Price Formation in Electricity Markets
Speaker:
Diogo Gomes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Date and Time:
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 - 2:10pm to 3:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
Here, we introduce a price-formation model where a large number of small players can store and trade electricity. Our model is a constrained mean-field game (MFG) where the price is a Lagrange multiplier for the supply vs. demand balance condition. We establish the existence of a unique solution using a fixed-point argument. In particular, we show that the price is well-defined and it is a Lipschitz function of time. Then, we study linear-quadratic models that can be solved explicitly and compare our model with real data.
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