Qiong Wu, Zhun Xie, H. Ren, Qifen Li, Yongwen Yang
{"title":"Optimal Trading Strategies for Multi-Energy Microgrid Cluster Considering Demand Response Under Different Trading Modes: A Comparison Study","authors":"Qiong Wu, Zhun Xie, H. Ren, Qifen Li, Yongwen Yang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3892173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3892173","url":null,"abstract":"The linkage of neighborhood multi-energy microgrids (MEMGs) may overcome the disadvantage of one single microgrid (MG) since surplus/deficient energy can meet balance internally and realize self-satisfaction. In order to realize successful cooperation of such a complicated energy system, optimal trading strategy and reasonable trading price among all entities are important. In this study, a bi-level optimization model combined of two trading modes is proposed under different scenarios: intermediary agent (IA)-based trading mode where IA acts as an intermediate operator, as well as direct trading mode without IA. Stackelberg game theory (SGT) method and supply/demand (S/D) ratio method are used for price determination, respectively. Again, integrated demand response (IDR) is also considered in this study. As an illustrative example, a comparative study is implemented in a neighboring energy cluster combing three park-level MEMGs. The results show that, compared with the situation that each MEMG acts alone, a cluster obviously increase total benefit which may contribute to the development of tailored policy instruments. In addition, although direct trading among MEMGs enjoys higher benefit, self-sufficient ability is lower than the situation considering IA, which may help policy makers to more accurately predict merits and demerits associated with different energy trading modes among MEMGs.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115535569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Liquefied Natural Gas Spot Market and Valuation of the Rerouting Option","authors":"H. Geman, Sofia Philippou","doi":"10.21314/jem.2020.208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21314/jem.2020.208","url":null,"abstract":"The liquefied natural gas (LNG) market has experienced remarkable changes in the last few years, with long-term contracts being replaced by short-term ones and optionalities being granted by suppliers in the context of a large increase in natural gas production. Flexible LNG contracts give buyers the option to redirect their cargo if they identify a higher spot price at a point different from the original destination. The goal of this paper is twofold: (1) to describe the new outlook of LNG markets, which has become more and more spot-centric, with Asian LNG futures bringing transparency to spot and forward prices; and (2) to address the valuation of the rerouting option, a number that must be accounted for by the buyer when assessing the profitability of a given cargo. As an example, we apply the rerouting option valuation methodology to a scenario in which the supplier is the United States, the original destination is Germany and the alternative destination is Japan. We assume the rerouting of the vessel takes place when the cargo reaches the waters of Germany. This approach can be used for any group of three countries by adjusting the transportation costs. Our paper also depicts the value of the option as a function of the volatility of the natural gas spot prices in the alternative destination.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128244493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pricing Relationships between Oil and Renewable Firms under Extreme Conditions: The Effects of Negative WTI Prices (Online Appendix 2/3)","authors":"S. Corbet, John W. Goodell, Samet Gunay","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3712958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3712958","url":null,"abstract":"We test for the existence of volatility spillovers and co-movements among energy-focused corporations during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, inclusive of the April 2020 events where West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil future prices became negative. Employing the spillover index approach of Diebold and Yilmaz [2012];as well as developing a DCC-FIGARCH conditional correlation framework and using estimated spillover indices built on a generalised vector autoregressive framework in which forecast-error variance decompositions are invariant to the variable ordering, we examine the sectoral transmission mechanisms of volatility shocks and contagion throughout the energy sector. Among several results, we find positive and economically meaningful spillovers from falling oil prices to both renewable energy and coal markets. However, this result is only found for the narrow portion of our sample surrounding the negative WTI event. We interpret our results being directly attributed to a sharp drop in global oil, gas and coal demand, rather than because of a sudden increase in oil supply. While investors observed the US fracking industry losing market share to coal, they also viewed renewables as more reliable mechanism to generate long-term, stable and low-cost supply.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121914019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID-19 Outbreak and US Economic Policy Uncertainty: An ARDL Approach","authors":"A. Matuka","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3685346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3685346","url":null,"abstract":"The outbreak of COVID-19 is generating shock waves to financial markets and the real economy all over the world and the depth of the recession coming ahead depends on policy response. This paper investigates the impact of COVID-19 (measured by the number of new cases and deaths) and brent oil prices on the economic policy uncertainty of the United States. I use daily data from 1 January to 25 August 2020 and I use an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to estimate the relation of COVID-19, oil price dynamics and policy uncertainty. The findings indicate that new infection cases in the US have a significant effect on the US EPU, while there is no significant impact of death cases on economic policy uncertainty. Further, there is an inverse relation between brent oil prices and policy uncertainty meaning that economic policy uncertainty will increase as brent oil prices decrease.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130285183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forecasting Electricity Prices With Machine Learning: Predictor Sensitivity","authors":"Christof Naumzik, S. Feuerriegel","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3599839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3599839","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000Trading on electricity markets occurs such that the price settlement takes place before delivery, often day-ahead. In practice, these prices are highly volatile as they largely depend upon a range of variables such as electricity demand and the feed-in from renewable energy sources. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to provide accurate forecasts..\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This paper aims at comparing different predictors stemming from supply-side (solar and wind power generation), demand-side, fuel-related and economic influences. For this reason, this paper implements a broad range of non-linear models from machine learning and draw upon the information-fusion-based sensitivity analysis.