Operating independent power plants in japanese market: From contract management to real-time operations

In the last few years, several projects of new independent power plants were proposed and many of them are now concluded in Japan. The increase of investment in the power sector and in particular in the development of new power plants is consequence of the new regulation of the electricity industry. An independent power plants operator can choose among several types of contract: forward and spot market, over the counter contracts with retailers and utilities, retail market; in this way, it is possible to find the best contract portfolio that maximize the company profit.