The Value of Compute Load: What cloud markets reveal about the potential for flexible data centers
Pricing from transparent wholesale data markets can tell us a lot about the energy value and the cost of unserved energy for computing and AI.
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Thoughts on market design, game theory and random musings in global electricity and power systems.
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WECC Market Co-ordination and the Bonneville Seam
“Managing seams” – if you have attended any conference on Western Electricity Markets recently you may have heard this term mentioned.
Demand-side hedging and market participation: looking back, looking forward
How should consumer side contracts be designed to hedge consumers in this new electricity market paradigm? We review some of the seminal works and newer works that offer insights.
Architectures for risk hedging incentives: standard sizing or tailored fit?
Hedging and risk-management has received much-needed focus in recent market design discussion papers, but multiple options exist for completing markets for risk.
Auction design and price formation: Is marginal pricing the 'best-and-final' offer?
Alternative price formation mechanisms can improve incentives, especially in the face of market power and supply scarcity and but are they worth the change?
Should ‘stability’ be an objective of price formation?
A recently proposed fast-track rule change by the Australian Energy Market Operator represents a material reappraisal of a price formation principles as viewed by an independent system operator.
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