Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113661 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Citation: 
[Journal:] Energy Journal [ISSN:] 0195-6574 [Volume:] 32 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Elsevier [Place:] Amsterdam [Year:] 2011 [Pages:] 59-87
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
We study the strategic utilization of storage in imperfect electricity markets. We apply a game-theoretic Cournot model to the German power market and analyze different counterfactual and realistic cases of pumped hydro storage. Our main finding is that both storage utilization and storage-related welfare effects depend on storage ownership and the operator's involvement in conventional generation. Strategic operators generally under-utilize owned storage capacity. Strategic storage operation may also lead to welfare losses, in particular if the total storage capacity is controlled by an oligopolistic generator that also owns conventional generation capacity. Yet in the current German situation, pumped hydro storage is not a relevant source of market power.
Subjects: 
Electric Power Markets
Storage
Market Power
Nash-Cournot
JEL: 
Q40
Q41
L13
D43
Published Version’s DOI: 
Additional Information: 
This is a postprint of an article published in Energy Journal 32 (2011), 3, p. 59-87, available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol32-No3-3
Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Accepted Manuscript (Postprint)

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