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Chapter 12 - Electricity Markets
Chapter 12 - Electricity Markets
Electricity Markets
Traditional electric utility model
Generation
• Monopoly
• Only supplier of electricity in a region
Transmission
• “service territory”
• Consumer does not have a choice of supplier
Distribution
• Vertically integrated
• A single organization performs all the technical and Retail
business functions
Consumer
Retail
Consumer
Type Number
Investor-owned Companies 265
Municipal Systems 1,818
Public Power Districts 75
State 68
County Systems 5
Rural Electric Co-Ops 922
U.S. Government 37
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Inverse supply function
• Inverse supply function
•
• Price at which the suppliers will sell a
quantity
• Supply function
• Many sellers
• If some buyers or sellers have too big a market share,
they have market power and can influence the
market price
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
MW
Supply Curve
Q 50 175.00 100
50 10.00
80
100 200.00
R 100 175.00 60
50 15.00 40
100 200.00
20 R
S 50 175.00 Q
S
50 5.00 0
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
MW
Demand Curve
180
P R Q S
160 P
Market price: 40 $/MWh
140
80
C
Accepted offers Market equilibrium
60 A
B
40 D
A
C
D
B R
20 D Q
S
A C
0
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
MW
Supply Curve Demand Curve
100 B
80
C
Market equilibrium
60 A
B
40 D
A
C
D
B R
20 D Q
S
A C
0
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
MW
Supply Curve Demand Curve
100 B
80
C
Market equilibrium
60 A
B
40 D
A
C
D
B R
20 D Q
S
A C
0
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
MW
Supply Curve Demand Curve
180
P R Q S
160 P
140
120
180
P R Q S
160
Some consumers are flexible and
P
willing to curtail or shift their load
140
if the price is too high
120
100 B
80
C
60 A
B
40 D
A
D
C Some loads are highly flexible and
B
20 D
R
Q
S
wait for a very low price e.g.,
C
0
A
battery charging
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
MW
Supply Curve Demand Curve
160
140
60
40
20
0
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
MW
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Variation of the load over a day
50,000
45,000
40,000
35,000
30,000
Load (MW)
25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
0
0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24
Hour
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Discretized variation of the load over a day
110000
100000
90000
Forecast Load (MW)
80000
70000
60000
50000
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Hour
Assume that the load is constant over each one-hour trading period
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Market clearing for each hour
• Replace the demand curve $/MWh 200
hour 80
60
• Market price increases
with the load
40
20
0
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
MW
180
Hour 5 Hour 23 Hour 10 Hour 19
160
Hour 1 2 3 4 5 6 140
Load 390 375 300 275 225 300
120
Hour 13 14 15 16 17 18
Load 810 775 750 750 825 875 100
Hour 7 8 9 10 11 12 80
Load 425 550 650 750 775 825
60
Hour 19 20 21 22 23 24
Load 925 825 750 650 450 425 40
20
0
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
MW
100
$/MWh
90
Hour 1 2 3 4 5 6 80
Hour 13 14 15 16 17 18 60
Hour 7 8 9 10 11 12 40
Hour 19 20 21 22 23 24 20
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Hour
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Percentage of hours
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Effect of transmission capacity limits
• Assumption so far: supply and demand curves reflect the bids and
offers of all the Gencos and LSEs
• Market price applied uniformly to all transactions
• Problem: pattern of generation and demand may result in violations
of operating limits of the transmission network
• Must modify the results of the market clearing to remove these
violations
Western Eastern
A B
D C
225 MW 525 MW
Western Eastern
200 MW 150 MW
A B
175 MW
200 MW 200 MW
D C
225 MW 525 MW
A B
50 MW
225 MW 525 MW
Western Eastern
175 MW 225 MW
A B
50 MW
100 MW 250 MW
D C
225 MW 525 MW
60 60
A
50 50
B
40 D 40
A
30 30 C
D
20 20 B
D
10 A 10 C
0 0
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500
MW MW
Market price in the Western region: 30 $/MWh Market price in the Eastern region: 90 $/MWh
Total: ($1093)