• DocumentCode
    1838048
  • Title

    Price spreads in electricity markets: What are fundamental drivers?

  • Author

    Genoese, Massimo ; Genoese, Fabio ; Möst, Dominik ; Fichtner, Wolf

  • Author_Institution
    Energy Econ., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    23-25 June 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we identify and analyze fundamental drivers on the base-peak spread of wholesale electricity prices. We set up scenarios for a model based analysis to test the influence of these drivers. An agent-based simulation approach is used to carry out this analysis. Results show that the gas-to-coal price difference is an essential factor for the development of the base-peak electricity price spread.
  • Keywords
    multi-agent systems; power engineering computing; power markets; agent-based simulation; base-peak electricity price spread; electricity markets; fundamental drivers; gas-to-coal price difference; wholesale electricity prices; Driver circuits; Wholesale electricity market; agent-based modeling; base-peak spread; prices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Energy Market (EEM), 2010 7th International Conference on the European
  • Conference_Location
    Madrid
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6838-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EEM.2010.5558727
  • Filename
    5558727