• DocumentCode
    3352255
  • Title

    Simulating the impact of mergers on wholesale electricity prices

  • Author

    Yu, Z. ; Sparrow, F.T. ; Gotham, D.

  • Author_Institution
    Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    18
  • Lastpage
    23
  • Abstract
    This paper evaluates the impact of mergers of electricity generation companies on wholesale electricity prices. A spatial gaming model, with the Cournot-Nash strategy, is used for the evaluation. The proposed merger evaluation method has certain advantages over the traditional HHI index for measuring potential market power of generators. Case studies are provided to illustrate the use of the model
  • Keywords
    commerce; electricity supply industry; game theory; power system economics; tariffs; Cournot-Nash strategy; case studies; electricity generation companies; merger evaluation method; mergers impact simulation; potential market power; spatial gaming model; wholesale electricity prices; Acceleration; Corporate acquisitions; Costs; Electricity supply industry; Electricity supply industry deregulation; Guidelines; Logic; Power generation; Power generation economics; Power measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Power Engineering, 2001. LESCOPE '01. 2001 Large Engineering Systems Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Halifax, NS
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7107-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LESCPE.2001.941619
  • Filename
    941619