Real-time pricing (RTP) of electricity would improve allocative efficiency and limit wholesalers' market power. Conventional wisdom claims that RTP provides additional environmental benefits. This paper argues that RTP will reduce the variance, both within- and across-days, in the quantity of...

Real-time pricing (RTP) of electricity would improve the efficiency of consumption and investment and would lessen the potential harm from market power. Conventional wisdom has claimed that RTP has an additional environmental benefit. We argue that RTP will reduce variance of electricity load...

This paper presents a first investigation of hourly price determinants in the German intraday market for electricity. The influence of power plant outages, forecast errors of wind and solar power production, load forecast errors and foreign demand and supply on intraday prices are explained from...