Measuring reactive market power

Fernando L. Alvarado, Thomas Overbye

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Abstract

Market power refers to conditions where the providers of a service can consistently charge prices above those that would be established by a competitive market. There are many well known definitions of market power, including indices intended to quantify the degree of market concentration of energy supplies. This paper explores a method by which one of the standard indices in market power analysis (the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index) can be used to measure reactive power market concentration. The proposed method is illustrated by means of a simple example.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages294-296
Number of pages3
StatePublished - 1999
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1999 Winter Meeting of IEEE Power Engineering Society. Part 1 (of 2) - New York, NY, USA
Duration: Jan 31 1999Feb 4 1999

Other

OtherProceedings of the 1999 Winter Meeting of IEEE Power Engineering Society. Part 1 (of 2)
CityNew York, NY, USA
Period1/31/992/4/99

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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