Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/105056 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Oldenburg Discussion Papers in Economics No. V-368-14
Publisher: 
University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics, Oldenburg
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the dynamic behavior of day-ahead spot prices in the German electricity spot market due to positive structural shocks in wind and solar power. It uses a dynamic structural vector autoregressive model to estimate the related structural impulse response functions. The estimates suggest that wind power shocks have a more prolonged negative effect on spot prices than solar power shocks. These may be explained by signifcant autocorrelations of wind power for larger lags. The total negative merit order effect of a solar power shock, however, is larger. One reason might be that solar power shocks coincide with demand peaks. Past empirical results show differences in the total average negative merit order effects. The inherently dynamic nature of wind and solar power could explain these dfferences because the dynamics, which are ignored by past studies on the subject using static ordinary least squares estimations, could be transferred to the merit order effects.
Subjects: 
Electricity Market
Spot Prices
Wind and Solar Power Dynamics
Structural Vector Autoregressive Model
Structural Impulse Response Functions
JEL: 
Q42
Q41
C32
C51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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