Peak Load and Capacity Pricing: Theory and Practice in Electricity

ISBN-13: 9781137384812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 253 str.

Chris Harris

Opis

Peak Load and Capacity Pricing lays out clear pricing strategies for understanding peak load and capacity pricing structures, further cementing electricity's role as an asset class with fixed and variable costs. This work presents a global recasting of el

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. The Modeling Framework 3. The Framework and Development of Peak Load Pricing 4. Relaxing the Hard Capacity Constraint 5. Modeling Capacity Using Derivatives 6. Capacity Mechanisms 7. The Power Complex 8. Final comments

O autorze

Chris Harris is Honorary Fellow in Energy Policy at Exeter University, UK, following a period as Visiting Professor in Sustainable Power Distribution at Bath University, UK. He is Head of Regulation at RWE npower, with previous roles including heads of internal markets, asset optimization and asset management. He has PhDs in fracture mechanics and regulatory economics.