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  • The impact of generation mix on Australian wholesale electricity prices

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    Author(s)
    Worthington, AC
    Higgs, H
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    Worthington, Andrew C.
    Higgs, Helen
    Year published
    2017
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    Abstract
    This paper examines the impact of generation mix, encompassing fossil fuels (black and brown coal and natural gas) and renewables (hydropower and wind power) on daily spot electricity prices across the five regional electricity markets in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) from January 2006 to June 2012. The objective is to gain insights into the emergent effect of government policy and industry developments regarding the choice of generation on wholesale electricity prices. Using least squares and quantile regressions, it is found that the changing generation mix used for producing electricity exerts a strong ...
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    This paper examines the impact of generation mix, encompassing fossil fuels (black and brown coal and natural gas) and renewables (hydropower and wind power) on daily spot electricity prices across the five regional electricity markets in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) from January 2006 to June 2012. The objective is to gain insights into the emergent effect of government policy and industry developments regarding the choice of generation on wholesale electricity prices. Using least squares and quantile regressions, it is found that the changing generation mix used for producing electricity exerts a strong influence on wholesale prices. This is especially the case with prices expected to increase markedly with the increasing utilization of gas-fired generation used to support the intermittent and variable production from renewables and from the policy-driven use of renewables wind power associated with the current renewable energy target and carbon taxation in Australia.
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    Journal Title
    Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy
    Volume
    12
    Issue
    3
    Publisher URI
    http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15567249.2015.1060548
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/15567249.2015.1060548
    Copyright Statement
    © 2017 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy on 01 Mar 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15567249.2015.1060548
    Subject
    Mechanical engineering
    Applied economics
    Environment and resource economics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/341986
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