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000This study disentangles the respective relevance of each predictor. This study shows that external predictors altogether decrease root mean squared errors by up to 21.96%. A Diebold-Mariano test statistically proves that the forecasting accuracy of the proposed machine learning models is superior.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000The performance gain from including more predictors might be larger than from a better model. Future research should place attention on expanding the data basis in electricity price forecasting.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000When developing pricing models, practitioners can achieve reasonable performance with a simple model (e.g. seasonal-autoregressive moving-average) that is built upon a wide range of predictors.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The benefit of adding further predictors has only recently received traction; however, little is known about how the individual variables contribute to improving forecasts in machine learning.\u0000","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121532139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Boda Kang, Christina Sklibosios Nikitopoulos, Marcel Prokopczuk
{"title":"Economic Determinants of Oil Futures Volatility: A Term Structure Perspective","authors":"Boda Kang, Christina Sklibosios Nikitopoulos, Marcel Prokopczuk","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3417706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3417706","url":null,"abstract":"To assess the economic determinants of oil futures volatility, we firstly develop and estimate a multi-factor oil futures pricing model with stochastic volatility that is able to disentangle long-term, medium-term and short-term variations in commodity markets volatility. The volatility estimates reveal that in line with theory, the volatility factors are unspanned, persistent and carry negative market price of risk, while crude oil markets are becoming more integrated with financial markets. After 2004, short-term volatility is driven by industrial production, term and credit spreads, the S&P 500 and the US dollar index, along with the traditional drivers including hedging pressure and VIX. Medium-term volatility is consistently related to open interest and credit spreads, while after 2004 oil sector variables such as inventory and consumption also impact this part of the term structure. Interest rates mostly matter for long-term futures price volatility.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124064477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating Time Series and Cross-Sectional Signals for Optimal Commodity Portfolios","authors":"Regina Hammerschmid, Harald Lohre","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3504394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3504394","url":null,"abstract":"We study the optimal combination of different commodity signals in a dynamic portfolio theoretic framework. Following Brandt et al. (2006, 2009) we parameterize the portfolio weights of a risk-averse mean-variance investor to integrate information from time series predictors and cross-sectional characteristics of commodity assets. We show that the long end of the futures curve as well as open interest have significant timing power, whereas the short end of the futures curve and past returns are relevant characteristics for tilting commodities. Combining timing and tilting strategies outperforms all factor benchmarks out-of-sample and after transaction costs. Moreover, the optimal commodity allocation is not priced by common risk factors, such as commodity carry or momentum.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129798007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physical Macroeconomics: Part IV - Value-Energy Interrelationships","authors":"V. Bartenev","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3447842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3447842","url":null,"abstract":"The principle of system similarity (isomorphism) between economic value and thermodynamic free energy is discussed. Based on this principle, macroeconomic efficiency is defined as the ratio of GDP and primary energy. It is demonstrated that moderate inflation and macroeconomic efficiency growth are closely interrelated notions.<br><br>The principle of isomorphism between economic value and free energy is expressed in the fact that value includes an objective useful energy component and subjective information component.<br><br>The isomorphism principle also means that money is the unit of measurement and the means of distribution of the working potential of the socio-economic system. By consuming primary energy, the economy increases its working potential, measured in monetary units as the overall value, or GDP. The working potential is increased in accordance with the law of conservation of energy, which is expressed in economics (in monetary units) as the balance equation.<br>","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"25 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121677358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Nice Electricity Market Design","authors":"C. Woo, J. Zarnikau","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3408694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3408694","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper proposes a nice electricity market design that is efficient and practical, meaningfully satisfying the wants of a market design’s stakeholders. Hence, this new design should be considered by countries that have reformed their electricity sectors or are in the process of doing so.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128776879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alfredo Trespalacios, Lina M. Cortés, Javier Perote
{"title":"Uncertainty in Electricity Markets from a Seminonparametric Approach","authors":"Alfredo Trespalacios, Lina M. Cortés, Javier Perote","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3402030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3402030","url":null,"abstract":"The spot price of electricity is highly skewed and heavy-tailed, as a result of the interaction of different variables that affect that market. Such characteristics impact the design of power plants with different technologies, fuel prices, and energy demand. This paper introduces the semi-non-parametric (SNP) approach to describe the uncertainty of different variables in an electricity market, reducing the limitations that normality and parametric density functions impose. The selection of probability density functions is achieved in terms of a finite Gram-Charlier expansion fitted by the maximum likelihood criterion. The study case is the Colombian electricity market, where the SNP distribution outperforms the normal distribution for spot price, national energy demand, the climate index ONI, and the series of hydrologic inflows of the system and some rivers. The results show that risk analysis in electricity markets requires the measurement of skewness, kurtosis, and high-order moments. The flexible methodology in our study has directly applications for implementing policies on electricity markets that improve the sustainability indicators of different systems. The particular characteristics of the series under analysis should be considered as a starting point for risk analysis and portfolio choice.","PeriodicalId":260665,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Energy (Topic)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114564783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}