Equilibria in two-stage electricity markets

TitleEquilibria in two-stage electricity markets
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsAbhishek Gupta, Rahul Jain, Kameshwar Poolla, Pravin Varaiya
Conference NameIEEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control
Date Published12/2015
PublisherIEEE
Conference LocationOsaka, Japan
KeywordsRM11-006
Abstract

Most electricity markets have multiple stages, which include one or more forward markets and the spot market. We consider two stages - a day-ahead market and a real-time market. We study equilibrium outcomes in such markets assuming demand to be deterministic. We show via counterexamples that in such two-stage electricity markets, (i) a Nash equilibrium may not exist, or (ii) there may be multiple inefficient Nash equilibria. We also give two sufficient conditions - a "congestion-free" condition and a "monopoly-free" condition - under which a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium exists and yields efficient outcome.

URLhttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7403136&refinements%3D4229014380%26filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A7402066%29
DOI10.1109/CDC.2015.7403136