Stochastic Electricity Dispatch: A Challenge for Market Design

31 Pages Posted: 26 Aug 2016 Last revised: 5 Dec 2016

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Endre Bjorndal

Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Business and Management Science

Mette Helene Bjorndal

Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Business and Management Science

Kjetil Midthun

SINTEF Technology and Society

Asgeir Tomasgard

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Date Written: December 5, 2016

Abstract

We consider an electricity market with two sequential market clearings, for instance representing a day-ahead and a real-time market. When the first market is cleared, there is uncertainty with respect to generation and/or load, while this uncertainty is resolved when the second market is cleared. We compare the outcomes of a stochastic market clearing model, i.e. a market clearing model taking into account both markets and the uncertainty, to a myopic market model where the first market is cleared based only on given bids, and not taking into account neither the uncertainty nor the bids in the second market. While the stochastic market clearing gives a solution with a higher total social welfare, it poses several challenges for market design. The stochastic dispatch may lead to a dispatch where the prices deviate from the bid curves in the first market. This can lead to incentives for selfscheduling, require producers to produce above marginal cost and consumers to pay above their marginal value in the first market. Our analysis show that the wind producer has an incentive to deviate from the system optimal plan in both the myopic and stochastic model, and this incentive is particularly strong under the myopic model. We also discuss how the total social welfare of the market outcome under stochastic market clearing depends on the quality of the information that the system operator will base the market clearing on. In particular, we show that the wind producer has an incentive to misreport the probability distribution for wind.

Keywords: Market design, electricity, stochastic programming

JEL Classification: C60; L10; L94

Suggested Citation

Bjorndal, Endre and Bjorndal, Mette Helene and Midthun, Kjetil and Tomasgard, Asgeir, Stochastic Electricity Dispatch: A Challenge for Market Design (December 5, 2016). NHH Dept. of Business and Management Science Discussion Paper No. 2016/11, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2829355 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2829355

Endre Bjorndal (Contact Author)

Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Business and Management Science ( email )

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Mette Helene Bjorndal

Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Business and Management Science ( email )

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Norway

Kjetil Midthun

SINTEF Technology and Society ( email )

Norway

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Asgeir Tomasgard

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Høgskoleringen
Trondheim NO-7491, 7491
Norway

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