Some electricity markets use automated mitigation procedures against market power abuse. This requires marginal cost estimates, which have to be derived from observed auction bids. Current stimation procedures can be improved by using available auction data more systematically. Our redesign...

Nuclear stretching operation in Germany until April 15, 2023 brings down German (European) power prices by 6.01 percent (1.51 percent) until April 15, 2023 and by 2.98 percent (0.65 percent) in 2023, saving 4.8 TWH (8.6 TWh) of natural gas and 3.3 Mt (4.5 Mt) of CO2 emissions in 2023. Nuclear...