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this market have two strategic weapons at their disposal: (1) the price bid for each generation set and (2) the capacity of … rules governing the price determination process in this market, by the strategic use of capacity availability declarations … the two generators use to exercise market power. We then summarize the time series properties of the price of electricity …
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We simulate competitive benchmark wholesale prices for electricity in California during the summer of 2000, taking account of changes in natural gas prices, electricity demand, and imports of electricity from other states during this time period. We also examine the impact of changes in the...
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after the cost shock. Furthermore, the costs of price adjustment are small …
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-and-trade policies. Under conditions of uncertainty, price-based and quantity-based policy instruments cannot be truly equivalent, so we … lower carbon emissions. Market participants who forecast a lower price of carbon in the cap-and-trade games ran their units … more than those who forecast a higher price of carbon, which caused emissions from the dirtiest generating units (Coal and …
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. This paper provides a framework to uncover consumers' perceived price of nonlinear price schedules. I exploit price … respond to average price rather than marginal or expected marginal price. This sub-optimizing behavior makes nonlinear pricing …
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consumption of goods and services that generate a negative externality. Second, individuals may choose to pay a price premium for … restraint and a voluntary price premium that mirrors the symmetry between environmental policies based on either quantities … introduction of a price-premium, green-electricity program. We find evidence of voluntary restraint and its relation to a voluntary …
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Most US consumers are charged a near-constant retail price for electricity, despite substantial hourly variation in the … wholesale market price. The Smart Grid is a set of emerging technologies that, among other effects, will facilitate "real …-time pricing" for electricity and increase price elasticity of demand. This paper simulates the effects of this increased demand …
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Production inflexibility together with product price uncertainty creates price risk, which is a potentially important … factor for firms' liquidity management. One industry for which price risk can be measured is the electricity producing … electricity price volatility leads to increased cash holdings, but only in firms using inflexible production technologies. This …
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One of the most critical concerns that customers have voiced in the debate over real-time retail electricity pricing is that they would be exposed to risk from fluctuations in their electricity cost. The concern seems to be that a customer could find itself consuming a large quantity of power on...
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plants substantially reduce the price paid for coal (but not gas), and tend to employ less capital-intensive sulfur abatement …
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