A Spatial Electricity Market Model for the Power System of Kazakhstan

Makpal Assembayeva, Jonas Egerer, Roman Mendelevitch () and Nurkhat Zhakiyev

No 1659, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: Kazakhstan envisions a transition towards a green economy in the next decades which poses an immense challenge as the country heavily depends on (hydro-)carbon resources, for both its economy and its energy system. In this context, there is a lack of comprehensive and transparent planning tools to assess possible sustainable development pathways in regard to their technical, economic, and environmental implications. We present such a tool with a comprehensive techno-economic model of the Kazakh electricity system which determines the hourly least-cost generation dispatch based on publicly available data on the technical and economic characteristics of power plants and the transmission infrastructure. This modeling framework accounts for the particularities of the Kazakh electricity system: i) it has a detailed representation of combined heat and power, and ii) line losses are endogenously determined using a linear approximation. Model results are examined for a typical winter week (with annual peak load) and a typical summer week (with the hour of lowest annual load) presenting regionally and temporally disaggregated results for power generation, line utilization, and nodal prices. In an application to market design, the paper compares nodal and zonal pricing as two possible pricing schemes in Kazakhstan for the envisioned strengthening of the day-ahead market. In general, the model can be readily used to analyze the least-cost dispatch of the current Kazakh electricity system and can be easily expanded to assess the sector's development. Among others, possible applications include investment in transmission lines and in the aging power plant fleet, scenarios and policy assessment for emission reduction, and questions of market liberalization and market design.

Keywords: Kazakhstan; Central Asia, Electricity sector, Techno-economic modeling, Transmission network, ELMOD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 D47 Q41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 p.
Date: 2017
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