Kenya has one of the fastest electrification rates in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the increase in electrification rates, rural and underserved regions remain a critical challenge requiring a cost-effective strategy that maximises the use of stand-alone and off-grid solutions. This paper uses the...

Feed-in tariffs (FiTs) have been instrumental in expanding renewable electricity generation but can distort investment by insulating producers from market price volatility. This paper develops a twostage model of electricity markets with stochastic demand and supply shocks, showing that a higher...

The transition from traditional labor intensive to modern capital intensive production is a key factor for industrial development. Using half a million observations from Indian manufacturing plants, I analyze the effects of a secular decrease in industrial electricity prices through the lens of...

I estimate the cross-border effects of Swedish nuclear outages using hourly data on day-ahead prices, generation, and consumption across 15 bidding zones in Northern Europe from 2021 to 2024. I exploit unplanned outages as exogenous variation in nuclear supply and find that a 1 GW reduction in...

Locational marginal pricing (LMP) provides efficient locational dispatch and investment signals but requires a complementary congestion hedging instrument to function effectively. This paper investigates how exposure to locational price differences is managed in North American nodal electricity...

Power flow tracing (PFT) methods algorithmically reconstruct how electricity generators supply specific loads and contribute to network losses, enabling physically grounded attribution of electricity flows across a grid. Despite nearly three decades of research, the field lacks a unified...

In deregulated electricity markets, Generation Companies (GENCOs) are exposed to substantial financial risk due to volatile and uncertain electricity prices. Traditional generation asset valuation approaches, which rely primarily on expected profit, fail to adequately capture downside risk under...

Since the deregulation of electricity markets in the 1990s, U.S. power grids have witnessed the creation of an increasingly diverse suite of financial instruments designed to mitigate risks caused by underlying generation and consumption patterns. However, the nature of risks is shifting rapidly...

With the liberalization of the electricity markets in 1998, Germany opted for a single, nationwide wholesale price. Regional differences in supply and demand are not taken into account. In the event of grid congestion, electricity generators are paid to adjust their output. This leads to rising...

Significant discrepancies in electricity pricing are observed across countries, particularly between industrial and household rates. Although the literature studies the relationship between electricity prices and economic performance, little empirical evidence exists on how electricity price...

This report benchmarks the costs of transitioning to electric bus (e-bus) fleets in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), drawing on data from 13 countries and 21 cities covering the period 2021–2025. It examines the full cost structure of e-bus deployment, including vehicle acquisition,...

Aufgrund stark gestiegener Stromkosten möchte die deutsche Bundesregierung ab 2026 mit dem Industriestrompreis energieintensive Branchen entlasten, indem bis zu 50 Prozent ihres Verbrauchs auf 50 Prozent des Großhandelspreises (min. 50 €/ MWh) gedeckelt werden. Dieser reiht sich in eine...

Aufgrund stark gestiegener Stromkosten möchte die deutsche Bundesregierung ab 2026 mit dem Industriestrompreis energieintensive Branchen entlasten, indem bis zu 50 Prozent ihres Verbrauchs auf 50 Prozent des Großhandelspreises (min. 50 €/ MWh) gedeckelt werden. Dieser reiht sich in eine...

Price premia between day-ahead and intraday electricity markets are well documented and often attributed to factors such as forecast errors or market frictions. However, existing explanations provide limited insight into why these price premia can exhibit a systematic diurnal structure, as...

In European day-ahead electricity markets, carbon allowance costs passed through by marginal fossil plants raise consumer expenditure and generate inframarginal rents for non-emitting generators. We propose a settlement modification: when the zonal day-ahead price exceeds a threshold,...

The article presents a blockchain-based architecture for decentralized electricity trading that tokenizes energy delivery rights and cash-flows. Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) are implemented as NFTs, while buy/sell orders are encoded as ERC-1155 tokens whose tokenId packs a time slot and...

We estimate household electricity demand responses to hourly prices under real-time pricing using Finnish smart-meter data, contrasting results under the European energy crisis with those from previously relatively stable market conditions. Methodologically, we show that the standard wind-based...

Damit die Energiewende gelingt, muss die deutsche Energieinfrastruktur (Stromübertragungsnetze und Stromverteilnetze) umfassend ausgebaut werden. Es sind Investitionen von mehreren hundert Milliarden Euro nötig. Ein erheblicher Teil davon entfällt auf den Bedarf an zusätzlichem Eigenkapital....

Dynamic pricing strategy is a well-known method for utility pricing used in many parts of the world and is rapidly growing in trend due to its ability to adjust utility pricing to the utmost real-time calculations. One such method is what we call Time-of-Use (TOU), a strategy that adjusted...

Aspiring to become the "Battery of Southeast Asia," the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has rapidly expanded its electricity generation capacity to export power to neighbouring countries. However, this expansion introduces several long-term risks, including over-capacity, rising...

This paper evaluates the temporary reduction in energy taxes implemented by the German government between June and September 2022. We use pricing and quantity data from the wholesale market for crude oil, gasoline, and diesel and find an average pass through of 80% to 85% of the tax cut, which...

The paper examines the price volatility, key determinants, and autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) framework of Romania's Intraday Continuous Market (IDC) during the summer months. The stability of the ARDL-ECM coefficients is assessed using the cumulative sum (CUSUM) test. We explore the...