In a deregulated market, the decision to add generation rests with private investors. This paper evaluates how generator profits are affected by increasing wind generation. Using hourly historical data for the Irish Single Electricity Market, we simulate new series of electricity prices,...

In this paper we study an advertising campaign launched by the Irish government to induce more energy-efficient behaviour and we assess its effect on residential natural gas consumption. We first analyse changes in the daily consumption of natural gas and find that advertising leaflets had a...