Security constrained optimal bidding strategy of GenCos in day ahead oligopolistic power markets: a Cournot-based model

Restructured electricity markets may provide opportunities for producers to exercise market power, maintaining prices in excess of competitive levels. In this paper a Cournot equilibrium model is proposed to obtain generation companies’ (GenCos’) optimal bidding strategies in a day ahead oligopoly market, considering elasticity of demand, market power and transmission security constraints. In order to consider network constraints, a multiperiod auction framework is addressed to simulate market clearing mechanism by means of social welfare maximization, in which the behaviors of market participants are modeled through piecewise block curves. Impact of transmission security constraints on participants’ market power is presented. A mixed integer linear programming is employed to solve the problem, resulting supply-demand satisfaction as well as market clearing prices at each hour. A novel methodology is presented for security constrained optimal bidding strategy of GenCos through introducing heuristic effective-supply curves. Subsequently, impact of GenCos’ power exertion on market characteristics and corresponding payoffs is studied. A 9-bus IEEE test system is used to implement the proposed methodology while simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework.

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