Workshop on Pricing in Deregulated Electricity Markets

     
 

Workshop on Pricing in
Deregulated Electricity Markets


Voss, Norway 27-30 November 2011
     

Sunday 27 November 2011

18:00 - 19:00 Registration
19:00 -  Welcome Dinner at the hotel
     

Monday 28 November 2011

09:00 - 10:15 Keynote speech: Pricing of Non-Convexities William W. Hogan 
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00 Capacity Payments with a Semi-Lagrangean Approach Veronica Araoz
Kurt Jörnsten
11:00 -11:30 Linear Clearing Prices in Non-Convex European Day-Ahead Electricity Markets Johannes Müller
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 15:00 Visit to Power Station: Evanger Kraftverk
15:00 - 15:30 Refreshments
15:30 - 16:00 Optimal Long-Run Generation-Transmission Planning in Workably Competitive Markets Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh
16:00 - 16:30 Congestion Management in the Nordic Electricity Market Endre Bjørndal
Mette Bjørndal
Victoria Gribkovskaia
16:30 - 17:30 Hot Topics in the Norwegian Power Market  
   - Disturbing Pricing in Deregulated Electricity Markets: The Norwegian-Swedish Certificate-Market; Too much Capacity, Threat or Possibility? Toril H. Christensen
   - Cross-Border Trade Jørgen Bjørndalen
   - Discussion  
18:15 -  Dinner: Voss speciality at Smalahovetunet Ivar Løne - Meet at hotel lobby, bus leaves for the restaurant 18:15
     

Tuesday 29 November 2011

09:00 - 10:15 Keynote speech: Investment and Capacity Expansion in the Electricity Market Yves Smeers
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00 The Real Options to Start-up, Shutdown, and Abandon: Empirical Evidence from the Electricity Industry Stein-Erik Fleten
Erik Haugom
Carl J. Ullrich
11:00 - 11:30 Evaluation of Virtual Power Plants Petter Bjerksund
Gunnar Stensland
11:30 - 12:00 Piecewise Linear or Step Demand and Supply Functions in Deregulated Electricity Markets - Pros and Cons Kristine Hovland
Kurt Jörnsten
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:00 Evaluating the Impacts of the European Emission Trading Scheme on the Italian Electricity Markets E. Allevi
Francesca Bonenti
Giorgia Oggioni
14:00 - 14:30 Dead Battery? Wind Power, the Spot Market, and Hydro Power Interaction in the Nordic Electricity Market Johannes Mauritzen
14:30 - 15:00 European Climate Goals to 2020 and the Electricity Sector Gunnar S. Eskeland
Torben Mideksa
Nathan Rive
15:00 - 15:30 Refreshments
15:30 - 16:00 Uncertain Climate Policy Decisions and Investment Timing: Evidence from Small Hydropower Plants Ane Marte Heggedal
Kristin Linnerud
Stein-Erik Fleten
16:00 - 16:30 A Stochastic Programming Approach to Power System Planning Asgeir Tomasgard
19:00 - 'Julebord'-dinner at the hotel
     

Wednesday 30 November 2011

09:00 - 10:15 Keynote speech: Pricing Non-Convexities in an Electricity Pool Antonio J. Conejo
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break and Check Out
10:45 - 11:15 Market Power in the Norwegian Electricity Market: Are the Transmission Bottlenecks Truly Exogenous? Faisal Mehmood Mirza
Olvar Bergland
11:15 - 11:45 Relaxing Competition Through Speculation: Committing to a Negative Supply Slope Pär Holmberg
Bert Willems
11:45 - 12:00 Closing Remarks  
12:00 - Lunch