Mit der wirtschaftlichen Transformation ändert sich die Struktur des Energieverbrauchs: Der Anteil der Industrie nimmt, trotz hoher Energieintensität, ab, der Anteil der Haushalte steigt. Der Gesamtenergieverbrauch sinkt und wird nicht vor dem Jahr 2000 das Niveau von 1990 erreichen. Die...

Electricity is an integral part of all modern economies, supporting a range of critical services from healthcare to banking to transportation. The secure supply of electricity is thus of paramount importance. The power sector is going through fundamental changes: decarbonisation with fast growth...

Electric power in OECD countries is mostly produced by large central generating stations, then transmitted along high voltage lines to local distribution systems that carry it to final consumers. Distributed generation plants are different. They produce power on an electricity consumer’s own...

Electricity market reform has fundamentally changed the environment for maintaining reliable and secure power supplies, creating a more integrated and dynamic network environment with new real-time challenges for reliable and secure transmission system operation. But despite these fundamental...