power_prices: Prices of electricity and natural gas

Description Usage Format Variables Source

Description

A dataset containing a time series of prices of natural gas at Algonquin citygate and prices of electricity at the Boston NEPOOL delivery point traded on ICE (Intercontinental Exchange) from the U.S. Department of Energy EIA https://www.eia.gov/electricity/wholesale/#history for days traded from 2015-01-02 to 2017-12-28.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 1212 observations of 8 variables

Variables

hub

Factor "algonquin" "nepool" ICE delivery points

date

yyyy-mm-dd from 2015-01-02 to 2017-12-28

price_high

num USD/MMBtu for algonquin and USD/MWh for nepool

price_low

num USD/MMBtu for algonquin and USD/MWh for nepool

price_average

num USD/MMBtu for algonquin and USD/MWh for nepool

volume

number of ICE contracts traded

trades

number of trades

counterparties

int number of bathrooms

Source

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/wholesale/#history


wgfoote/buandata documentation built on June 6, 2020, 12:25 a.m.