Price formation in zero-carbon electricity markets–Fundamentals, challenges, and research needs

Z Zhou, A Botterud, T Levin - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2025 - Elsevier
Future power systems dominated by zero-carbon generation resources may require
significant revisions to electricity market designs to ensure capacity adequacy and market …

Storing power: Market structure matters

D Andrés‐Cerezo, N Fabra - The RAND Journal of Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We assess how firms' incentives to operate and invest in energy storage depend on the
market structure. For this purpose, we characterize equilibrium market outcomes allowing for …

The energy transition: An industrial economics perspective

N Fabra - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2021 - Elsevier
Addressing climate change requires full decarbonization of our economies. Whether this
objective is achieved at least cost for society hinges on good policy design. In turn, this calls …

Market power mitigation clearing mechanism based on constrained bidding capacities

H Guo, Q Chen, Q Xia, C Kang - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Market power has been a problematic issue for fair and transparent trades in various
electricity markets. To deal with the problems of existing market power mitigation methods …

Market power detection and mitigation measures for the spot electricity market based on bidding equilibrium

F Hu, Y Zhao, C Huang, S Cui, Q Ding, Y Li - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The spot electricity market (SEM) faces the challenge of inefficiency problems from market
power (MP) abuse. However, previous studies have not adequately addressed such issues …

Intertemporal effects of imperfect competition through forward contracts in wholesale electricity markets

CA Gallego - Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper quantifies how market power and uncompetitive behavior in forward markets
affect equilibrium prices to the detriment of consumers in the electricity industry in Colombia …

Two-settlement system for the Brazilian electricity market

FC Munhoz - Energy Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
The Brazilian cost-based market employs the single-settlement system to clear electricity.
Besides single, this system adopts a hybrid mechanism in which the amount of electricity …

Competitive Behavior of Hydroelectric Power Plants under Uncertainty in Spot Market

MCT De Brito, AO Pereira Junior, MVF Pereira… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
This article aims to analyze agents' behavior in a competitive hydrothermal energy market.
The idea is to investigate how much the day-to-day behavior of the market can be different …

Trade, renewable energy, and market power in power markets

KR Brekke, OR Straume, L Sørgard - 2023 - repositorium.uminho.pt
Energy markets are undergoing a radical shift towards renewable energy and network
integration. We study the effects of integrating regions with storable (hydro) and intermittent …

Saving for a Dry Day: Coal, Dams, and the Energy Transition

M Fioretti, J Tamayo - 2021 - sciencespo.hal.science
Renewable generation creates a tradeoff between current and future energy production as
generators produce energy by releasing previously stored resources. Studying the …