price zones

Endogenous Price Zones and Investment Incentives in Electricity Markets: An Application of Multilevel Optimization with Graph Partitioning

  • Mirjam Ambrosius
  • Veronika Grimm
  • Thomas Kleinert
  • Frauke Liers
  • Martin Schmidt
  • Gregor Zöttl
    • Categories (Mixed) Integer Nonlinear Programming, Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Global Optimization Tags , , , ,

    In the course of the energy transition, load and supply centers are growing apart in electricity markets worldwide, rendering regional price signals even more important to provide adequate locational investment incentives. This paper focuses on electricity markets that operate under a zonal pricing market design. For a fixed number of zones, we endogenously derive the … Read more