Electricity Markets -- Stochastic Programming Fundamentals -- Uncertainty Characterization via Scenarios -- Risk management -- Producer Pool Trading -- Pool Trading for Wind Power Producers -- Futures Market Trading for Producers -- Medium-Term Retailer Trading -- Energy Procurement by Consumers...

This addition to the ISOR series addresses the analytics of the operations of electric energy systems with increasing penetration of stochastic renewable production facilities, such as wind- and solar-based generation units. As stochastic renewable production units become ubiquitous throughout...

As wind power technology matures and reaches break-even cost, wind producers find it increasingly attractive to participate in pool markets instead of being paid feed-in tariffs. The key issue is then how a wind producer should offer in the pool markets to achieve maximum profit while...

A virtual power plant aggregates various local production/consumption units that act in the market as a single entity. This paper considers a virtual power plant consisting of an intermittent source, a storage facility, and a dispatchable power plant. The virtual power plant sells and purchases...