The absence of one broadly accepted design template for liberalised electricity markets induces regulatory competition … accelerate or impede the move to one standard market design in the electricity sector. It reveals that market design convergence …

energy supply security and critical line flows in both the German and Central European electricity networks. The technical …-economic model of the European electricity market, ELMOD, is used to simulate alternative power plant dispatch, imports, exports, and … higher net imports, especially from the Netherlands, Austria, and Poland, and that electricity generation from fossil fuels …

access regime in the electricity and gas sectors. We find strong similarities for two otherwise very different sectors, as … well as an influence of the electricity regime on the gas regime. The sector-specific regulatory regime, supported by the … use of competition law, organises a market design in both sectors based as much as possible on short-term capacity …

is the completion of the single market for electricity. The process has been ongoing since the early 1990s and major … progress has been made. However, we are still far from a borderless and truly competitive electricity market across Europe. A … Package is not adapted to the challenges the European Union faces in electricity. The current lack of focus on implementing a …

rooted in the competition facing both electricity retailers and large industrial firms. Additional problems include those of …Decentralised electricity systems require effective price and quantity risk management mechanisms, but the nature of … that market contracting in electricity systems is a costly approach to addressing hold-up and related problems, and that …

This paper discusses the difficulty of having three different objectives for the electricity supply sectors in the EU …

in electricity spot markets, unless it is adapted to take account of contracting. In its place the Residual Supply Index … has been proposed as a more suitable index to measure potential market power in electricity markets, notably in California … prices in an electricity market with contracts and capacity constraints and find that it is most useful for the case of a …

Smart metering is a crucial factor for the efficient functioning of the Internal Electricity Market, as well as for the …

overview of the national but also reforms at regional level in the electricity systems in SEE, but also to underline the open …, to provide a detailed comparative analysis of the electricity systems in all nine countries from SEE, neither to study …