Abstract
Recent economic conjuncture has brought electricity and its liberalized markets to center stage again. Electricity, through its idiosyncrasies which were not in sight prior to liberalization, requires a particular market structure. Moreover, market designs may diverge. This paper addresses electricity market structure in view of the Turkish Market by focusing on electricity’s features and supply chain, and the spot markets where majority of trades take place. Turkish Market has taken significant distance in liberalization by broadly adopting Europe’s market structure in a prudent approach which extends over a considerable time. Day-Ahead Market, where pay-as-cleared pricing method applies, has been accepted by her participants and succeeded to convey short-term price signals. On the other hand, Intraday Market, which was introduced following the developed markets to serve supplemental balancing needs, has also reinforced the process. Nevertheless, as discussed in literature targets expected from liberalization have not been achieved yet and is likely to proceed sporadically with some “re-regulation” steps. In this respect, we highlight some dilemmas faced by the regulator, system/market operator.