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Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Optimization for Long-Term Contract vs. Spot Allocation Decisions: Application to Electricity Markets

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  • Dimitri J. Papageorgiou

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There are numerous industrial settings in which a decision maker must decide whether to enter into long-term contracts to guarantee price (and hence cash flow) stability or to participate in more volatile spot markets. In this paper, we investigate a data-driven distributionally robust optimization (DRO) approach aimed at balancing this tradeoff. Unlike traditional risk-neutral stochastic optimization models that assume the underlying probability distribution generating the data is known, DRO models assume the distribution belongs to a family of possible distributions, thus providing a degree of immunization against unseen and potential worst-case outcomes. We compare and contrast the performance of a risk-neutral model, conditional value-at-risk formulation, and a Wasserstein distributionally robust model to demonstrate the potential benefits of a DRO approach for an ``elasticity-aware'' price-taking decision maker.

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  • Dimitri J. Papageorgiou, 2025. "Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Optimization for Long-Term Contract vs. Spot Allocation Decisions: Application to Electricity Markets," Papers 2501.15340, arXiv.org.
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