Abstract
One of the most difficult issues for using wind power in practice is that the power output largely depends on the wind condition, and as a result, the future output may be volatile or uncertain. Therefore, the forecast of power output is considered important and is key to electric power generating industries making the wind power electricity market work properly. However, the use of forecasts may cause other problems due to “forecast errors”. The objective of this chapter is to summerize conventional tools to manage such risks in the wind power electricity market. In particular, we focus on possible insurance claims or the so-called weather derivatives, which are contracts written on weather indices whose values are constructed from weather data.
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All the data used in this chapter were provided by ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation.
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The author would like to thank H. Fukuda, R. Tanikawa, and N. Hayashi from ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation for their helpful comments and discussions.
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Yamada, Y. (2013). Risk Management Tools for Wind Power Trades: Weather Derivatives on Forecast Errors. In: Pardalos, P., Rebennack, S., Pereira, M., Iliadis, N., Pappu, V. (eds) Handbook of Wind Power Systems. Energy Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41080-2_3
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