retail electricity markets with risk aversion and asset swaps
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EPOC Winter Workshop 2010 Anthony Downward, David Young, Golbon Zakeri. Retail Electricity Markets with Risk Aversion and Asset Swaps. Outline. Motivation Background Risk Aversion Retail Markets Model Two-stage Entry into retail market One-node example NZ inspired example Conclusions - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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EPOC Winter Workshop 2010
Anthony Downward, David Young, Golbon Zakeri
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Outline Motivation Background
Risk AversionRetail Markets
ModelTwo-stageEntry into retail marketOne-node exampleNZ inspired example
Conclusions Future Work
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Wolak Report Early last year Frank Wolak’s report to
the Commerce Commission was released.
It highlighted some shortcomings of the NZEM, including:limited competition for thermals in dry years,only one firm with generation in both islands.
It suggested that asset swapping may improve market outcomes.
Motivation
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Ministerial Review Later that year, the Electricity Technical
Advisory Group produced a discussion paper that presented three asset swap proposals.
In December last year, the government stated its intent to give Tekapo A+B to Genesis and Whirinaki to Meridian.
Virtual swaps were also proposed, where contracts for energy in either island are compulsorily traded.
Motivation
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Wholesale Market Paper appearing in the Energy Journal,
examining the effect of asset swaps and divestiture in the wholesale market.
In that paper, we assume Cournot Competition and produce some counter-intuitive results, particularly due to the presence of transmission.
Background
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Retail Markets Consumers enter into contracts with
retailers, reducing the risk that they would otherwise face buying from the spot market.
Retailers compete with each other for the same consumers through mainly price competition.
Retailers must pass on the risk of purchasing from the spot market to consumers.
Background
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Risk Aversion There is significant risk involved in
participating an electricity retail market. Retailers purchase electricity at the spot
price and sell to consumers at predetermined fixed prices.
In New Zealand, vertical integration is common; this acts an internal hedge against spot price fluctuations.
Background
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Entry in Retail Markets Before a retailer decides to participate in
the market it must determine whether it’s a profitable decision, and whether there is significant risk involved.
There may be fixed costs associated with participating in the market, which are not related to the spot price of electricity or the amount of power served.
Background
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Coherent Risk Measures Artzner et al. introduced the concept of
coherent measures of risk. A coherent risk measure has the
following properties:sub-additivity,translation invariance,positive homogeneity,monotonicity.
We employ conditional value at risk (CVaR) as our risk measure.
Background
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Conditional Value at Risk This is also known as average value at
risk or expected shortfall. The CVaR at level β of an uncertain
profit is given by the expected loss of the lowest 100 β % of profits.
Firms who are risk-averse will balance the expected return of their decisions against the risk associated with that decision.
Background
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Conditional Value at RiskBackground
10%
Profit
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Differentiated Products We model retail demands as functions
of retail prices using a differentiated products model.
This model assumes that total demand is inelastic, and consumers merely switch between retailers.
The demand of a retailer is:
Model i i j i
j
d a b p p
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Wholesale Market We allow retailers to also own
generation (vertical integration). We assume that the generation is bid
into the market at cost. This is said to be a competitive equilibrium.
At the time that retail contracts are determined, the future wholesale prices are unknown, due to uncertainties around hydro inflows and outages.
Model
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Entry into Retail When firms consider entering a market,
they must take into account:the fixed cost of entry,the expected returns,the risk.
In our model, the retailers decide whether or not it is in their interests to participate in each market.
Model
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Summary The full model consists of three stages:
Entry – here firms make 0/1 decisions regarding whether they have a retail base at each node.
Retail competition – each firm sets a retail price at each node.
Wholesale market – the uncertainty is resolved and wholesale prices and profits are computed.
Model
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2nd Stage Formulation All firms optimise the following profit
maximisation problem simultaneously.
Model
max 1
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p p a b p p P
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Single node First we consider a situation with two
gentailers at a single node. Firm A owns a thermal plant whereas B
owns a hydro, each with capacity of 100MW.
The firms compete for customers in the retail market.
The total demand is 150MW. Water value: h ~ U[0,100]
Example
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Wholesale Prices and Profits As a function of the water value, h, the
wholesale prices and profits can be computed:
Example
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0, 50,100 50 , 50.
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Risk-neutral Equilibrium If firms are risk-neutral, it can be shown
that the profit from the wholesale market has no bearing on the retail pricing.
We can compute the equilibrium retail prices for both firms to be $137.50 in this case.
In this situation both firms share the retail demand equally.
Example
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Best Response Now let us examine the optimal retail
prices for the firms as they increase their risk-aversion.
The hydro plant makes more profit when water values are low, whereas the thermal plant makes more profit when the water values are high.
Example
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Best ResponseExam
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Risk vs. ReturnExam
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$155.00
$137.50 $137.50
$131.25
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ProfitExam
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EquilibriumExam
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Retailers Entering Now suppose that we allowed retailers
to enter this market if it were profitable to do so.
Such a retailer would enter the market if the risk-adjusted profit exceeds the cost of entry.
For simplicity, in this example, we will assume that all firms share the same attitude toward risk.
Example
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ProfitsExam
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Endogenous EntryExam
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Two node (inspired by NZ) In this model we have 2 nodes and 3
firms:firm A owns 2 thermal plants in the north,firm B owns 2 hydro plants in the south,firm C owns 1 thermal in the north and 1
hydro in the south. The North and South have separate
retail markets. Firm B is not in the North and firm B is not in the South.
Example
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Asset SwapBefore Swap After Swap
Example
H H H
T T T
H H H
T T T
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PricesExam
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Status Quo If the asset swap does not incentivise an
additional firm to enter into each retail market, then we find the following change in prices.
Example
North Price South Price CostA B C A B C
Before Swap 283.35 – 288.90 – 344.84 344.84 916775
After Swap 287.20 – 290.83 – 345.49 346.13 923697
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Firms enter the other market On the other hand, if firm A enters the
retail market in the South and firm B enters in the North, we find the following prices.
Example
North Price South Price CostA B C A B C
Before Swap 225.12 226.90 226.90 271.34 274.05 268.53 691235
After Swap 227.79 227.79 227.79 278.17 278.17 278.17 733751
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Cost of EntryExam
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All firms in both islands
No entry
Firm A enters South
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Conclusions Risk aversion for firms can affect
whether or not they enter a market. If they do enter, whether there exists a
risk premium or discount for the consumers depends on the particular circumstances.
From our model of the asset swap, we find that this will only have a beneficial affect on consumer prices if additional retailers enter each market.
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Future Work Calibrate the model to New Zealand:
What risks are retailers concerned about?What entry costs exist?
Include virtual asset swaps. Suggestions?