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Design of Auction, Safety Valve and Revenue Recycling
within the Energy Performance Commitment (EPC)
Environmental Resources Management Ltd
& Market Design Inc
26 January 2007
Presentation Overview
• Project objectives
• Interim findings for each EPC design aspect:
• revenue recycling options
• auction design
• integrated analysis (including safety valve)
• Next steps
Project Key Objectives
• Many key EPC policy and design decisions have been taken
− Fixed price introductory phase (sales), cap-and-trade fixed volume phases (auctions)
− Use of “safety-valve”; preference for “buy-only” link to ETS
− Revenue recycling to participants on basis of emissions and/or energy management performance
• Design details have not yet been determined
• how does EPC incentivise ‘good practice’ amongst participants?
• Overall objective is therefore: to provide guidance on the auction, ‘safety-valve’ and revenue recycling aspects of the proposed Energy Performance Commitment (EPC).
3 Aspects Linked – Impact Effectiveness
Task 1:
Design of auction method
Task 2:
Design of revenue recycling
Task 3:
Design of “safety-valve”
Task 4:
Final Scheme Proposal
Integrated analysis
Revenue recycling
Revenue recycling
Assessment of alternative options and proposed formulae
• Option 1 (RR1): Auction revenues returned to participants in proportion to average annual emissions
• Option 2 (RR2): Performance ‘banding’ based on emissions reduction performance (allows % reward/penalty)
• Option 3 (RR3): Performance ‘banding’ based on emissions reduction performance and other criteria e.g. use of HH metering
Key criteria include: effectiveness, fairness and simplicity, minimising cost/admin burden to Gov and participants, rewarding early action/incentivising the installation of AMR
Revenue recycling
We model revenue recycling for x participants over 5 years
• Basic recycling option design details - no. of bands, band allocation, rate of reward/penalty
• Number and size distribution of participants
• Changes in emissions/behaviour across period
Key variables:
Key outputs:
• Determine net winners/losers and extent of wealth transfer
• Identify perverse incentives/’unfair’ outcomes
• Identify optimal option according to key policy criteria
Revenue recycling
• Different options result in different winners/losers
• Simple payment proportional to emissions - insufficient incentive to reduce emissions (mixed signals)
• Performance banding option - “league table”
− creates incentive to reduce emissions − i.e. reinforces the signals of cap and trade
− equal number of participants in each band creates incentive discontinuity (i.e. 1st place rewarded same as 500th place)
− equal number of participants in each band also requires corrective factor to % reward/penalty
− equal number of emissions in each band may be an alternative option, although outcomes are then highly dependent on participant size distribution
Revenue recycling
• Use of continuous performance banding− alternative is to have continual linear incentive, i.e. x bands for x
participants; simple, fair and no discontinuities− Participants could still be reported in ‘performance bands’
• Increasing the % performance factor does the following:− reduces auction price due to additional incentive to abate along
MACC− shifts money from those with higher abatement costs to those
with lower abatement costs. − shifts money from growing businesses to declining businesses
Revenue recycling
• Multi-criteria recycling option
− Participant administrative simplicity maintained (e.g. small increase in reporting requirement only, payments still simple)
− encourages uptake of auto metering and may encourage early action
− however, non-transparent in outcomes and adds complexity to optimal bidding and abatement strategy
− winners and losers will depend on MAC of HH metering and existing availability of the option for each participant
Revenue recycling
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-£5
£0
£5
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RR1: proportion to average annual emissions
RR2: emissions reduction performance
Revenue recycling
Key
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√√ meets criteria well
√ meets criteria
X does not meet criteria
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RR2a √√ √√ √√ √√ X √√
RR2b √√ √√ √√ √√ X √
RR2c √√ √√ √√ √√√ √ √√√
RR3 √√ √√ √ √√√ √√ √√
Key policy criteriaR
