Efficient pricing for European electricity networks - The theory of nodal pricing applied to feeding-in wind in Germany

Utilities Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 284-291

  Leuthold, Florian ^a   Weigt, Hannes ^a   von Hirschhausen, Christian ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electricity networks; Locational Marginal Pricing; Nodal pricing; Welfare; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; PRICING POLICY; WIND POWER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 54049137280     PISSN: 09571787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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