Power System Economics: Designing Markets for Electricity

by Steven Stoft

The first systematic presentation of electricity market design-from the basics to the cutting edge. Unique in its breadth and depth. Using examples and focusing on fundamentals, it clarifies long misunderstood issues-such as why today's markets are inherently unstable. The book reveals for the first time how uncoordinated regulatory and engineering policies cause boom-bust investment swings and provides guidance and tools for fixing broken markets. It also takes a provocative look at the operation of pools and power exchanges.
* Part 1 introduces key economic, engineering and market design concepts.
* Part 2 links short-run reliability policies with long-run investment problems.
* Part 3 examines classic designs for day-ahead and real-time markets.
* Part 4 covers market power, and
* Part 5 covers locational pricing, transmission right and pricing losses.
The non-technical introductions to all chapters allow easy access to the most difficult topics. Steering an independent course between ideological extremes, it provides background material for engineers, economists, regulators and lawyers alike. With nearly 250 figures, tables, side bars, and concisely-stated results and fallacies, the 44 chapters cover such essential topics as auctions, fixed-cost recovery from marginal cost, pricing fallacies, real and reactive power flows, Cournot competition, installed capacity markets, HHIs, the Lerner index and price caps.

About the Author
Steven Stoft has a Ph.D. in economics (U.C. Berkeley) as well as a background in physics, math, engineering, and astronomy. He spent a year inside FERC and now consults for PJM, California and private generators. Learn more at www.stoft.com.

Genres: Economics

496 pages, Paperback

First published May 17, 2002

Reviews

[Patricia]

Title Power system economics : designing markets for electricity / Steven Stoft
Author Steven Stoft
Publisher Piscataway : IEEE Press, 2002
Pages XXIV, 468 p.
ISBN 978-0-471-15040-4 . - 0-471-15040-1
Subject ELECTRIC ENERGY SYSTEMS ; ECONOMICS
Subject class LFT - Electricity supply: operation and tariffs. Electric power utilisation
VNK - Service industries (general): economics

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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY : LFT 2002 STO

[Iman · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books in this field.

[Thi win]

i got a lot of knowledge from it..

[Talha]

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