What is the market clearing price for market

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1 Costs

An electricity company estimates that its variable cost for producing electricity is given by the following ex- pression: C(q) = 25q2 + 2000q [$] where C is the total cost and q is the quantity produced (MWh)

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    Derive expressions for the revenue and the profit when the widgets are sold at marginal cost.

2 Welfare

There are two firms (producers) in the market and they are price takers.

Total Cost Function for firm 1: 0.65(Q1)2 + 22Q1 + 120
Total Cost Function for firm 2: 0.82(Q2)2 + 18Q2 + 160

Each firm has a minimum capacity of 0 but no maximum capacity.

The inverse demand curve for the market is: P = 475 - 0.6Q

  1. What is the inverse supply curve for the entire market? When calculating this curve, make sure you account for the minimum capacity of the firms. If the price is too low, firms produce nothing, not a negative quantity. (note that you may have a non-smooth curve). Draw it.
  2. What is the market clearing price for this market? What is the market quantity?
  3. Calculate the Consumer Surplus (CS), the Producer Surplus (PS), and the Social Welfare (SW).

3 Elasticity

Vertically integrated utilities often offer two-part tariffs to encourage their consumers to shift demand from on-peak load periods to off-peak periods. Consumption of electrical energy during on-peak and off-peak periods can be viewed as substitute products. The table below summarizes the results of experiments that the Southern Antarctica Power and Light Company has conducted with its two-part tariff. Use these results to estimate the elasticities and cross-elasticities of the demand for electrical energy during peak and off-peak periods.

 

On-peak price

 

Off-peak price

Average on-peak demand

Average off-peak demand

 

π1

π2

D1

D2

 

($/MWh)

($/MWh)

($/MWh)

($/MWh)

Base Case

0.08

0.06

1000

500

Experiment 1

0.08

0.05

992

509

Experiment 2

0.09

0.06

985

510

4 Supply Function Equilibria

The operator of a centralized market for electrical energy has received the bids shown in the table below for the supply of electrical energy during a given period.

Company

Amount (MWh)

Price ($/MWh)

Red

100

12.5

Red

100

14

Red

50

18

Blue

200

10.5

Blue

200

13

Blue

100

15

Green

50

13.5

Green

50

14.5

Green

50

15.5

1.     Build the supply curve

  1. Assume that this market operates unilaterally, that is, that the demand does not bid and is represented by a forecast. Calculate the market price, the quantity produced by each company and the revenue of each company for each of the following loads: 400 MW, 600 MW, 875 MW.
  2. Suppose that instead of being treated as constant, the load is represented by its inverse demand curve, which is assumed to have the following form:

D = L - 4.0π

where D is the demand, L is the forecasted load and π is the price. Calculate the effect that this price sensitivity of demand has on the market price and the quantity traded.

5 Strategic Behavior

Consider a market for electrical energy that is supplied by two generating companies whose cost functions are

CA  = 36PA$/h (1)

CB  = 31PB$/h (2)

The inverse demand curve for this market is estimated to be

π = 120 - D$/MWh (3)

a. Write the problem for the two generating companies

b. Solve the optimality conditions
c. Illustrate the pure strategy Nash Equilibrium for the two companies in a diagram (Reaction curves)

6 Scarcity Rents

Generator 1 has 140 MW capacity and its marginal cost is $80/MWh. Generator 2 has 220 MW capacity and its marginal cost is $130/MWh.
The inverse demand curve is: P = 465 - 0.7Q.

  1. Draw the supply curve and the inverse demand curve.
  2. At what price does supply = demand?
  3. Identify on the graph the Consumer Surplus (CS), the Producer Surplus (PS), and the Scarcity Rent (SR) (based on the second definition given in class on scarcity rent). What is the total scarcity rent?
  4. Some people argue that we should not allow for scarcity rents (a market clearing price that is higher than the largest supplier bid), that instead the price should never exceed the largest supplier bid. What do you think, should we allow scarcity rents? Explain.

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