Market Equilibria in Cross-Border Balancing Platforms

Jacques Cartuyvels (), Gilles Bertrand and Anthony Papavasiliou
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Jacques Cartuyvels: Université catholique de Louvain, LIDAM/CORE, Belgium
Anthony Papavasiliou: Université catholique de Louvain, LIDAM/CORE, Belgium

No 2023009, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: The next phase of electricity markets integration in Europe will see the introduction of pan-European balancing platforms, MARI and PICASSO, for the trading of manual and automatic frequency restoration reserve. This paper provides an analytical framework for the study of pricing asymmetries between European member states in this context. The pricing asymmetries are due to balancing incentive components and consist of the unilateral introduction by a member state of either (i) an adder on the imbalance price and balancing price, (ii) an adder on the imbalance price solely, or (iii) the introduction of a real-time price for the trading of real-time balancing capacity. Our analytical framework allows us to characterize the optimal bidding strategy of flexible assets under the different designs and to derive the resulting equilibria. Our analysis demonstrates that adders without the trading of balancing capacity create inefficiencies by distorting the merit order and tend to be detrimental to the member state that introduces it.

Keywords: Balancing market; cross-border balancing; frequency restoration reserve; real-time market for reserve (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10
Date: 2023-03-01
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