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The Future of Electricity:
A Market with Costs of Zero?
1Richard Green, IAEE European Conference, 2017
Marginal
Supply
2
GW
£/MWh
Nuclear CCGT OCGT
Marginal Cost
Prices reflect Marginal Costs
Demand and Supply
3
GW
£/MWh
Nuclear CCGT OCGT
Marginal Cost
4
Annual Generation Costs
£/kW-yearOpen Cycle Gas Turbine
Combined Cycle
Gas Turbine
Nuclear
Hours per yearOCGT
cheapest
CCGT
cheapest
Nuclear
cheapest
5
Load-duration and Capacity
OCGT
cheapest
CCGT
cheapest
Nuclear
cheapest
Hours per year
GW
Nuclear
CCGT
OCGT
6
Generator Costs & Revenues
£/kW-yearOpen Cycle Gas Turbine
Combined Cycle
Gas Turbine
Nuclear
Hours per yearOCGT
cheapest
CCGT
cheapest
Nuclear
cheapest
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Electricity Gas Coal
per MWh of electricity
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British Energy Prices
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£/MWh
Source: ElectricInsights.co.uk
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Electricity Gas Coal
per MWh of electricity
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British Energy Prices
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£/MWh
Source: ElectricInsights.co.uk
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German Energy Prices:
a market working well?
0%
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120%
140%
€0
€10
€20
€30
€40
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€60
€70
2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
Gas price / 45%
Electricity price
Prices
(€/MWh)
Installed capacity
(relative to peak load)
Source: Green and Staffell, Oxrep, 2016
Austrian
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German Energy Prices:
The Merit Order Effect
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€30
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2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
Gas price / 45%
Electricity price
Prices
(€/MWh)
Installed capacity
(relative to peak load)
Source: Green and Staffell, Oxrep, 2016
Austrian
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Renewables in a Power Market
The long-run adjustment
Demand and Supply
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GW
£/MWh
Nuclear CCGT OCGT
Marginal Cost
The merit order effect
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Capacity and Load
OCGT CCGT Nuclear Hours per year
GW
Nuclear
CCGT
OCGT
After renewables
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Solar
Wind
Conventional
Peak Demand
Great Britain
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Generating Capacity
15
GW
Source: Digest of
UK Energy Statistics
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015
UK-wide, including Northern Ireland
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Generators’ Load Factors
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Coal
CCGT
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Solar
Wind
Conventional
Peak Demand
Great Britain
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Capacity and Peak Demand
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GW
Source: Digest of
UK Energy Statistics
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Nuclear Biomass Gas Coal Hydro Peaking Imports Wind Solar D P R
A Low-Carbon Christmas
£/MWh
GW
Day-ahead Price
25 December 2016 26 December 2016 27 December 2016
Source: ElectricInsights.co.uk
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Nuclear Biomass Gas Coal Hydro Peaking Imports Wind Solar D P R
A Low-Carbon Christmas
£/MWh
GW
Real-time Price
Day-ahead Price
25 December 2016 26 December 2016 27 December 2016
Source: ElectricInsights.co.uk
Supply and Demand
£/MWhDemand
GW
Marginal Cost
Price
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A volatile market
April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
£/MWhDay-ahead Electricity Price (half-hourly)
Great Britain, April 2016-March 2017
Source: ElectricInsights.co.uk
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Day-ahead Prices in 2016
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£/MWh
Source: ElectricInsights.co.uk
hours0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000
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Surplus over annual average fuel cost
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Day-ahead Prices in 2016
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£/MWh
Source: ElectricInsights.co.uk
hours0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000
Black bars are for coal-fired plant, blue for gas
-50
-25
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125
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Surplus over annual average fuel cost
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Day-ahead Prices in 2016
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£/MWh
Source: ElectricInsights.co.uk
hours
Black bars are for coal-fired plant, blue for gas
-50
0
50
100
150
Surplus over annual average fuel cost
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Day-ahead Prices in 2016
25
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£/MWh
Source: ElectricInsights.co.uk
0%
50%
100%
Cumulative surplus
Gas
Coal
hours
Black bars are for coal-fired plant, blue for gas
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2016 Demands
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2016 Load-duration curves
More need for peaking plant?
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(Detail)
Gross
Net
Gross
GW
Hours/yearSource: ElectricInsights.co.uk
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2016 Demands
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2016 Load-duration curves
More need for peaking plant?
