Constructing Electricity Market Models

Abstract

This working paper presents a comprehensive study on the development and analysis of various electricity market models, focusing on continuous, discrete, and fractional-order approaches. The continuous model captures the ongoing interactions between power producers and consumers using differential equations, providing insights into long-term trends and steady-state behaviors. The discrete model, suitable for analyzing scenarios where market events occur at specific time intervals, incorporates memory effects to account for historical behaviors and decisions, offering a realistic representation of short-term market dynamics. The fractional-order model introduces fractional calculus to capture memory effects and hereditary properties, enhancing the model's realism and predictive capability by reflecting the influence of past states on current market behavior.