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Modelling electricity prices with forward looking capacity constraints

Cartea, Alvaro and Figueroa, M.G. and Geman, Hélyette (2008) Modelling electricity prices with forward looking capacity constraints. Working Paper. Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK.

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Abstract

We present a spot price model for wholesale electricity prices which incorporates forward looking information that is available to all market players. We focus on information that measures the extent to which the capacity of the England and Wales generation park will be constrained over the next 52 weeks. We propose a measure of ‘tight market conditions’, based on capacity constraints, which identifies the weeks of the year when price spikes are more likely to occur. We show that the incorporation of this type of forward looking information, not uncommon in the electricity markets, improves the modeling of spikes (timing and magnitude) and the different speeds of mean reversion.

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Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Additional Information: BWPEF 0802
Keyword(s) / Subject(s): capacity constraints, mean reversion, electricity indicated demand, electricity indicated generation, regime switching model
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
Research Centres and Institutes: Commodities Finance Centre
Depositing User: Administrator
Date Deposited: 09 Jul 2013 07:30
Last Modified: 12 Apr 2025 03:30
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/7594

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