agent-based Simulations Robust? The Wholesale Electricity Trading Case," Working Papers 443, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
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