1 / 28

Power exchange for electricity Opportunities or constraints?

Power exchange for electricity Opportunities or constraints?. Practical experiences with spot and intra-day trading linked to the Nord Pool markets. purpose and opportunities Conny Arnfeldt Mälarenergi AB. Agenda. Company presentation

harris
Download Presentation

Power exchange for electricity Opportunities or constraints?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Power exchange for electricityOpportunities or constraints? Practical experiences with spot and intra-day trading linked to the Nord Pool markets. purpose and opportunities Conny Arnfeldt Mälarenergi AB

  2. Agenda • Company presentation • How do we work with production planning and what systems do we use • Physical contracts with spot and ELBAS trading • Financial contracts and how to use it for securing production prices • Questions

  3. Company presentation

  4. Quick facts • Mälarenergi is a public owned company • We are approx. 544 staff • In 2007 our turnover was over 250 M€ • We have the largest cogeneration plant in Sweden • Our district heating network is one of the biggest in Sweden • We had the first district cooling network in Sweden

  5. What do we provide to our customers • District heating • Electric power • Water and sewage • Services (internal and external) • Electricity distribution (local grid) • Urban data communication Network (fiber based)

  6. Production numbers • Electricity production- cogeneration 1 000 GWh- hydro power 200 GWh (41 stations) • Electricity distribution (grid) 1 940 GWh • Electricity trading 3 000 GWh • District heating 1 700 GWh • District cooling 17 GWh • Domestic water 10 Mm3

  7. Production planning

  8. How do we work with production planning? • Our base load electric production is based on our district heating load. And that load varies with:- climate- social patterns- industrial customers • We also have the possibility to run our production in partial or full condensing mode. (cooling with seawater)

  9. What tools do we use for production planning? • Production planning (excel based tool) • Nestor (heat load prediction) • Pomax (database and communication system) • Aiolos (electric load prediction)

  10. How does it work?

  11. Weather forecast (SMHI)

  12. Nestor – heat load prediction

  13. Pomax – production plan

  14. Pomax – electric consumption

  15. Pomax – balance planning

  16. Physical contracts with spot and ELBAS trading

  17. Physical contracts with Nordpool spot • Our base load production is made as a single bid on NP spot for the next day. • And the condensing production is made as block bid on NP spot.

  18. Example on single and block bid

  19. BUT THE WORLD IS NOT PERFECT!Deviations from plan will happen

  20. What type of deviations is common for us? • Failure on production plant • Change in weather or error in weather forecast • Errors in consumption forecast • Depending on the sign of the deviation we then have to buy or sell to get into balance again

  21. District heating balancing

  22. How to solve deviations from plan during intra-day? • We must stay in balance with the plan we sent to our TSO the day before. • To solve the deviation, we have some options:- Regulate it internally- ELBAS trading- Bilateral trading with other companies- Run with imbalance (not an option!)

  23. ELBAS trading

  24. But ELBAS is not only used for deviations • If prices on ELBAS is lower than our own production cost then its better to buy than to produce it our self. • And if prices on ELBAS is higher than our cost for condense mode production or more expensive production plants then its better to sell more.

  25. Why do we prefer to use ELBAS? • It gives us a secure and anonymous way to trade with many counterparts if needed which gives us:- lower cost to find counterpart- a fast way to get into balance again- economical and structural safety- less dependency on the few big companies • It contributes to an optimal usage of our own and others production facilities. • Because the coupling between cost and environment load is strong, lower cost -> lower environment load

  26. Financial contracts and how to use it for securing production prices

  27. Financial contracts • Financial products are handled by the trading department at Mälarenergi • And we use our trading department to secure production prices to some extent. • We also secure CO2, fuel prices and currency with financial contracts.

  28. Questions? conny.arnfeldt@malarenergi.se Phone +46-21-395354

More Related