There is no general consensus on the most suitable method for allocating the cost of a transmission network among its users. Most regulators are using some measure of network utilization as the basic criterion for transmission tariff design, being marginal participations (areas of influence) and...

This book responds to the opening up of electricity markets to competition, which has completely changed the nature of power generation. The building of new generation and transmission capacity and the setting of the energy mix between nuclear, gas and renewable resources are mainly left to...