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 … slightly different results in practice. In electricity, the development of market coupling initiatives creates new regulatory …

Climate change and security of supply policies are driving us towards a decarbonization of the electricity system. It … is in this context that smart grids are being discussed. Electricity grids, and hence their regulatory frameworks, have a … key role to play in facilitating this transformation of the electricity system. In this paper, we analyze what is expected …

of disarray. Some regions have adopted a fully liberalized electricity sector model, others have retained the traditional … electricity efficiently, (b) to confront retail consumers with the appropriate prices to encourage efficient utilization of … electricity, (c) to meet greenhouse gas mitigation goals efficiently, and (d) to support efforts to increase energy security and …

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