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Incentive Effects of Environmental Adders in Electric Power Auctions

Abstract:
We make a systematic examination of the options for incorporating environmental adders into auctions for non-utility generation. To date, adders have been a popular tool of some regulators for the planning process, but have not been embraced as a tool for operations. We argue that any rational implementation of adders into a competitive acquisition process will have at least an indirect effect on the operations of the resulting electric system. If adders are to be employed, regulators must therefore be comfortable enough with them to use them explicitly in both the operation and selection of generation resources.

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Energy Specializations: Electricity – Markets and Prices ; Energy and the Environment – Other

JEL Codes: D44: Auctions, Q53: Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling, Q54: Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming, C72: Noncooperative Games, Q40: Energy: General, C70: Game Theory and Bargaining Theory: General, Q42: Alternative Energy Sources

Keywords: Environmental adders, Electric power auctions, Electric utilities, Non-utility generation

DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol15-No3-4

Published in Volume15, Number 3 of the bi-monthly journal of the IAEE's Energy Economics Education Foundation.

 

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