Measuring the impact of demand response services on electricity prices in Latvian electricity market

Improved end-user engagement is considered to be a key factor in decarbonization efforts towards climate neutral energy systems. While local implementations of implicit and explicit demand response solutions have been available to end consumers, energy consumption optimization is still in the stage of early adopters and no aggregator services have emerged. The new regulation allowing demand response to enter Day-ahead market is expected to have an impact on the electricity prices. The objective of this paper is to perform factor analysis on Latvian wholesale electricity market prices to determine the effect of the introduction of demand response in day ahead market might have on other market participants.