Valuation of power purchase agreements for corporate renewable energy procurement

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Názov: Valuation of power purchase agreements for corporate renewable energy procurement
Autori: Roozbeh Qorbanian, Nils Löhndorf, David Wozabal
Zdroj: European Journal of Operational Research. 326:530-543
Publication Status: Preprint
Informácie o vydavateľovi: Elsevier BV, 2025.
Rok vydania: 2025
Predmety: Electricity price model, FOS: Economics and business, General Economics (econ.GN), OR in energy, Power purchase agreement, Inverse optimization, 7. Clean energy, Statistical learning, Economics - General Economics
Popis: Corporate renewable power purchase agreements (PPAs) are long-term contracts that enable companies to source renewable energy without having to develop and operate their own capacities. Typically, producers and consumers agree on a fixed per-unit price at which power is purchased. The value of the PPA to the buyer depends on the so called capture price defined as the difference between this fixed price and the market value of the produced volume during the duration of the contract. To model the capture price, practitioners often use either fundamental or statistical approaches to model future market prices, which both have their inherent limitations. We propose a new approach that blends the logic of fundamental electricity market models with statistical learning techniques. In particular, we use regularized inverse optimization in a quadratic fundamental bottom-up model of the power market to estimate the marginal costs of different technologies as a parametric function of exogenous factors. We compare the out-of-sample performance in forecasting the capture price using market data from three European countries and demonstrate that our approach outperforms established statistical learning benchmarks. We then discuss the case of a photovoltaic plant in Spain to illustrate how to use the model to value a PPA from the buyer's perspective.
Druh dokumentu: Article
Jazyk: English
ISSN: 0377-2217
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2025.05.054
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2403.08846
Prístupová URL adresa: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08846
https://hdl.handle.net/1871.1/c8f4a24f-bbf6-4633-b576-1a44b94646de
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.05.054
https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/c8f4a24f-bbf6-4633-b576-1a44b94646de
Rights: Elsevier TDM
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Prístupové číslo: edsair.doi.dedup.....fdadcbb6f82f19b0618f6e16ae04013e
Databáza: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:Corporate renewable power purchase agreements (PPAs) are long-term contracts that enable companies to source renewable energy without having to develop and operate their own capacities. Typically, producers and consumers agree on a fixed per-unit price at which power is purchased. The value of the PPA to the buyer depends on the so called capture price defined as the difference between this fixed price and the market value of the produced volume during the duration of the contract. To model the capture price, practitioners often use either fundamental or statistical approaches to model future market prices, which both have their inherent limitations. We propose a new approach that blends the logic of fundamental electricity market models with statistical learning techniques. In particular, we use regularized inverse optimization in a quadratic fundamental bottom-up model of the power market to estimate the marginal costs of different technologies as a parametric function of exogenous factors. We compare the out-of-sample performance in forecasting the capture price using market data from three European countries and demonstrate that our approach outperforms established statistical learning benchmarks. We then discuss the case of a photovoltaic plant in Spain to illustrate how to use the model to value a PPA from the buyer's perspective.
ISSN:03772217
DOI:10.1016/j.ejor.2025.05.054