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0 100 200 300 400 500
(Detail)
Gross
Net
Gross
Net
Source: ElectricInsights.co.uk
GW GW
Hours/year Hours/year
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Usage over 17 years of demand and weather data
More risk for peaking plants?
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No Renewables
No Renewables
Current Renewables
(15 GW Wind, 12 GW PV)
Double Renewables
(30 GW Wind, 24 GW PV)
Current
Renewables
Double
Renewables
100-hour mean annual running time 20-hour meanGW
Hours/year
• Scheduling model with start costs and no-load costs
– Capacity assumed infinitely divisible
• Reserve requirement of 3GW in all periods
• Demands from GB load profiles, scaled to common base
• Demand reduction linear in price above £40/MWh
• Renewable profiles for wind and PV from Iain Staffell and
Stefan Pfenninger: renewables.ninja
• Assume 15 GW onshore wind
• Assume 50 GW offshore wind
• Assume 15 GW Solar PV
The Model With No Name
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A market of the future…
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Gas OCGT Wind Solar Spilled Demand Price (RHS)
Week 7 of “2010”
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A simulated future
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GW £/MWh
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Gas OCGT Wind Solar Spilled Demand Price (RHS)
Week 7 of “2010”
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A simulated future
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GW £/MWh
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Gas OCGT Wind Solar Spilled Demand Price (RHS)
Week 44 of “2010”
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A simulated future
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GW £/MWh
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Gas OCGT Wind Solar Spilled Demand Price (RHS)
Week 44 of “2010”
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A simulated future
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GW £/MWh
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Gas OCGT Wind Solar Spilled Demand Price (RHS)
Week 44 of “2010”
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A simulated future
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GW £/MWh
overall Gas OCGT Solar Wind
Relative revenues by type of plant
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A barrier to renewables?
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A volatile market
April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
£/MWhDay-ahead Electricity Price (half-hourly)
Great Britain, April 2016-March 2017
Source: ElectricInsights.co.uk
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A less volatile market
April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
€/MWhDay-ahead Electricity Price (half-hourly)
Norway, April 2016-March 2017
Source: ElectricInsights.co.uk
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Renewables in an Energy Market
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Supply and Demand
£/MWhDemand
GW
Marginal Cost
Price
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Supply and Demand
£/MWhDemand
GW
Marginal Cost
Remaining Resource
Future Demand
Opportunity Cost
( )
Price
Available
Resource
Finn’s bathtub, from Forsund (2007) Hydropower Economics
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Reservoir Levels
GWh
Time
Energy Capacity
Low price minimises
the risk of throwing
away energy
High price minimises
the risk of running out
of energy
Low
price
again
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Nuclear Wind Solar Storage Demand Price (RHS)
Week 7 of “2010”
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A simulated future
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GW £/MWh
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Wind Solar Gas OCGT Spilled Demand Price (RHS)
Week 7 of “2010”
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A simulated future
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GW £/MWh
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Nuclear Wind Solar Storage Demand Price (RHS)
Week 44 of “2010”
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A simulated future
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GW £/MWh
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Wind Solar Gas OCGT Spilled Demand Price (RHS)
Week 44 of “2010”
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A simulated future
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GW £/MWh
Thermal Market Storage Market
Average Gas Peaking Solar Wind
Revenues by type of plant
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A more level playing field?
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Peaking/
Storage
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18Seasonal Storage (LHS) Peaking Storage (RHS)
8760 hours of “2010”
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Stored Energy Levels
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TWh
Jan Mar SepMay Jul Nov DecOctAugJunFeb Apr
GWh
10
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20
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8760 hours of “2010”
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Stored Energy Levels
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Jan Mar SepMay Jul Nov DecOctAugJunFeb Apr
TWh GWh
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0
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125
-15
-10
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Peaking Seasonal Price (RHS)
Week 47 of “2010”
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Storage flows and prices
GW £/MWh
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Seasonal Storage Price
8760 hours in “2010”
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A storage-renewable market
50
GWh £/MWh
Jan Mar SepMay Jul Nov DecOctAugJunFeb Apr
• Balancing
• Uncertainty
• Transmission
• Distribution
• Inertia
• What happens with intermediate amounts of storage
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What have I left out?
• Markets based on power will have volatile prices in a
high-renewable world
• Storage can smooth these prices, creating markets based
on energy
• Prices would be set to meet the energy constraint over
long periods of time
• Would we value generators on their expected energy
output?
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Conclusions