Spot Pricing of Electricity [Paperback]

There is a need for fundamental changes in the ways society views electric energy. Electric energy must be treated as a commodity which can be bought, sold, and traded, taking into account its time-and space-varying values and costs. This book presents a complete framework for the establishment of such an energy marketplace. The framework is based on the use of spot prices. In general terms: o An hourly spot price (in dollars per kilowatt hour) reflects the operating and capital costs of generating, transmitting and distributing electric energy. It varies each hour and from place to place. o The spot price based energy marketplace involves a variety of utility-customer transactions (ranging from hourly varying prices to long-term, multiple-year contracts), all of which are based in a consistent manner on hourly spot prices. These transactions may include customers selling to, as well as buying from, the utility. The basic theory and practical implementation issues associated with a spot price based energy marketplace have been developed and discussed through a number of different reports, theses, and papers. Each addresses only a part of the total picture, and often with a somewhat different notation and terminology (which has evolved in parallel with our growing experience). This book was xvii xviii Preface written to serve as a single, integrated sourcebook on the theory and imple? mentation of a spot price based energy marketplace.1 Overview.- 1.1 Goal of Book.- 1.2 Three Steps to an Energy Marketplace.- 1.3 How Will Customers Respond?.- 1.4 Energy Marketplace Operation: A Developed Country.- 1.5 Energy Marketplace Operation: A Developing Country.- 1.6 Discussion of Chapter 1.- I: The Energy Marketplace.- Preface to Part I: The Energy Marketplace.- 2 Behavior of Hourly Spot Prices.- 3 Energy Marketplace Transactions.- 4 Implementation.- 5 A Possible Future: Deregulation.- II: Theory of Hourly Spot Prices.- 6 Generation Only.- 7 Generation and Network.- 8 Revenue ls.