Decomposition of Market Clearing Price in Electricity Markets

Abstract

This paper aims to develop a novel methodology to decompose MCP (market clearing price) in a single price auction market with AC transmission network. Specifically, we first formulate the auction market as a nonlinear optimization problem, and then propose an algorithm to decompose MCP into various factors, such as bidding curves, generations, transmission congestion, voltage limitations and other constraints. Several numerical simulations have been used to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.