Short- and mid-term forecasting of baseload electricity prices in the UK: The impact of intra-day price relationships and market fundamentals

Katarzyna Maciejowska () and Rafał Weron

No HSC/15/04, HSC Research Reports from Hugo Steinhaus Center, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Abstract: In this paper we investigate whether considering the fine structure of half-hourly electricity prices, the market closing prices of fundamentals (natural gas, coal and CO2) and the system-wide demand can lead to significantly more accurate short- and mid-term forecasts of APX UK baseload prices. We evaluate the predictive accuracy of a number of univariate and multivariate time series models over a three-year out-of-sample forecasting period and compare it against that of a benchmark autoregressive model. We find that in the short-term, up to a few business days ahead, a disaggregated model which independently predicts the intra-day prices and then takes their average to yield baseload price forecasts is the best performer. However, in the mid-term, factor models which explore the correlation structure of intra-day prices lead to significantly (as measured by the Diebold-Mariano test) better baseload price forecasts. At the same time, we observe that the inclusion of fundamental variables - especially natural gas prices (in the short-term) and coal prices (in the mid-term) - provides significant gains. The CO2 prices, on the other hand, generally do not improve the price forecasts at all, at least in the time period considered in this study (Apr. 2009 - Dec. 2013).

Keywords: Electricity price; Forecasting; Vector autoregression; Factor model; Principal components (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 C38 C53 Q47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2015
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Published as K. Maciejowska, R. Weron (2016) Short- and mid-term forecasting of baseload electricity prices in the UK: The impact of intra-day price relationships and market fundamentals, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 31(2), 994-1005 (doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2015.2416433).

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