Following new legislation the Swedish electricity market is about to be deregulated. The new system is designed to … ensure competition in production and supply. The Swedish electricity market is characterised by a high degree of … firms on the supply side of the Swedish electricity market, deregulation is not a sufficient condition for equilibrium …

The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively evaluate the impact on electricity prices of deregulation and free trade … monopolistic pricing. The major tool for our analysis of electricity trade and prices is a numerical multicountry electricity … perfect competition equilibria with and without free trade in electricity can be simulated. According to the simulation …