Türkiye elektrik piyasasında etkin ticaret yönetimi: Finansal opsiyonlar yöntemi

Today with the support of deregulations, a liberal market structure has emerged the energy markets. At the same time, new liberal market structures possess many uncertainties and risk factors. It became very difficult to adapt to changing dynamics and to maintain profitability by keeping the risk under control. Continuously changing factors such as technological development, ever-growing demand for energy consumption, meteorological realizations, and state politics are creating an uncertain environment. Internal and external risk factors are triggering many unexpected outcomes. To survive in this fluctuating environment, risk strategies should be established and continuously developed. In this thesis for a better financial performance in Turkish electricity sector a new approach is presented. A fundamental electricity price forecast model is presented and to boost trading efficiency financial options are studied. In the forecast section, regression, deterministic approach and production cost based models are studied. For option pricing Black-Scholes and Cox-Ross-Rubinstein models are preferred. Derivative instruments' comparative performance evaluation is investigated and it is seen that forward products caused the highest profit and loss, on the other it is found that financial options are useful instruments to hedge financial risks.