On reducing uplift payment in electricity markets

2009 IEEE/PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition, PSCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Bingjie ^a   Luh, Peter B ^a   Litvinov, Eugene ^b   Zheng, Tongxin ^b   Zhao, Feng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Business Architecture and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Duality gap; Electricity pricing mechanism design; No load cost; Uplift payment

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; AUCTION MECHANISMS; CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS; CLEARING PRICE; CONVEX HULL; DUALITY GAP; ECONOMIC DISPATCH; ELECTRICITY MARKET; ELECTRICITY PRICING MECHANISM DESIGN; ENERGY MARKETS; NO-LOAD COST; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPTIMALITY CONDITIONS; OUTPUT LEVELS; PRICING MODELS; SHADOW PRICE; SIDE-PAYMENTS; START-UP COSTS; UNIT COMMITMENTS; UPLIFT PAYMENT; WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY MARKETS;

COSTS; DEREGULATION; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; MACHINE DESIGN; POWER TRANSMISSION;

COMMERCE;

EID: 70349188293     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PSCE.2009.4840027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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