Market power analysis in the EEX electricity market: An agent-based simulation approach

IEEE Power and Energy Society 2008 General Meeting: Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century, PES

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wang, Jianhui ^a,b   Botterud, Audun ^a,b   Conzelmann, Guenter ^a   Korintarov, Vladimir S ^a,b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

Agent based modeling and simulation; EEX market; Electricity markets; Electricity prices; Market power

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONVERSION; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; POTENTIAL ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACES; POWER GENERATION;

21ST CENTURY; AGENT-BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION; AGENT-BASED SIMULATION; BIDDING STRATEGIES; ECONOMIC WITHHOLDING; EEX MARKET; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ELECTRICITY MARKETS; ELECTRICITY PRICES; EUROPEAN ENERGY EXCHANGE; GENERATION COMPANIES; MARGINAL COSTS; MARKET CLEARING; MARKET CLEARING PRICE; MARKET PARTICIPANTS; MARKET POWER; MARKET PRICING; PHYSICAL WITHHOLDING; PRODUCTION COSTS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SPOT MARKETS; STRATEGIC BIDDING; WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY MARKETS;

MARKETING;

EID: 52349090339     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PES.2008.4596563     Document Type: Conference Paper

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