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RR1: proportion to average annual emissions
RR2: emissions reduction performance
RR3: RR2 + other criteria
Auction design
Auction design
Key attributes of emissions allowances:
• Product is a homogenous, divisible good
• Product is actively traded in secondary market
• Market is un-concentrated
• Downward sloping demand curves
Impact of revenue recycling (1)
• Reduces the burden of the scheme on participants but complicates bidding incentives
• Bidder’s quantity choice impacts its revenue share in complex way
• Performance factor: % bonus or penalty based on relative performance
• Increasing performance factor
• Reduces auction price
• Shifts money to those with lower abatement costs
• Causes some shift of money from growing businesses to declining businesses
Impact of revenue recycling (2)
• Scheduling of payments is important consideration
− Auction at start of year 1 + 6 month reconciliation with payments in mid year 2 = 18 months without cash
− However, it is desirable that some time pass between auction and recycled payment
− Solution 1: defer participant payment till start of year 2
− Solution 2: participants make net payments only: “settle-up”
− Solution 3: auction in mid-year or multiple auctions
• Solution 1 recommended: achieves simplicity whilst preserving the strong signal/financial decision associated with payment
Auction design
Leading auction candidates:
• One static (one round of bidding)
• One dynamic (multiple rounds of bidding)
Uniform price auction
Price
Quantity
Supply
Demand(as bid)
Q0
P0clearing price
Ascending clock with proxy bids
Priceclock
Quantity
Supply
Demand
Q0
P0
Excessdemand
Price
Auction designProxy bids:
Other features:
• Internet auction
• Demand schedules (step function)
• Proportionate rationing
• Report excess demand and distribution of % reductions− can estimate revenue recycling impact
• Bidders can participate as in a static auction
• or can bid dynamically
• Recommendation: clock auction with proxy bids, so bidders can better estimate marginal incentive to abate
Integrated analysis
Integrated Analysis
• Auction Design, Revenue Recycling and the Safety Valve all impact on each other
• Tasks 1-3 therefore being conducted as a whole using Case Study modelling
• Case Studies aim to predict potential outcomes of design options
1. identification of the incentives to change behaviour- investing in abatement, participating in sales/auction- auctions must be understandable to participants
› i.e. participants must be able to form an initial strategy and optimise their position within scheme
2. sense checking- are there perverse incentives or unintended
consequences? - e.g. too much/too little abatement capacity- how do abatement costs and auction prices interact?
Case Study Fundamentals
• Uses marginal incentives• marginal costs modified by recycling payments
• Informed by real data (NERA/Enviros etc)
• Uses scenarios (recycle design, participants, ceilings, etc)
• Outcomes include auction prices, wealth transfer, etc.
• Case Studies developed by ERM in Microsoft Excel, with VB coding
• Models hypothetical cases rather than the system as a whole• Aim is to analyse the effects of design details
• Very flexible: multi-year, assumptions re: MAC curves, behavioural aspects, etc.
• Model largely operational but needs testing
Key Outstanding Questions (1)
• Recycling Formulae
• Multi-Criteria League Tables
• Distribution of Sizes of Participants
• Distribution of Emissions Projections of Participants
• Baseline Alternatives
• Average emissions since start of scheme, Phase 1 period only, rolling x-year average, etc.
• Payment Scheduling
• Safety Valve
• Buying-in (of alternative allowances)
Key Outstanding Questions (2)
• Public/Private Sector split
• Ensures that public sector is not a net loser
• Technically possible- 2 revenue pots- Both revenue neutral
• Likely to reduce market efficiency
• Ensures that there will definitely be public sector losers
• Level of participation in abatement/auctions
• Achievability of caps
• Participant behaviour
Participant Behaviour
• Perfect Solution
• optimal system solution, perfect rationality and information
• Companies act independently of recycling rules
• Risk aversion
• Over-abate
• Others?
Next Steps
• Draft Final Report due week commencing Feb 5
• Major addition will be Case Study results/conclusions
• Will include final design recommendations
• Final Report due week commencing Feb 19
• Meetings scheduled after each Report delivered