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In two-settlement electricity markets, financial transactions that allow participants to hedge against the risk that real-time and day-ahead prices will differ, or to speculate on the difference.
- Browse Related Terms: Basis, Daily Deals, Day-ahead markets, Floating Storage, National balancing point (NBP), Real-time market, Single settlement system, Spot market, Two-settlement system, Virtual bidding, Zeebrugge
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A trading intermediary matching buyers and sellers using traditional telephone confirmation.
- Browse Related Terms: Bid-ask differential, or spread, Broker, Imbalance energy, Market liquidity, Market participant, Voice broker
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A measure of price fluctuations (for example, of a commodity) over a certain period of time.
- Browse Related Terms: Active traders, Exchange, Hedging, Hirschman-Herfindahl Index (HHI) Market share analysis, Hub, Market capitalization, Market concentration, Market power, Price/Earnings Ratio (P/E Ratio), Transparency, Volatility, Zonal price
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Any intentional reduction of system voltage by 3 percent or greater for reasons of maintaining the continuity of service of the bulk electric power supply system.
- Browse Related Terms: Ancillary services, Automatic generation control, availability, Baseload Unit, Capacity factor, Control area, Financial liquidity, Fuel-adjustment clause, Installed capacity, Load pocket, Mothballed capacity, Peaking capacity, Plant factor, Ramp rate, Reliability must run (RMR), Retail unbundling, Voltage reduction, Wholesale electricity markets
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The effect on revenue of fluctuations in demand for a product or service.
- Browse Related Terms: Demand elasticity, Demand responsiveness/demand response, Load control, Load shedding, On-Peak, Pivotal supplier, Reserve margin, Rolling blackouts, Volumetric risk