Effectiveness of zonal congestion management in the European electricity market

Author

Imran, M. ; Bialek, J.W.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Energy Syst., Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

fYear

2008

fDate

1-3 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

12

Abstract

Currently congestion management schemes employed in Europe vary from border to border. Due to the complexity of the network all of the schemes use a zonal approach where the whole market is split into hypothetical zones corresponding to countries or regions. This paper has analyzed the effectiveness of the zonal congestion management scheme by using a model of the 1st synchronous electricity grid region. A number of different zoning methods have been discussed from an algorithmic point of view and their application to Europe presented and analyzed. The main conclusion is that zones cannot efficiently be used for congestion management in a tightly meshed interconnected system such as European one.

Keywords

power grids; power markets; power system interconnection; power system management; European electricity market; meshed interconnected power system; synchronous electricity grid region; zonal congestion management scheme; Conference management; Electricity supply industry; Energy management; Europe; Power system interconnection; Power system management; Power system modeling; Power system simulation; Power transmission lines; Voltage; Interconnected power systems; congestion management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Conference, 2008. PECon 2008. IEEE 2nd International

Conference_Location

Johor Bahru

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2404-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2405-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PECON.2008.4762432

Filename

4762432