Impacts of Emission Trading on Optimal Bidding Strategies of Generation Companies in Day-Ahead Electricity Markets

The impacts of Emission trading on building the optimal bidding strategy for a generation company participating in a day-ahead electricity market is investigated. The CO2 emission price in an emissions trading market is evaluated by using an optimization approach similar to the well-developed probabilistic production simulation method. Then upon the assumption that the probability distribution functions of rivals bidding are known, a stochastic optimization model for building the risk-constrained optimal bidding strategy for the generation company in the framework of the chance-constrained programming is presented. Finally, a numerical example is served for demonstrating the feasibility of the developed model and method, and the optimal bidding results are compared for the two situations with and without the CO2 emissions trading.