Energy Markets & Economics - JEM162

• Anglický název: Energy Markets & Economics
• Český název: Energy Markets & Economics
• Zajišťuje: Institut ekonomických studií (23-IES)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2018 do 2020
• Semestr: zimní
• E-Kredity: 4
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:písemná
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:2/2, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: 185 / 185 (185)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu
• Garant: Mgr. Petra Valíčková, Ph.D.; Nick Elms
• Vyučující: Nick Elms; Mgr. Dominik Herman; Olena Chorna, M.A.; Mgr. Petra Valíčková, Ph.D.
• Třída: Courses for incoming students

Anotace

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Poslední úprava: Čuprová Michaela, Mgr. (02.02.2020)

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This course covers a variety of theoretical and empirical topics related to the economics of the power sector. This includes concepts such as supply and demand for power, the structure of the industry (generation, transmission and distribution, retail supply), economic regulation of the power sector, wholesale power markets and their design (including competition issues), energy efficiency and retail supply, among other topics.

The core objective of this course is to gain a good understanding of the power sector with a focus not only on theoretical concepts but also on a more practical application of economic concepts related to power markets.

Course outline:
1. Introduction to the economics of the power sector (supply and demand for power, structure of the industry – generation, transmission and distribution, retail supply);
2. Possible models for organising the power sector, technical characteristics that affect that choice and sector liberalisation;
3. Need for economic regulation and current approaches to regulation and related concepts (cost plus or rate of return, price cap vs revenue cap, RIIO, RAB, etc.);
4. Wholesale electricity trade, including energy only markets and capacity markets, and competition issues;
5. Investment decision making in generation and transmission;
6. CO2 emissions, overview of decarbonisation policy instruments, EU ETS;
7. Renewables and energy efficiency measures; and
8. Retail supply, retail competition and retail pricing (including concepts of long run and short run marginal costs, average costs and market failures related to information).

Poslední úprava: Hollmannová Monika, Ing. (29.10.2019)

Deskriptory

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Poslední úprava: SCHNELLEROVA (29.10.2019)

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Lecture 1: Introduction to the economics of energy and power markets

The aim is to provide an overview of the power sector and how it is organised, as well as an understanding of basic technical and economic concepts related to energy supply and demand. We will cover the following topics:

• The importance of energy and power to the economy;
• Power sector value chain:
• Primary source acquisition and generation
• Conventional generation;
• Renewable generation;
• Electricity networks (transmission & distribution);
• Retail markets and electricity demand.

Lecture 2: Organisation of the power sector

The typical structure of the power market has evolved over time. The aim is to give an overview of the different ways in which the power sector is organised and the economics driving the choice of organisation. We will cover:

• Different models for organising the power market; 
• Organisation of transmission and distribution network businesses; 
• Technical and economic characteristics of the sector and implications for organising the wholesale and retail markets;
• Brief history of power sector deregulation and how this relates to power markets today; 
• Factors driving power sector reforms, e.g. country policy objectives etc.

Lecture 3: Need for regulation and current approaches to regulation and related concepts (cost plus or rate of return, price cap, RIIO, concept of RAB, etc.)

• Why regulate – trade-off between regulation and competition
• Market failures
• Cost of regulation
• Objectives of regulation
• Achieving allocative and productive efficiency
• What to regulate
• How to regulate
• Ex-ante vs ex-post type of regulation
• Incentives (cost plus, rate of return, yardstick)
• Setting allowed revenues and end consumer tariffs. 

Lecture 4: Wholesale electricity trade, including energy only markets and capacity markets

• Technical and economic issues that affect the organisation of wholesale trade (re-cap)
• Organisation of wholesale trading, including output decisions and pricing
• Power pool
• Balancing group model
• Real world market outcomes
• Competition issues

Lecture 5: Investment decision making

• Generation
• Energy only markets
• Energy markets with a capacity mechanism
• Transmission
• Investment under uncertainty

Lecture 6: Climate change, decarbonisation and EU ETS

• Climate change and emissions targets
• CO2 abatement costs
• Social cost of CO2
• Overview of policy instruments for decarbonisation
• Need for intervention (market failure)
• Types of intervention
• EU ETS and its effect on power market outcomes
• Overview of EU ETS as a cap and trade mechanism
• Effect on power market operations and investment decision making
• Interaction between the EU ETS and other decarbonisation policy instruments

Lecture 7: Other policy instruments for decarbonisation

• Renewable energy and its potential
• Why support renewable generation
• Form of renewable support mechanism
• Intermittency of renewable energy sources
• Pricing of energy from renewable energy sources
• Energy efficiency as a cost-effective way to reduce energy use and emissions
• Benefits associated with energy efficiency goes beyond avoiding climate change (improving security of supply, fighting fuel poverty
• Ways to improve energy efficiency and energy efficiency policies
• Energy efficiency and market failures

Lecture 8: Retail supply, retail competition and pricing

• Role of retail markets
• Retailers and their ‘added value’ in the value chain (buying power, offering a range of complementary products – metering, real time pricing)
• Experience with retail competition in the EU
• How retail markets work
• Competitive retail markets
• Tariff structure
• Load profiles
• Back-up suppliers
• Setting tariffs in non-competitive retail markets
• Demand side response
• Retail market failures

 

Course schedule:

This course is taught in block lectures with the following schedule: 

• 1st lecture: Friday 4th October (12:30 - 13:50)
• 2nd lecture: Friday 4th October (14:00 - 15:20)
• 3rd lecture: Friday 25th October (12:30 - 13:50)
• 4th lecture: Friday 25th October (14:00 - 15:20)
• 5th lecture: Friday 8nd November (12:30 - 13:50)
• 6th lecture: Friday 8nd November (14:00 - 15:20)
• 7th lecture: Friday 29th November(12:30 - 13:50)
• 8th lecture: Friday 29th November(14:00 - 15:20)

Please note that the dates of the lecture might change in case we need to travel for work.

