Nordic electricity congestion's arrangement as a model for Europe : physical constraints or operators' opportunism?

Congestion on power grids seems a physical reality, a "hard" fact easy to check. Our paper models a different idea: congestion signal may be distorted by transmission system operators (TSOs), which puts the European integrated electricity market at risk. 1ʻ when the TSOs share the revenue...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Glachant, Jean-Michel, Pignon, Virginie
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.
Format: Working Paper
Published: MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44987