High Frequency Export and Price Responses in the Ontario Electricity Market

Melino, Angelo; Peerbocus, Nash

Abstract

Export responses to unanticipated price shocks can be a key contributing factor to the rapid mean reversion of electricity prices, a phenomenon often seen in electricity markets. In this paper, we use event analysis to demonstrate how hourly export transactions respond to negative supply shocks in the Ontario electricity market. Although event analysis has been used for many years in other applications, particularly finance, to our knowledge this is the first time that this technique has been applied to price response analysis in the electricity market. The analysis clearly demonstrates the sensitivity of export volume to price changes, and more generally, the responses of prices and quantities to an unexpected supply shock.

Citation

Melino, A., & Peerbocus, N. (2008). High Frequency Export and Price Responses in the Ontario Electricity Market. Energy Journal, 29(4), 35-51. https://doi.org/10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol29-No4-2

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Oct 1, 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Deposit Date: Dec 2, 2024
• Print ISSN: 0195-6574
• Electronic ISSN: 1944-9089
• Publisher: International Association for Energy Economics
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 35-51
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol29-No4-2
• Keywords: Control ; Demand functions (Economic theory) ; Economics ; Electric utilities ; Electricity ; Energy consumption ; Exports ; Imports ; Managerial economics ; Social sciences ; Supply and demand ; Technology