Common intuition holds that retail real-time pricing (RTP) of electricity demand should become more beneficial in markets with high variable renewable energy (VRE) supply mainly due to increased price volatility. Using German market data, we test this intuition by simulating long-run electricity market equilibria with carbon-tax-induced VRE investment and real-time price responsive and nonresponsive ...
2016| Christian Gambardella, Michael Pahle, Wolf-Peter Schill
The emerging literature on power markets with high shares of fluctuating renewables suggests that more frequent start-up procedures of thermal power plants may become an increasing concern, both for costs and possibly also for market design. Based on official scenario assumptions, we investigate how start-ups and related costs develop in Germany, where the share of fluctuating renewables quadruples ...
2016| Wolf-Peter Schill, Michael Pahle, Christian Gambardella
We analyze the interactions between different renewable support schemes and the benefits of real-time pricing (RTP) using a stylized economic model with a detailed demand-side representation calibrated to the German market. We find that there are considerable differences between a market premium on energy and capacity regarding wholesale prices, support levies and market values, which are all related ...
2015| Michael Pahle, Wolf-Peter Schill, Christian Gambardella, Oliver Tietjen
We analyze the gross welfare gains from real-time retail pricing in electricity markets where carbon taxation induces investment in variable renewable technologies. Applying a stylized numerical electricity market model, we find a U-shaped association between carbon taxation and gross welfare gains. The benefits of introducing real-time pricing can accordingly be relatively low at relatively high carbon ...
In:
Environmental & Resource Economics
75 (2020), S. 183-213
| Christian Gambardella, Michael Pahle, Wolf-Peter Schill
We analyze the welfare effects of two different renewable support schemes designed to achieve a given target for the share of fluctuating renewable electricity generation: a feed-in premium (FiP), which can induce negative wholesale prices, and a capacity premium (CP), which does not. For doing so we use a stylized economic model that differentiates between real-time and flat-rate pricing and is loosely ...
In:
The Energy Journal
37 (2016), SI3, S. 147-169
| Michael Pahle, Wolf-Peter Schill, Christian Gambardella, Oliver Tietjen
We analyze the interactions between different renewable support schemes and the benefits of real-time pricing (RTP) using a stylized economic model with a detailed demand-side representation calibrated to the German market. We find that there are considerable differences between a market premium on energy and capacity regarding wholesale prices, support levies and market values, which are all related ...
Cleveland, Ohio:
USAEE,
2015,
24 S.
(USAEE Working Paper Series ; 15-222)
| Michael Pahle, Wolf-Peter Schill, Christian Gambardella, Oliver Tietjen