Now or Later? Trading Wind Power Closer to Real-time: How Poorly Designed Subsidies Can Lead to Higher Balancing Costs

Johannes Mauritzen

The Energy Journal, 2015, vol. 36, issue 4, 149-164

Abstract: Simulation studies have pointed to the advantages of trading closer to real-time with large amounts of wind power. Using Danish data, I show that, as expected, shortfalls increase the probability of trade on the short-term market, Elbas. But in the period studied between 2010 and 2012 surpluses are shown to decrease the probability of trade. This unexpected result is likely explained by wind power policies that discourage trading on Elbas and lead to unnecessarily high balancing costs. I use a rolling-windows regression to support this claim.

Keywords: Wind power; Electricity markets; Subsidy policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.5547/01956574.36.4.jmau

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