In the competitive electricity markets, information
plays a major role; different distributions of information among the
market players may impact the market outcomes in terms of prices and
surpluses. In this paper we present a model based on the Independent
Private Value auction theory to analyze the strategic interaction
among producers in the electricity market and its outcomes in different
informative contexts. The model is based on a game theory application
in which we define a static and simultaneous game with incomplete
and asymmetric information. The day-ahead electricity market is considered
as a multi-object auction in which each producer owns a multi-plant
firm and offers multiple couples of price-power quantities. The model
is used to study the market outcomes of different distributions of
information levels among the players in markets characterized by the
presence of a dominant producer. Numerical examples are provided with
reference to the Italian electricity market to illustrate some of
the salient market outcomes.