Aside from Black-Scholes with crazy skews, what major models are used for energy derivatives? I'm thinking particularly of electricity derivatives, but I'm also interested in natural gas and other volatile contracts(*).
(*): pun intended
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That's a complicated question. There are many paths.
One path is to build a model of the underlying supply/demand relationships. For example, the sudden loss of a power supplier (or transmision corridor) shifts the supply curve to the left spiking the price. The key to the game is data, data, and more data (price, weather/wind, season, power loads, current power generation, stand-by generation, transmission line overload, etc).
There are several books written on the subject. If you dig around, you'll find everything from over-simplified books, to books that over-kill on a specific area of the business. Just a quick Google gives:
http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Energy-Price-Risk-Challenges/dp/1904339190
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Todays-Electricity-Business-Shively/dp/0974174416
My reputation level is too low to post more links.
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$\begingroup$ do you have any good sources for an introduction to supply/demand modelling in commodities? $\endgroup$– TrajanCommented Dec 1, 2018 at 15:04
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1$\begingroup$ @Permian, Here's a link to a simple electrical demand model using monthly data: revgr.com/2012/11/06/… Here's the Youtube video for that article: youtube.com/watch?v=LzxOjdix614&t=81s You'll have to do some digging for a supply model. $\endgroup$– bill_080Commented Dec 1, 2018 at 18:38
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This guy listed a list of key papers relative to commodities price modeling. That could perhaps help you get started.
