This paper uses an experiment to identify what modelling decisions significantly affect estimates of own-price elasticity for non-residential electricity demands in the United States (U.S.). Based on ~175,000 panel data analyses of 10,944 monthly observations by state available from the Energy...

Motivated by the relatively infrequent but very large price spikes in the day-ahead and real-time energy markets operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, this paper proposes an insurance that a retail electric provider (REP) may buy to mitigate financial insolvency caused by...