How Does Welfare from Load Shifting Electricity Policy Vary with Market Prices? Evidence from Bulk Storage and Electricity Generation

J Holladay and Jacob LaRiviere

No 2017-06, Working Papers from University of Tennessee, Department of Economics

Abstract: We model the electricity market to demonstrate that changes in the price of natural gas can cause the market and non-market impacts of bulk electricity storage to move in opposite directions. We provide evidence consistent with the model using a series of reduced form tests on data from 2005-2010. We then simulate installing bulk electricity storage on the US electric grid. We find that lower natural gas prices generally reduce the market gains and non-market costs of storage. However, direct non-market costs are still positive which means that there is no argument for subsidizing storage to mitigate pollution given the current mix of generating technologies; arguments in favor of bulk storage R&D subsidies ride on public good aspects of technology and dynamic investment incentives for intermittent renewables.

Keywords: Electricity storage; natural gas; air pollution; energy policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H44 L5 L9 Q4 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2017-10
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