Revenue opportunities Swiss hydropower
What are the revenue opportunities for different hydropower plants in Switzerland? What role do the various sales options such as spot, futures, ancillary services, capacity and proof-of-origin markets play?
Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE)
Project period2023
Related expertiseRegulation, Energy, Environmental Economics, Data Science
TeamUrs Trinkner, Nicolas Eschenbaum, Nicolas Greber, Alexander Fuchs, Turhan Demiray
ContactProject description
Swiss Economics is supporting the SFOE together with the FEN of ETH Zurich in the implementation of the sliding market premium. Specifically, the SFOE must have an exact idea of which types of hydropower plants have how much revenue potential over the course of the year. To this end, we first quantify the potential in spot, forward, capacity, ancillary services and proof-of-origin markets as precisely as possible in order to derive heuristics that are as easy to operationalise as possible in a second step.
Methods
- Literature analysis
- Calculation of revenue opportunities within one year on the various markets
- Derivation of heuristics
- Tool creation
- Stakeholder workshops
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