Selecting portfolios of electricity production assets, energy sources and market participation strategies facilitates usage and management of complementary resources. It helps also power producers to address uncertainties and to balance profit contributions, costs and risks. Therefore, portfolios sh...

Traditionally, electricity markets have been designed with the intention of disabling producer side market power or prohibiting exercising it. Nonetheless it can be assumed that players participating in pool markets and aiming to maximize their individual benefits might depart from the optimum in te...

Maintenance scheduling is an important and complex task in hydropower systems. In a liberalized market, the generation company will schedule maintenance periods to maximize the expected profit. This paper describes a method for hydropower maintenance scheduling suitable for a profit maximizing, pric...

We study a hydropower producer’s potential for value-creation from multi-market trading given the price variations in the markets and the flexibility provided through access to hydro reservoirs. We use a perfect foresight optimization model for a price-taking hydropower producer co-optimizing his tr...