that a discriminatory auction design favoring low-wind-yield locations leads to a tradeoff between production costs and … auction levels intra-technology discrimination through the reference yield model leads to a reduction of consumer costs of …

We assess the incorporation of wind or solar resource quality into renewable auction design as a means to … resource quality. With a stylized auction model, we model the trade-off between production costs and consumer costs. After … exploring the influence of the heterogeneity of production costs, the auction volume, and the regulator’s knowledge about cost …