Managing Volumetric Risk of Long-term Power Purchase Agreements

42 Pages Posted: 29 Nov 2018 Last revised: 23 Jan 2019

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Bo Tranberg

Department of Engineering; Danske Commodities

Rasmus Thrane Hansen

Jyske Bank A/S

Leopoldo Catania

Aarhus University - School of Business and Social Sciences; Aarhus University - CREATES

Date Written: November 5, 2018

Abstract

There exists a negative dependence between wind power production and electricity spot price. This is an important fact to consider for risk management of long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs). In this study we investigate this dependence by constructing a joint model using constant as well as time-varying copulas. We propose using a new generation of score-driven models as marginal model for the spot price of electricity as these are more robust to extreme events compared to ARMA-GARCH models. We apply the new model to pricing and risk management of PPAs and benchmark it against a previously published model of the ARMA-GARCH type. Our comparison shows that the score-driven model results in a statistically significant improvement of predicting the Value-at-Risk (VaR), which is of high importance for risk management of long-term PPAs. Further, comparing constant and time--varying copulas we find that all time-varying copulas are significantly better than their constant counterparts at predicting the VaR, hence time-varying copulas should be used in risk management of PPAs.

Keywords: Volumetric risk, Time-varying copula model, Score-driven model, Power purchase agreement, Electricity market

Suggested Citation

Tranberg, Bo and Thrane Hansen, Rasmus and Catania, Leopoldo, Managing Volumetric Risk of Long-term Power Purchase Agreements (November 5, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3278789 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3278789

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Rasmus Thrane Hansen

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Leopoldo Catania

Aarhus University - School of Business and Social Sciences ( email )

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