Sähkömarkkinoiden osittainen avautuminen kilpailulle on merkinnyt alan toimintaympäristön perusteellista muutosta. Muutos Euroopassa alkoi 1990-luvun alussa kun Englanti ja Norja vapauttivat sähkön myynnin ja tuotannon kilpailulle. EU:n sisällä sähkömarkkinoiden uudistusta ohjaa...

The dynamics of hourly electricity prices in day-ahead markets is an important element of competitive power markets that were only established in the last decade. In electricity markets, the market microstructure does not allow for continuous trading, since operators require advance notice in...

This paper analyzes the convergence process of Central-West European wholesale electricity markets from 2004 to the beginning of 2011. Jevon's law of price indifference is scrutinized using price correlation, parametric and nonparametric tests of price-differences and cointegration analysis. As...

Long-term energy contracts have featured prominently in many decisions of the European Commission to support the opening of the electricity markets. Contracts were seen to foreclose the market hence the Commission comprehensively unwound pre-existing long-term contracts and formulated strict...

This paper provides a description of ELMOD, a model of the European electricity market including both generation and the physical transmission network (DC Load Flow approach). The model was developed at the Chair of Energy Economics and Public Sector Management (EE2) at Dresden University of...