Congestion Management in Restructed Electricity Market
Congestion Management in Restructed Electricity Market
Congestion Management in Restructed Electricity Market
MARKET
SUBMITEDED BY-
ANURAG TYAGI
BRANCH-ELECTRICAL
(CORE)
ROLL NO-1705352
CONTENT
Power pool and financial bilateral market
Power pool and physical bilateral trading
Decentralized Market Structure
Introduction of congestion management
Capacity Allocation Method
Implication For Congestion Management and pricing
Allocation of congestion management through FTRS
Nodal pricing and generic market Structures
Zonal Pricing
Uniform Pricing
Explicit Auctioning
Flow based Market Coupling
Capacity Alleviation Method
Conclussion
INTRODUCTION
Transmission pricing and congestion management are distinct
elements of electricity market design. In contrast to solutions
configured to match the unique structural and historical features
of specific national markets this chapter aims at providing a
conceptual overview on congestion management methods
POWER POOL and Financial Bilateral Trading
The market structure where physical energy trade is
allowed only through a mandatory power pool:
No direct transactions between sellers and customers
are possible.
In a mandatory pool model no physical, bilateral
transaction are allowed beside the pool.
Power Pool and Physical Bilateral Trading
The market structure where generators and loads may
either settle into bilateral contracts or trade energy
through the pool
This structure is suggested by the US Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) as standard market
design (SMD). It is implemented in the Pennsylvania-
New Jersey-Maryland (PJM) Interconnection, in New
York and New England and scheduled for introduction
in California.
Decentralized Market Structures
The structures in sections and premised the
existence of a pool operator whose main objectives are
to make the pool market work and to ensure the
reliability of the transmission network by scheduling
network services
the ISO may still run hour-ahead and real-time spot
markets to keep the system in balance and relieve
congestion, day-ahead spot markets may be run by
different entities.
Introduction to Congestion Management
Capacity allocation methods aim at allocating transmission capacity mostly
before the physical delivery of the energy takes place. Capacity alleviations
methods are also referred to as remedial actions. When using these
methods, market parties are not directly notified of the existence of
congestion
Some following requirements are:
not discriminate: Each market participant - be it a consumer or a producer -
should be treated equally
be transparent: The implementation should be well defined and
transparent for all participants.
be feasible: The available resources (information, computer systems) need
to be capable
be feasible: The available resources (information, computer systems) need
to be capable
Capacity Allocation Methods
The general idea of nodal pricing is to 1) model an
electricity market with its various economical and
technical specifications, such as generators’ cost functions,
demand elasticity, generation limits (individual and
overall), power flow limits etc. and 2) optimize the system
which is synonymous to maximizing social welfare
Implications for Congestion Management
and Pricing
With no transmission constraints and losses neglected
there will be one “system lambda” resp.
NR = Sum Pi not equal Pij (ρi − ρj ) | Pij|
ρi price at node i
ρj price at node j
Pij power flow from node i to j
Allocation of Congestion Rent through FTRs
The use of financial transmission rights (FTRs) was
proposed by William Hogan of Harvard University.
FTRs may be seen as an evolution of contracts for
differences
The use of financial transmission rights (FTRs) was
proposed by William Hogan of Harvard University.
FTRs may be seen as an evolution of contracts for
differences
Nodal Pricing and Generic Market
Structures
Nodal prices are the ‘outcome’ of an optimization
process, where the objective is to maximize social
welfare according to generation and network
constraints
Generators and loads bid their willingness to produce
(consume) in an auction supervised by the ISO. The
procedure follows the previously outlined spot market
rules
The ISO then performs a security constrained unit
commitment (SCUC) and dispatch
Zonal Pricing
Zonal pricing - in accordance with nodal pricing -
establishes different electricity prices for different
locations in the network.
An example is the Norwegian system, where the
system operator splits the national transmission
system into two zones (North and South) in the case of
congestion
Zonal Pricing and Generic Market Structures
The Scandinavian countries give a working example of
zonal pricing, emphasizing that no central dispatch
and unit commitment is necessary as with nodal
pricing.
Uniform Pricing
Zonal pricing certain areas in a network are
aggregated to predefined price-zones
In these zones, prices are not distinguished node by
node, but are unified
Explicit Auctioning
explicit auctioning is a market-based concept, which
provides economic signals
This applies to the tie lines between e.g. Germany and
the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark, France and
the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom and Ireland
Auctions for capacity may be designed as uniform or
discriminatory auctions, where “the price of the
interconnector is set equal to the lowest accepted bid
Flow-based Market Coupling (FMC)
The proposal of flow-based market coupling (FMC) by
the Association of European Power Exchanges
(EuroPex) evolved from this market splitting concept.
FMC’s objective is to coordinate market operation at
the day-ahead stage.
FMC is designed to be able to coexist with forward
energy markets and explicit transmission capacity
markets.
Capacity Alleviation Methods
capacity alleviation methods and allocation methods were
distinguished
Redispatching-redispatching may be used in conjunction with
uniform marginal pricing.
Redispatching may also be used among different TSOs, which
makes close coordination necessary
Countertrade or Buy-Back Procedure-“Countertrading is based
upon the same principles as redispatching”[41], but may be
considered market-oriented
Countertrading is used for real-time congestion relief in the
Norwegian system and is used as exclusive CM concept in the
Swedish market
Conclusion
CM concepts may be also grouped into explicit and
implicit approaches. Explicit approaches establish two
markets, one for energy and one for transmission.
Hence, market participants have to take transactions
in both markets. Implicit auctions integrate the
markets for energy and transmission. Thus, capacity is
allocated implicitly by energy bids at a specific
location within the network.