dc.contributor.author | Green, Richard | en_US |
dc.contributor.other | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-04-03T17:06:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-04-03T17:06:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | en_US |
dc.identifier | 2004-010 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45019 | |
dc.description.abstract | Electricity generators can raise the price of power by withholding their plant from the market. We discuss two ways in which this could have affected prices in the England and Wales Pool. Withholding low-cost capacity which should be generating will raise energy prices but make the pattern of generation less efficient. This pattern improved significantly after privatisation. Withholding capacity that was not expected to generate would raise the Capacity Payments based on spare capacity. On a multi-year basis, these did not usually exceed ₃competitive₄ levels, the cost of keeping stations open. The evidence for large-scale capacity withholding is weak. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Supported by the Leverhulme Trust through the award of a Philip Leverhulme prize, and a grant from the Social Research Council | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 21 p | en_US |
dc.publisher | MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | MIT-CEEPR (Series) ; 04-010WP. | en_US |
dc.title | Did English generators play cournot? : capacity withholding in the electricity pool | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.oclc | 58723519 | en_US |