How do demand response and electrical energy storage affect (the need for) a capacity market?

DR and EES may significantly reduce the risk of shortages in an energy-only market, even if investment decisions are myopic, like in our model, as compared to an energy-only market without flexibility options. We also present a novel mechanism for contribution of EES to the CM. This reduces the cost of the CM and improves the business case for EES. In our model, DR and EES achieve almost the same improvement of security of supply as a CM, but they do so at a lower cost. Therefore, the case for a centralized CM is weakened in a system with even a limited share of DR and medium-term EES, as presented in our model. These results depend on the duration of scarcity events and the cost of EES and DR. Refinement of the model representation will be required to extrapolate these conclusions to real markets with other types of DR, EES and CMs.