This empirical study assesses the impact of specific regulatory policy measures, adopted in the Greek wholesale electricity market during the period 2004-2011, on the Day-Ahead Market Price. We consider an ARMA-GARCH model extended to include dummies and other exogenous variables that affect...

Large-scale deployment of intermittent renewable energy (namely wind energy and solar PV) may entail new challenges in power systems and more volatility in power prices in liberalized electricity markets. Energy storage can diminish this imbalance, relieving the grid congestion, and promoting...

The exponential increase of the energy production from renewable sources and in particularthe variability and low predictability characteristics of wind and solar technologies andthe growth of distributed generation are calling the current design of the Italian electricity systemsinto question....

In July 2013, the government approved a major overhaul of the Spanish electricity sector to correct existing imbalances that have led to an exponential increase of regulated electricity costs and a huge tariff deficit. The reform addresses the problem of financial sustainability of the sector,...

With the introduction of CO2 allowances, the European Union Carbon Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has imposed a price on the CO2 emissions of power generating companies. In line with economic theory, these companies pass on the costs of allowances and integrate it into the price of electricity. Due to...

The electricity market has been widely introduced in many countries all over the world and the study on electricity price forecast technology has drawn a lot of attention. In this paper, with different parameter Ci and εi assigned to each training data, the flexible Ci Support Vector Regression...

This paper presents a grid computing approach to parallel-process a neural network time-series model for forecasting electricity market prices. A grid computing environment introduced in a university computing laboratory provides access to otherwise underused computing resources. The grid...

The objectives of this paper are to assess the progress made towards a single European wholesale electricity market by the end of 2001, and identify remaining sources of economic inefficiency. Statistical analysis of day-ahead prices, in fifteen European locations, show Nord Pool (Scandinavia),...

This Selected Issues paper discusses the economics of energy price reform in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Economic policies in Iran have traditionally relied on the abundant availability of energy at a low price to finance the country’s economic development. Low domestic energy prices...

Cet article traite de l'effet des mécanismes de réponse de la demande sur l'efficacité des marchés de gros d'électricité. Dans le cadre des réformes de libéralisation des marchés de l'énergie, l'attention a initialement porté sur le seul coté offre du marché, supposant implicitement...