Different indexes are used in electricity markets worldwide to represent the daily behavior of spot prices. However, the peculiarities of these markets require a careful choice of the index, based on mathematical formulation and its statistical properties. Choosing a bad index may influence the...

This paper focuses on the impact of EUAs on the optimal policy of a competitive electricity producer. The effect of grandfathering is consistently shown to introduce significant distortions to the system. It is theoretically shown that there is a threshold value of carbon price so that, for...