Poslední úprava: Valíčková Petra, Mgr., Ph.D. (13.09.2020)

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

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Poslední úprava: Bednařík Petr, PhDr., Ph.D. (15.05.2020)

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The course is designed for both undergraduate and graduate students. Nevertheless, it is necessary to have good background knowledge in microeconomics as well as quantitative skills to successfully pass this course.

The final grade is based on a written empirical paper (term paper) and performance during the final exam, with the following weights:

• Written empirical paper (40%); and
• Final written exam (60%).

Moreover, you are required to get at least 50% in your final exam in order to successfully pass the course. We follow the Dean’s measure No. 17/2018 and the stipulated rules for the A-F grading using rounding up to the nearest whole percentage:

• 91% and above => A
• 81-90 % => B
• 71-80 % => C
• 61-70 % => D
• 51-60 % => E
• 0-50 % => F

For example, a total result of 90.5% (combining the results for the empirical paper and final exam) corresponds to grade A and a total result of 50.5% corresponds to grade E. This also means that you’ll have to get at least 50.5% to successfully pass the course.
The A-F grading shall be interpreted as follows (lecturer’s translation from the Czech version of the Dean's measure No. 17/2018):

• A – Excellent (excellent performance with only minor errors);
• B – Very good (above average performance, but with some errors);
• C – Good (overall good performance with a number of significant errors);
• D – Satisfactory (acceptable performance but with considerable shortcomings);
• E – Sufficient (performance meets minimum requirements);
• F – Insufficient, fail (a considerable amount of additional work is needed).

In this course you are required to write a term paper, which counts for 40% of your total mark for the course. The term paper consists of two tasks:

• Describing the power sector in a country of your choice (Task 1: 70% of the grade for the term paper); and
• Solving a set of computational exercises that relate to the topics discussed during the lectures (Task 2: 30% of the grade).

For this term paper we ask that you form teams of between two and four people. We encourage you to find team members yourself but if anyone has difficulty, we are here to assist you to find suitable teammates. 

Poslední úprava: Valíčková Petra, Mgr., Ph.D. (08.09.2019)

Literatura

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Poslední úprava: Čuprová Michaela, Mgr. (02.02.2020)

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There is no single textbook for this course and for this reason we try to include a lot of information in the course material discussed during the lectures. Nevertheless, there are several good books from which you can read selected chapters that link well to the topics covered in this course: 

• Power: A Practical Handbook, Danielle Beggs and Rajan Phakey, SNR Denton, Globe Law and Business, ISBN: 978-1905783854, 251 pages, available in the IES library. 
• The Economics of Electricity Markets, Barryl R. Biggar, Wiley – IEEE, 1st Edition, September 2014, ISBN: 978-1118775752, 432 pages, available in the IES library. 
• Making competition work in electricity, Sally Hunt, Wiley, 2002, ISBN: 978-0-471-22098-5, available online. 
• Steven Stoft, Power system economics: designing markets for electricity, 2002, ISBN: 978-0-471-15040-4, 496 pages (part of the book available online)

Poslední úprava: Bednařík Petr, PhDr., Ph.D. (06.06.2020)

Požadavky ke zkoušce

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Poslední úprava: Hollmannová Monika, Ing. (29.10.2019)

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The course is designed for both undergraduate and graduate students. Nevertheless, it is necessary to have good background knowledge in microeconomics as well as quantitative skills to successfully pass this course.

The final grade is based on a written empirical paper (term paper) and performance during the final exam, with the following weights:

• Written empirical paper (40%); and
• Final written exam (60%).

Moreover, you are required to get at least 50% in your final exam in order to successfully pass the course. We follow the Dean’s measure No. 17/2018 and the stipulated rules for the A-F grading using rounding up to the nearest whole percentage:

• 91% and above => A
• 81-90 % => B
• 71-80 % => C
• 61-70 % => D
• 51-60 % => E
• 0-50 % => F

For example, a total result of 90.5% (combining the results for the empirical paper and final exam) corresponds to grade A and a total result of 50.5% corresponds to grade E. This also means that you’ll have to get at least 50.5% to successfully pass the course.
The A-F grading shall be interpreted as follows (lecturer’s translation from the Czech version of the Dean's measure No. 17/2018):

• A – Excellent (excellent performance with only minor errors);
• B – Very good (above average performance, but with some errors);
• C – Good (overall good performance with a number of significant errors);
• D – Satisfactory (acceptable performance but with considerable shortcomings);
• E – Sufficient (performance meets minimum requirements);
• F – Insufficient, fail (a considerable amount of additional work is needed).

In this course you are required to write a term paper, which counts for 40% of your total mark for the course. The term paper consists of two tasks:

• Describing the power sector in a country of your choice (Task 1: 70% of the grade for the term paper); and
• Solving a set of computational exercises that relate to the topics discussed during the lectures (Task 2: 30% of the grade).

For this term paper we ask that you form teams of between two and four people. We encourage you to find team members yourself but if anyone has difficulty, we are here to assist you to find suitable teammates.

Poslední úprava: Hollmannová Monika, Ing. (29.10.2019)