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We consider wholesale electricity market pools in which generators must offer supply functions that are centrally dispatched. Each generator seeks a supply function to offer to the spot market, so as to maximise expected return. We give conditions under which a supply function exists that optimises return for every demand realisation. We also analyse the case in which the behaviour of the competition can be modelled by an appropriate probability distribution, and derive optimality conditions for the optimal supply-function offer in this case. The paper concludes with some remarks on applying the theory to the case where each generator must offer a limited number of prices in their stack.
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Anderson, E.J., Philpott, A.B. (2002). On Supply Function Bidding in Electricity Markets. In: Greengard, C., Ruszczynski, A. (eds) Decision Making Under Uncertainty. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, vol 128. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9256-9_6
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