The paper extends our previous analysis of market incompleteness to the case where there exist both a forward and real time market. The discussion is conducted with reference to a two-stage framework commonly used in stochastic programming and finance, but also familiar to the power industry....

Carbon leakage in this pape ris the phenomenon whereby Electricity Intensive Industries subject to harsh environmental standards move their activity or part of it to more environmentally lenient regions. Carbon leakage has been mentioned as a possible outcome of the EU Emission Trading Scheme....

Two markets co-exist in a unbundled electricity supply industry: the one of the electricity supply and the one of transmission capacity reservations. The first one could be assumed as an oligopoly, and the second one, as a natural monopoly, is regulated. The prices in the first market are...

Two markets co-exist in a unbundled electricity supply industry: the one of the electricity supply and the one of transmission capacity reservations. The first one could be assumed as an oligopoly, and the second one, as a natural monopoly, is regulated. The prices in the first market is...

An efficient congestion management system is a necessary condition to remove obstacles to the cross border trade of electricity in Europe and hence to move towards an internal electricity market. Locational marginal pricing (LMP) is progressively becoming the benchmark of congestion management...

We present a model of generation and network investment in a competitive electricity system. The model focuses on the duality of long-and short-term locational signals introduced in the European Regulation 1228/2003 for enhancing cross border trade of electricity among Member States. The model...

An oligopoly with spatially dispersed producers and consumers and with multi-period demands is modeled in the paper. Generation firms compete both in quantity and in quality for electricity supply. That is, they compete in generation capacity and electric energy supply as well as in reserved...

The paper analyses various proposals for the organization of regional electricity transmission in terms of the market incompleteness that they may implicitly assume. Elementary notions of variational inequalities constitute the analytical tool used throughout the paper. The discussion is...

The integration of national electricity systems into a single internal European electricity market is not progressing well with the result that the level of competition in the sector remains unsatisfactory. This had led to proposals to apply ex ante remedies that directly bear on the structure...