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Inflow Uncertainty in Hydropower Markets

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In order to analyse the consequences of uncertainty for prices and efficiency in a hydropower system, we apply a two-period model with uncertainty in water inflow. We study three different market structures, perfect competition, monopoly and oligopoly and stress the importance of the shape of the demand function under different distributions of water inflow. The uncertainty element creates possibilities of exercising market power depending on the distribution of uncertainty among producers. The introduction of thermal power into the hydropower market has an impact on the residual demand function, which is important for the hydropower producers' possibilities of exercising market power.

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  • Petter Vegard Hansen, 2007. "Inflow Uncertainty in Hydropower Markets," Discussion Papers 520, Statistics Norway, Research Department.
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    Keywords

    hydropower; uncertainty; electricity; thermal power; demand functions; monopoly; duopoly;
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    JEL classification:

    • D40 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - General
    • Q11 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis; Prices
    • Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
    • L10 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - General

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