Political Shocks and Efficient Investment in Electricity Markets
Professor Felix Muesgens, Brandenburg University of Technology Investment decisions in electricity markets are driven by different factors: (expectations of) fuel price developments, investment and generating costs, demand, and the remaining power plant portfolio in the market. This paper presents a fundamental power market model captur-ing many essential features of investments in power markets. The partial equilibrium model minimizes the total costs of the electricity system. It looks both at long-run and short-run de-velopments. On the one hand, long-run investment decisions for the commissioning of new thermal power plants as well as possible early decommissioning of old thermal power plants are taken into account. On the other hand, a two-hourly dispatch of both thermal power gener-ation technologies and (pump) storage plants is calculated. The model includes 10 European countries and allows for power exchange between neighboring countries whose power net-works are connected. Different types of generation technologies are aggregated into vintage classes. Furthermore, technical requirements such as minimum load requirements are incorpo-rated. Startup and shutdown costs are integrated as well as unavailabilities of power plants. The model is formulated as a Read more…
Categories: Academic Papers, Electricity and nuclear, Energy modelling, Finance and investment
Tags: conference 2012, dispatch modelling, European Energy in a Challenging World, investment modelling
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2012