Journal
ENERGY POLICY
Volume 77, Issue -, Pages 79-88Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2014.11.038
Keywords
Renewables; Electricity price; Merit-order effect; Feed-in tariff; Italian wholesale power market
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Italy promoted one of the most generous renewable support schemes worldwide which resulted in a high increase of solar power generation. We analyze the Italian day-ahead wholesale electricity market, finding empirical evidence of the merit-order effect. Over the period 2005-2013 an increase of 1 GWh in the hourly average of daily production from solar and wind sources has, on average, reduced wholesale electricity prices by respectively 23(sic)/MWh and 4.2(sic)/MWh and has amplified their volatility. The impact on prices has decreased over time in correspondence with the increase in solar and wind electricity production. We estimate that, over the period 2009-2013, solar production has generated higher monetary savings than wind production, mainly because the former is more prominent than the latter. However, in the solar case, monetary savings are not sufficient to compensate the cost of the related supporting schemes which are entirely internalized within end-user tariffs, causing a reduction of the consumer surplus, while the opposite occurs in the case of wind. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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