Strategic analysis of electricity markets under uncertainty: A conjectured-price-response approach

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 423-432

  Centeno, Efraim ^a   Reneses, Javier ^a   Barquín, Julián ^a  

^a Universidad Pontificia Comillas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conjectural variation; Electricity markets; Game theory; Hydroelectric thermal power generation; Quadratic programming (QP); Stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

COSTS; GAME THEORY; MARKETING; OPTIMIZATION; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ELECTRICITY MARKETS; HYDROELECTRIC-THERMAL POWER GENERATION; STRATEGIC ANALYSIS;

ELECTRICITY;

EID: 33947325148     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2006.887890     Document Type: Article

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