Anecdotal evidence indicates that electricity producers use production failures to disguise strategic reductions of capacity in order to influence prices, but systematic evidence is lacking. We use a quasi-experimental set up and data from the Swedish energy market to examine such behavior. In a...

This paper is an empirical investigation of how traders react to public news in a market where there are lots of non-scheduled announcements, often arriving simultaneously. Using detailed trade information from the Nordic intra-day electricity market and GARCH models, this paper examines market...

Wind power generation of electricity has gained popular support because of its low environmental impact and because of its low costs relative to other renewable energy sources. However, concerns have been raised in the power sector that wind power generation will come with the price of increased...

This study explores and quantifies the benefits of connecting more distributed generation (with and without the use of smart connections) across different parties (Distribution Network Operators, wider society and generators). Different connection scenarios are proposed (with partial and full...

It is well known that, despite improvements in recent years, a number of LAC countries' exports still remain below their potential and what would be expected judging from their levels of development. The same holds for their degrees of export diversification (Blyde et al., 2014). In addition,...

Le caractère composite de la fourniture d’électricité a des implications pour la politique de régulation de la sécurité d’approvisionnement dans le secteur de l’énergie électrique, ce que nous démontrons en nous appuyant sur le concept d’externalité politiquement pertinente....

In this paper we study the effects of the changes in the level of product market regulation on the industry-level innovation intensity in the Electricity sector across 16 European countries during years 1990-2009. We matched data on R&D budgets and EPO patent applications from IEA and Eurostat...

Die nukleare Katastrophe von Fukushima im März 2011 setzte eine hitzige Debatte über die zukünftige Energiepolitik in Deutschland in Gang, die letzten Endes zum Beschluss des vorzeitigen Atomausstiegs führte. Um die Energieversorgung zu sichern und gleichzeitig die angestrebten...

Natural gas plays an important role in the future development of electricitymarkets as it is the least emission intensive fossil generation option whileadditionally providing the needed flexibility in plant operation to deal withintermittent renewable generation. As both the electricity and the...

We present a bottom-up electricity market model for Switzerland called Swissmod.It includes a detailed electricity network and hydropower representation. Swissmodcaptures the features and restrictions of run-of-river, yearly storage and pumped-storage power plants and combines this with a...