Driven by a variety of factors including falling costs, environmental impacts, and state mandates, the integration of renewable energy on the U. S. electrical grid is increasing. While studies have shown that the existing electric grid system can absorb this load with the addition of...

Despite temporal changes in wholesale electricity prices, retail prices are typically constant throughout the day. To address this economic inefficiency, Detroit Edison, a subsidiary of DTE Energy (DTE), can introduce residential dynamic pricing rates to incent customers to shift load away from...

This thesis addresses the explicit representation of demand-side resources as participants in the day-ahead electricity markets and assesses their impacts on schedul-ing and prices. These resources offer to reduce their loads and compete side-by-side with the supply-side resources in the hourly...

In recent years intelligent Building Automation Systems, based on best practice open technology, have succeeded in helping facilities reduce their infrastructure, installation and operating costs. The idea was - 'the less the human intervention and the more automated the system then the more...

In recent years intelligent Building Automation Systems, based on best practice open technology, have succeeded in helping facilities reduce their infrastructure, installation and operating costs. The idea was - 'the less the human intervention and the more automated the system then the more...

Entre diciembre de 2020 y junio de 2021, los precios mayoristas de la electricidad casi se duplicaron en España. De acuerdo con las estimaciones presentadas en este documento, una parte significativa de este aumento —alrededor del 20?%— vendría explicado por el encarecimiento observado, en...

Entre diciembre de 2020 y junio de 2021, los precios mayoristas de la electricidad casi se duplicaron en España. De acuerdo con las estimaciones presentadas en este documento, una parte significativa de este aumento —alrededor del 20?%— vendría explicado por el encarecimiento observado, en...

This paper shows that generators exercised increasing market power in the England and Wales wholesale electricity market in the second half of the 1990s despite declining market concentration. It examines whether this was consistent with static, non-cooperative oligopoly models, which are widely...

This paper analyses the economics of long-term gas contracts under changing institutional conditions, mainly gas sector liberalisation. The paper is motivated by the increasingly tense debate in continental Europe, UK and the US on the security of long-term gas supply. We discuss the main issues...

The three papers in this dissertation all deal with new challenges for energy policy.The first paper deals with mitigation of market power in deregulated wholesaleelectricity markets, while the second and third papers deal with reduction ofgreenhouse gas emissions.The first paper experimentally...