Role of Energy Exchanges for Power Trading in India

G. P. Girish and S. Vijayalakshmi
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G. P. Girish: Department of Finance, IBS Hyderabad, IFHE University (a Deemed to-be-University under Section 3 of UGC Act 1956), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
S. Vijayalakshmi: Department of Finance, IBS Hyderabad, IFHE University (a Deemed to-be-University under Section 3 of UGC Act 1956), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 2015, vol. 5, issue 3, 673-676

Abstract: The Indian Electricity Act 2003 defi nes power trading as the purchase of electricity for resale thereof. In this study, we review various facets of power trading, Indian electricity market, power exchanges and the day-ahead spot electricity market of India. The power exchanges are attributed with inherent features like being nationwide, ensuring anonymity, offering transparency, being automated and enabling effi cient price-discovery, we believe that, power trading in India is all set to undergo a paradigm shift in terms of volume of transaction through power exchanges, price discovery, number of participants and will eventually ensure in playing a major role in addressing the biggest concern of supply-demand mismatch of electricity in India

Keywords: Power Trading; Energy Exchanges; Indian Electricity Market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C01 C22 C53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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