An agent-based analysis of the German electricity market with transmission capacity constraints

Energy Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4132-4144

  Veit, Daniel J ^a   Weidlich, Anke ^a   Krafft, Jacob A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agent based simulation; Transmission grid; Wholesale power markets

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED ANALYSIS; AGENT-BASED MODEL; AGENT-BASED MODELING; AGENT-BASED SIMULATION; BIDDING BEHAVIOR; ELECTRICITY MARKET; ELECTRICITY SYSTEM; GERMANY; HIGH WINDS; HIGH-VOLTAGE GRID; LITTLE RESEARCH; MARKET PARTICIPANTS; MARKET SPLITTING; POWER MARKETS; SOCIAL WELFARE; STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR; TRANSMISSION CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS; TRANSMISSION CONSTRAINT; TRANSMISSION GRID; TRANSMISSION GRIDS; WHOLESALE POWER MARKETS;

COMMERCE; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; WIND POWER;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY MARKET; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND POWER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 69949146317     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.05.023     Document Type: Article

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