Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113274 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
EWL Working Paper No. 04/15
Publisher: 
University of Duisburg-Essen, Chair for Management Science and Energy Economics, Essen
Abstract: 
The German market has seen a plunge in wholesale electricity prices from 2007 until 2014, when base futures prices dropped by more than 40 percent. In this paper we determine the fundamental components of electricity futures prices and quantify their impact on the price drop as well as on operation margins. Our methodology is based on a parsimonious model in which the supply stack is approximated by piecewise linear functions. A fundamental futures price estimate can then be given by averaging up the hourly equilibrium prices over the futures contract's delivery period. It turns out that the parsimonious model is able to replicate electricity futures prices and discover non-linear dependencies in futures price formation. We quantify which of the factors fuel prices, emission prices, renewable feed-in, conventional generation capacities, and demand developments contributed most to the observed price slide.
Subjects: 
Futures Prices
Bid Stack
Fundamental Factors
German Electricity Market
Price Modeling
Efficient Markets
Market Expectations
Piecewise Linear Function
Investment Decision
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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