Journal of Energy Markets Research

In line with the restructuring of Iran's electricity industry, the issue of direct supply of electricity by power plants to final consumers was raised years ago. According to the platforms created by the Ministry of Energy, all industrial subscribers with a power of more than five megawatts can supply all or part of their energy needs through the energy exchange or concluding bilateral contracts with power plants. In this area, one of the main challenges faced by the electricity supplier is to offer the right price in terms of production costs and other sales opportunities. For this purpose, in this article, a model is proposed to determine the lower limits of the proposed price in the energy exchange or in the form of bilateral contracts. According to the analysis of the costs and sales opportunities faced by the electricity supplier, two quantities of the discounted average variable cost of the power plant and the discounted rate of the sales opportunity in the day market are introduced and modeled as the lower limits of the proposed price in this article. The results obtained from the implementation of the proposed model have well shown the importance of identifying and modeling the key elements considered to determine the lower limits of the proposed sale price in the energy exchange or bilateral sales, and also the analysis carried out in this article, the possibility of facilitating the decision ¬¬ It provides management levels.

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