Abstract:The construction of electricity spot market and carbon emission rights market has been continuously promoted, which brings new opportunities and challenges to the production and operation of thermal power plants. A bidding strategy and trading technology are proposed for thermal power plants in carbon and electricity market. Firstly, the carbon emission trading and management methods of thermal power units are analyzed, and the association and key influencing factors of carbon and electricity market are studied. Then, based on the output characteristic model and cost model of thermal power units, the price of carbon and electricity market is taken into account, and the unit bidding models in three modes are established respectively, that is, electricity market, electricity market with free allocation, electricity marker with paid allocation. And furthermore, the output optimization model and solution method aiming at maximizing the benefit of thermal power units are proposed. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by an example simulation.