Management in Electricity Supply

Competition in Retail Electricity Supply

Secure and Efficient Electricity Supply

Electricity supply and hydropower development in Switzerland

Introduction According to the Swiss Energy Strategy 2050, which takes into account the phase out of the existing nuclear power plants, the mean annual hydropower production must be increased by 1.5 TWh/a under present framework conditions, eventually reaching 3.2 TWh/a if conditions are optimized (SFOE, 2016). In view of environmental and socio-economic constraints, this foreseen increase is ex...

Security of Electricity Supply in Scotland

 Security of Supply: to identify the transmission capacity from England to Scotland needed to secure the Scottish demand over a range of credible generation scenarios, both pre and post commissioning of Western HVDC Link, Beauly-Denny and other transmission reinforcements.  System Operability: to identify the level of reactive compensation investment required within Scotland to ensure that th...

Supply Function Prediction in Electricity Auctions

In the fast growing literature that addresses the problem of the optimal bidding behaviour of power generation companies that sell energy in electricity auctions, it is always assumed that every firm knows the aggregate supply function of its competitors. Since this information is generally not available, real data have to be substituted by predictions. In this paper we propose two alternative ...