Market Design
Find papers and presentations on all market design topics;
Capacity Markets, Competitive Market Models, ELMP, Financial Transmission Rights, investment incentives, lessons from abroad, lessons from other industries, LMP, price formation, regional transmission organizations, retail pricing, and. scarcity pricing.
Capacity Markets
2021
2020
Excerpt from the Introduction:
Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this technical conference. My comments here and during the conference are my own and do not represent the opinions of anyone else. The focus of my remarks will be on carbon...
Competitive Market Models
2021
2020
Financial Transmission Rights
2018
2016
2011
2010
2009
2006
Executive Summary
In the framework of the EC Regulation 1228/2003, the goal of this background paper is to provide a description of the different market based solutions available for transmission risk hedging in congestion management. This paper presents...
Investment Incentives
2023
2009
2022
2021
Great Britain’s carbon emissions from electricity generation fell by two-thirds between 2012 and 2019, providing an important example for other nations. This rapid transition was driven by a complex interplay of policies and events: investment in...
2020
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In a 2019 Issues Paper under its Transmission Pricing Review, the Electricity Authority of New Zealand set out a framework for efficient electricity system investment, cost allocation, and pricing. The basic design...
2019
2017
2016
LMP
2021
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The experience of grid operators and planners in the United States and around the world has shown that both decarbonization and power system resilience will require large-scale regional and inter-regional trans- mission...
2020
2019
2016
Intorduction:
In one of the first laws establishing regulation of the electric utility industry, the Federal Power Act of 1920 (FPA) there was a recognition that there were two types of transactions commonly entered into in the industry that would be...
Summary:
Summary Efficient electricity day-ahead market designs include virtual transactions. These are financial contracts awarded at day-ahead prices and settled at real-time prices. In PJM these virtual transactions include incremental offers (INCs)...
2011
EXCERPT FROM THE INTRODUCTION:
On March 15, 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released Order 745. The pur- pose of the Order was to require that demand response (DR) resources participating in RTO or ISO markets are paid at the locational...
2021
2020
2018
2016
Curran, Jennifer. "Beyond Order 1000: Seams Operations and Congestion Management." Presentation to the Harvard Electricity Policy Group's 83rd Plenary Session. Cambridge, MA, June 2, 2016.
2015
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Background
The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP), published in June 2014, raises substantial operational challenges for regional transmission organizations (RTOs). In the CPP, EPA...
2014
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This paper is part of an effort to evaluate matters affecting price formation in the energy and ancillary services markets operated by Regional Transmission Operators (RTOs) and Independent System Operators (ISOs)...
2013
2020
2019
2021
2020
2019
2018
2016
Uplift
2021
Excerpt from the Introduction:
The experience of grid operators and planners in the United States and around the world has shown that both decarbonization and power system resilience will require large-scale regional and inter-regional trans- mission...
2020
2019
2016
Intorduction:
In one of the first laws establishing regulation of the electric utility industry, the Federal Power Act of 1920 (FPA) there was a recognition that there were two types of transactions commonly entered into in the industry that would be...
Summary:
Summary Efficient electricity day-ahead market designs include virtual transactions. These are financial contracts awarded at day-ahead prices and settled at real-time prices. In PJM these virtual transactions include incremental offers (INCs)...
2011
EXCERPT FROM THE INTRODUCTION:
On March 15, 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released Order 745. The pur- pose of the Order was to require that demand response (DR) resources participating in RTO or ISO markets are paid at the locational...