Short-term Hedging for an Electricity Retailer

Debbie J. Dupuis, Geneviéve Gauthier and Fréderic Godin

The Energy Journal, 2016, vol. 37, issue 2, 31-60

Abstract: A dynamic global hedging procedure making use of futures contracts is developed for a retailer of the electricity market facing price, load and basis risk. Statistical models reproducing stylized facts are developed for the electricity load, the day-ahead spot price and futures prices in the Nord Pool market. These models serve as input to the hedging algorithm, which also accounts for transaction fees. Backtests with market data from 2007 to 2012 show that the global hedging procedure provides considerable risk reduction when compared to hedging benchmarks found in the literature.

Keywords: Risk management; power markets; energy; load modeling; futures; contracts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.5547/01956574.37.2.ddup

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