Energy storage technologies can provide services to the electricity grid that are necessary for its usability … duration, cycling occurrence, power, and market price. Storage technologies suitable to these applications, such as pumped …

In this paper, we analyze the strategic function of gas storage focusing on how gas storage decisions impact … that gas storage is actually used strategically even in a symmetric oligopolistic setting along the gas value chain …. Storage is then a way to intensify competition on the spot market. Second, we analyze the setting where a company has favored …

regulator has encouraged the use of auctions for the sale of storage capacity. This paper considers the merits of auctions and …