Power generation and transmission are complementary activities that must be coordinated to ensure an optimal use and development of the transmission network. This coordination is today more difficult in a liberalized system, because of unbundling and the freedom for investors to choose their...

The introduction of competition into the electricity industry, organized a long time around a vertical integrated monopoly reveals problems of coordination which it is possible to treat by the appropriate combination of economic tools. The stake in terms of coordination of the electricity...

From 1998 to 2005, the German transmission grid has been put under a self-regulated arrangement. It seems hard to believe that transmission lines can be opened to "third-party access" only with a "negotiated access regime" and no regulator supervision. It seems contradictory with the notion of...