The case of negative day-ahead electricity prices

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)22-34
Number of pages13
JournalEnergy Economics
Volume35
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2013
Externally publishedYes

Abstract

In recent years, Germany has significantly increased its share of electricity produced from renewable sources, which is mainly due to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG). The EEG substantially impacts the dynamics of intra-day electricity prices by increasing the likelihood of negative prices. In this paper, we present a non-Gaussian process to model German intra-day electricity prices and propose an estimation procedure for this model. Most importantly, our model is able to generate extreme positive and negative spikes. A simulation study demonstrates the ability of our model to capture the characteristics of the data.

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    Electricity, Fractional integration, Lévy processes, Negative prices, Price spikes

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The case of negative day-ahead electricity prices. / Fanone, Enzo; Gamba, Andrea; Prokopczuk, Marcel.
In: Energy Economics, Vol. 35, 01.01.2013, p. 22-34.

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Fanone E, Gamba A, Prokopczuk M. The case of negative day-ahead electricity prices. Energy Economics. 2013 Jan 1;35:22-34. doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2011.12.006
Fanone, Enzo ; Gamba, Andrea ; Prokopczuk, Marcel. / The case of negative day-ahead electricity prices. In: Energy Economics. 2013 ; Vol. 35. pp. 22-34.
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