The Flow of Money

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Overview of electricity markets: legacy day‑ahead and real‑time pools are built for slow, centralized generation and now break under high renewables, causing extreme spikes (ERCOT hit ~$3,000/hr in 2001 and generators earned ~$0.5B) and negative prices. Proposals include risk-limiting dispatch (multistage markets using forecasts), treating demand response as virtual batteries procured via convex programs, rethinking products (deadline/duration‑differentiated energy), and using storage (currently ~$300/kWh, California 1.3 GW mandate) with system‑level multi‑period optimization.

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1. 0:00History of electricity
2. 4:18Deregulated market models
3. 8:09Operations and mechanisms
4. 15:04Pools and trading
5. 21:49Network constraints and LMP
6. 30:53Market efficiency and tariffs
7. 35:06Impact of renewables
8. 40:04Renewables integration
9. 46:15Innovative market products
10. 53:51Storage and DR
11. 1:07:14Capacity markets and risk
12. 1:14:31Future grid architecture