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ID094890
Title ProperRisk assessment of new pricing strategies in the district heating market
Other Title Informationa case study at Sundsvall energi AB
LanguageENG
AuthorBjorkqvist, Olof ;  Idefeldt, Jim ;  Larsson, Aron
Publication2010.
Summary / Abstract (Note)The price structure of district heating has been no major scientific issue for the last decades in energy-related research. However, today trends in district heating pricing tend to move towards a more customer-oriented approach with predetermined prices under a longer periods, leading to a more complex price structure. If a district heating supplier offers district heating with predetermined prices in order to compete with similar electricity offers, the financial risk of the new price structure is significantly higher than the risk of an ordinary variable cost offer based on short-run marginal cost. In contrary to an electricity seller, the district heating company cannot transfer all of the risk of predetermined prices to the financial market, instead the company is thrown upon its own ability to handle the risk by, e.g., hedging its own energy purchase. However, all uncertainties cannot be coped with in this manner. Thus, there is a need for a methodology that can be used to estimate the financial risk of different price structures and to value different opportunities to reduce the risk. In this article, we propose a methodology, implemented in prototype software, to evaluate the risk associated with new price structures in district heating.
`In' analytical NoteEnergy Policy Vol. 38, No. 5; May 2010: p.2171-2178
Journal SourceEnergy Policy Vol. 38, No. 5; May 2010: p.2171-2178
Key WordsDistrict Heating ;  Risk Assment ;  Pricing