Integrating balancing markets across borders bears a cost-reducing potential but requires the availability of transmission capacity for the eventual activation of committed reserves. Using scarce transmission capacity for ...

European balancing markets are presently fragmented and mostly national. Integrating them on common platforms requires the ability to identify optimal balancing energy volumes to be activated and exchanged to cover imbalances ...

Maintaining a continuous balance between generation and load is crucial for the safeguarding of the power systems. In order to effectively deal with the various uncertainties that contribute to the real-time imbalance in ...

Abstract—In countries with Capacity Mechanisms in place, where Explicit Interconnector Participation model is to be used,one of the key market design questions to be answered is how the amount of interconnector capacity ...

The LinkS project was designed to analyse how global long-term strategies can be used as guidelines for the development of energy supply and technology deployment in regional energy systems. In order to produce recommendations ...

Pumped hydropower storage can smooth output from intermittent renewable electricity generators and facilitate their large-scale use in energy systems. Germany has aggressive plans for wind power expansion, and pumped storage ...

As a part of the integration of European balancing markets, new products and platforms will improve the possibilities for Transmission System Operators (TSOs) for exchange of balancing energy and netting of imbalances ...

The Norwegian regulator has proposed a new grid tariff, based on capacity subscription, where the consumer pays an excess fee whenever he exceeds the subscribed level. We compare this tariff with a variant of capacity ...