In this paper, a weighted combination of different demand vs. price functions referred to as Composite Demand Function (CDF) is introduced in order to represent the demand model of consuming sectors which comprise different clusters of customers with divergent load profiles and energy use...

A market regulator is considered to increase the market efficiency and hence several regulations are tried to achieve this target. In many of such regulations, special conditions of renewable energies have been introduced. Accordingly, it is observed that some changes in regulations may have...

Nowadays subsidy payments on electrical energy have to be managed and controlled to prevent any side effect particularly in developing countries. Effects of some external factors on Energy consumption and electricity distribution indices are analyzed in this paper. External factors are...

This paper provides a technique to derive the bidding strategy in the day-ahead market for a large consumer that procures its electricity demand in both day-ahead market and a subsequent adjustment market. It is considered that hourly market prices are normally distributed and this correlation...