The electricity sectors in India have been undergoing signifi cant reforms since nineties. The initial status of the electricity sector when reform of the industry was initiated was very similar across all states in India. The state electricity boards prior to reform were vertically integrated public utilities, the distribution companies had signifi cant technical and commercial losses and the ...

Electricity spot prices in the emerging power markets are volatile, a consequence of the unique physical attributes of electricity production and distribution. Uncontrolled exposure to market price risks can lead to devastating consequences for market participants in the restructured electricity industry. Lessons learned from the financial markets suggest that financial derivatives, when well u...

Introduction The EU Electricity and Gas Directives 96/92/EC and 98/30/EC were adopted in 1996 and 1998, with member countries having until February 1999 and August 2000 to incorporate their provisions into domestic legislation. At one level, the directives were the logical extension to public utilities of the principles of the single market – “the free movement of goods, persons, services and c...

Electricity price predictions have become a major discussion on competitive market under deregulated power system. But, the exclusive characteristics of electricity price such as non-linearity, non-stationary and time-varying volatility structure present several challenges for this task. In this paper, a new forecast strategy based on the iterative neural network is proposed for Day-ahead price...

In this paper we propose a Multi-Agent system architecture to simulate and analyse Competitive Electricity Markets combining bilateral trading with power exchange mechanisms. This Multi-Agent environment includes several heterogeneous and autonomous intelligent agents representing the different independent entities in Electricity Markets. Agents are endowed with historical information about the...

Natural gas plays an important role in the future development of electricity markets as it is the least emission intensive fossil generation option while additionally providing the needed flexibility in plant operation to deal with intermittent renewable generation. As both the electricity and the natural gas market rely on networks, congestion on one market may lead to changes on another. In a...

In this paper, we develop an agent-based model of a market game in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the U.K. government’s 2008–2010 policy on promoting smart metering in the U.K. retail electricity market. We break down the policy into four possible policy options. With the model, we study the impact of the four policy options on the dynamics of smart metering diffusion and suggest policy...

In this paper we give an overview of the Electricity Market Complex Adaptive System (EMCAS) model. EMCAS uses the agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) technique to model the market participants in electricity markets as different agents with different strategies, risk preferences, and objectives. The complex operations of an electricity market can be simulated across several time horizons...

The electricity markets have undergone significant changes during the last years. On the one hand, the market deregulation has increased significantly the uncertainty on future electricity prices. On the other hand, the Kyoto protocol and the establishment of emission restrictions, as well as the development of emission trading systems has added another expense stream for conventional fuel elec...

A short-term electricity market coordinated by a system operator provides a foundation for a competitive electricity market. Combined with long-term contracts for generation and transmission congestion, the spot-market and competitive market pricing can support open access to the transmission grid. INTRODUCTION Electricity market restructuring emphasizes the potential for competition in generat...