This paper analyses the future organization of cross border trade in the European electricity market. The draft Regulation ``on Conditions for Access to the Network for Cross-Border Exchanges in Electricity'' issued in March 2001 by the European Commission together with related documents...

Different equilibrium concepts have been proposed by various authors (Schweppe et al, Hogan, Chao and Peck, Wu et al) to analyse competitive electricity systems. We establish correspondences between these different models though a single framework and provide additional interpretations of these...