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Understanding the Fine Structure of Electricity Prices

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This paper analyzes the special features of electricity spot prices derived from the physics of this commodity and from the economics of supply and demand in a market pool. Besides mean-reversion, a property they share with other commodities, power prices exhibit the unique feature of spikes in trajectories. We introduce a class of discontinuous processes exhibiting a jump-reversion component to properly represent these sharp upward moves shortly followed by drops of similar magnitude. Our approach allows to capture - for the first time to our knowledge - both the trajectorial and the statistical properties of electricity pool prices. The quality of the fitting is illustrated on a database of major US power markets.
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halshs-00144198 , version 1 (02-05-2007)

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Helyette Geman, A. Roncoroni. Understanding the Fine Structure of Electricity Prices. Journal of Business, 2006, 79 (3), pp.1-74. ⟨halshs-00144198⟩
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