Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 496 pages
- Published by: Wiley-IEEE Press
- Edition: 1st Edition May 17, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0471150401
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471150404
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 7.6 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 1.9 pounds
Product Review
"the quality of its content deserves a wide readership" --
Power System Economics The Journal of Energy Literature, Vol.V111, No.2, 2002"This book is for anyone seeking to understand how cost/price relationships involved in electrical energy production and distribution may ideally be determined." (
Electrical Apparatus, August 2002)
"the quality of its content deserves a wide readership"(
Power System Economics The Journal of Energy Literature, Vol.V111, No.2, 2002)
Product Description
The first systematic presentation of electricity market design-from the basics to the cutting edge. Unique in its breadth and depth. Using examples and focusing on fundamentals, it clarifies long misunderstood issues-such as why today's markets are inherently unstable. The book reveals for the first time how uncoordinated regulatory and engineering policies cause boom-bust investment swings and provides guidance and tools for fixing broken markets. It also takes a provocative look at the operation of pools and power exchanges.
* Part 1 introduces key economic, engineering and market design concepts.
* Part 2 links short-run reliability policies with long-run investment problems.
* Part 3 looks at classic designs for day-ahead and real-time markets.
* Part 4 covers market power, and
* Part 5 covers locational pricing, transmission right and pricing losses.
The non-technical introductions to all chapters allow easy access to the most difficult topics. Steering an independent course between ideological extremes, it provides background material for engineers, economists, regulators and lawyers alike. With nearly 250 figures, tables, side bars, and concisely-stated results and fallacies, the 44 chapters cover such essential topics as auctions, fixed-cost recovery from marginal cost, pricing fallacies, real and reactive power flows, Cournot competition, installed capacity markets, HHIs, the Lerner index and price caps.
About the Author
Steven Stoft has a Ph.D. in economics (U.C. Berkeley) as well as a background in physics, math, engineering, and astronomy. He spent a year inside FERC and now consults for PJM, California and private generators. Learn more at www.stoft.com.
Reader Reviewscons: It covers a lot of entry level material regarding power system and economics. If you know both power system engineering and economics, it won't be a help since it is too elementary. If you don't know power system or economics, don't expect you can build up a solid background by reading this book. pros: it is good review of EE101 and ECO101. Alert: this book really didn't tell you anything about designing a electricity market: the fundmental incentive compatibility is not covered at all! IT IS JUST A REVIEW BOOK, NOT A GUIDE BOOK YOU CAN DEPENDEND ON FOR MARKET DESIGN ADN ANALYSIS.
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