• DocumentCode
    2671571
  • Title

    Electricity Market Prices: An Indicator of Market Power?

  • Author

    de la Cruz-Soto, J. ; Alcaraz, G. Gutiérrez

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. Tecnol. de Morelia Morelia, Morelia, Mexico
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    8-12 Nov. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    8
  • Abstract
    Electricity market price may not always be a reference to determine the existence of market power. This paper discusses why electricity price in a day-ahead electricity market may exhibit peaks without representing market manipulation by any of the players. We use genetic algorithms to simulate the trading behavior of artificial agents in the spot market. Two case studies are reported and the results show that high market prices do not necessarily mean market power exercise.
  • Keywords
    genetic algorithms; power markets; pricing; electricity market prices; genetic algorithms; market manipulation; market power; spot market; Character generation; Costs; Economic forecasting; Electric variables measurement; Electricity supply industry; Genetic algorithms; Monitoring; Power measurement; Power system interconnection; Regulators; Genetic Algorithms; electricity market;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems, 2009. ISAP '09. 15th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Curitiba
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5097-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISAP.2009.5352893
  • Filename
    5352893