 Managing volumetric risk of long-term power purchase agreementsBo Tranberg, Rasmus Thrane Hansen and Leopoldo Catania Energy Economics, 2020, vol. 85, issue C Abstract: A negative dependence between wind power production and electricity spot price exists. This is an important fact to consider for risk management of long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs). In this study we investigate this dependence by constructing a joint model using constant as well as time-varying copulas. We propose to use score-driven models as marginal model for the spot price of electricity as these are more robust to extreme events compared to ARMA–GARCH models. We apply the new model to pricing and risk management of PPAs and benchmark it against the ARMA–GARCH specification. Our comparison shows that the score-driven model results in a statistically significant improvement of predicting the Value-at-Risk (VaR), which is of high importance for risk management of long-term PPAs. Further, comparing constant and time–varying copulas we find that all time-varying copulas are significantly better than their constant counterparts at predicting the VaR, hence time–varying copulas should be used in risk management of PPAs. Keywords: Volumetric risk; Time-varying copula model; Score-driven model; Risk management; Power purchase agreement; Electricity market (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:eneeco:v:85:y:2020:i:c:s0140988319303627 DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104567 Access Statistics for this article Energy Economics is currently edited by R. S. J. Tol, Beng Ang, Lance Bachmeier, Perry Sadorsky, Ugur Soytas and J. P. Weyant More articles in Energy Economics from Elsevier |
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