USING WIND POWER TO HEDGE VOLATILE ELECTRICITY PRICES FOR COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CUSTOMERS IN NEW YORK

This study concludes that wind-generated electricity can provide important hedging benefits to New York's wholesale electricity markets, but that providing this benefit to individual C&I customers is more challenging. Because the barriers to using wind as a retail wind hedge can be significant, retail wind hedge tools may be most attractive to a limited segment of the C&I market. Nonetheless, this analysis suggests that wind can provide a good, if not perfect, hedge for many C&I customers.  

To read the NYSERDA Executive Summary on using wind power to hedge volatile electricity prices for commercial and industrial customers in New York, please click here.


To read the Complete Final Report, please click here.



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