The restructuring and deregulation of global electricity markets has brought about fundamental changes in the behaviour of wholesale spot prices. In turn, this has fostered a small but increasing volume of literature aimed at modelling and providing best-practice forecasts of electricity prices...

A cointegrated vector autoregressive (CVAR) model is estimated to determine the dynamic relationship between Nordic wholesale electricity prices and EU emissions trading scheme (EU-ETS) CO2 allowance prices. An impulse response analysis reveals that electricity prices have large short-term...

During 2004 and 2006 German wholesale electricity prices nearly doubled. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the factors for this price increase differentiated by fuel costs, CO2-emission allowances, and market power. We develop a competitive benchmark model, taking into account power plant...

In the last few years we have observed deregulation in electricity markets and an increasing interest of price dynamics has been developed especially to consider all stylized facts shown by spot prices. Only few papers, to the authors' knowledge, have considered the Italian Electricity Spot...

By means of regression analysis, we address the price impact of intermittent renewable energy sources (wind, solar and waves) for the Mibel Iberian Market (Portugal and Spain) during the period spanning from 2010 to 2015. Our results suggest that: i) intermittent renewable energy has a material...

Although many developing countries have yet to meet the considerable prerequisites for establishing wholesale power markets, a significant minority of larger middle-income countries have introduced diverse markets in the past 25 years. Cost-based pools proved particularly popular in Latin...

From 2002 to 2006, German wholesale electricity prices more than doubled. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the price components in 2006 in order to identify the factors responsible for the increase. We develop a competitive benchmark model, taking into account power plant...

In this paper we employ a fundamental principle of classical mechanics known as the Least Action Principle to model the complex relationship between expected load and expected price in electricity spot markets. We consider here markets that feature a centralised electricity dispatch system that...

Electricity markets are becoming more integrated around the world. However, the knowledge of the effects of different auction formats on suppliers' strategies in the presence of transmission constraints and transmission costs is still very limited. In this paper, I analyze the performance of...

The integration of electricity markets around the world has increased the importance of congestion between countries/states and has initiated a discussion of how to harmonize network tariffs. This paper analyzes how the transmission capacity and the transmission cost, such as a transmission...