Does More International Transmission Capacity Increase Competition in the Belgian Electricity Market?

Electricity Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-36

  Küpper, Gerd ^a   Delarue, Erik ^a   Delvaux, Bram ^a   Meeus, Leonardo ^a   Bekaert, David ^a   Willems, Bert ^a   Proost, Stef ^a   D'haeseleer, William ^a   Deketelaere, Kurt ^a   Belmans, Ronnie ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; POWER MARKETS;

CAPACITY INCREASE; CONCENTRATION MEASURES; CURRENT CONCENTRATION; CURRENT TRANSMISSION; INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE; NATIONAL MARKETS; PERSPECTIVE TAKING; SUBSTANTIAL CAPACITY; TRANSMISSION CAPACITIES; TRANSMISSION CAPACITY INCREASE;

COMPETITION;

EID: 58349104112     PISSN: 10406190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2008.12.006     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Armstrong M., and Sappington D.E.M. Regulation, Competition and Liberalization. J. Econ. Literature 44 2 (2006) 325-366
2. Borenstein S., Bushnell J., and Stoft S. The Competitive Effects of Transmission Capacity in a Deregulated Electricity Industry. RAND J. Econ. 31 2 (2000) 294-325
3. Cardell J.B., Cullen Hitt C., and Hogan W.W. Market Power and Strategic Interaction in Electricity Networks. Resource Energy Econ. 19 (1997) 109-137
4. Commission de Régulation de l'Electricité et du Gaz (CREG), 2006a, La Concentration Prévue entre Gaz de France et Suez, March.
5. Commission de Régulation de l'Electricité et du Gaz (CREG), 2006b, Etude Relative au Rapport 'Structure and Functioning of the Electricity Market in Belgium in a European Perspective' d'Octobre 2004 Elaboré par London Economics, May.
6. Commission de Régulation de l'Electricité et du Gaz (CREG), 2007, Rapport Annuel 2006 à la Commission Européenne, July.
7. Elia, 2007, Jaarverslag.
8. European Transmission System Operator (ETSO), 2008, NTC map winter 2007-08.
9. European Commission, 2006, Case No COMP/M.4180 - Gaz de France/Suez. C(2006) 5419 final.
10. Frontier Economics, 2006, Addressing the Adverse Effects of Market Power, Final report prepared for CREG, March.
11. Gaz de France Suez, 2008, Prospectus Etabli à l'Occasion de l'Emission et de l'Admission des Actions GDF Suez Résultant de la Fusion par Absorption de Suez par Gaz de France, Presented at general assembly, July.
12. Gilbert R., Neuhoff K., and Newbery D. Allocating Transmission to Mitigate Market Power in Electricity Networks. RAND J. Econ. 35 4 (2004) 691-709
13. Hobbs B.F., Rijkers F.A.M., and Boots M.G. The More Cooperation, the More Competition? A Cournot Analysis of the Benefits of Electric Market Coupling. Energy J. 26 4 (2005)
14. Gerd Küpper and Bert Willems, 2007, Arbitrage in Energy Markets: Competing in the Incumbent's Shadow, K.U. Leuven, CES Discussion Paper Series 07.30, Leuven, Belgium.
15. Léautier T.-O. Transmission Constraints and Imperfect Markets for Power. J. Reg. Econ. 19 1 (2001) 27-54
16. London Economics, 2004, Structure and Functioning of the Electricity Market in Belgium in a European Perspective, Final report to CREG, Oct.
17. London Economics, 2007, Structure and Performance of Six European Wholesale Electricity Markets in 2003, 2004 and 2005, Presented to DG Comp, Feb.
18. Leonardo Meeus and Ronnie Belmans, 2008, Electricity Market Integration in Europe, Revue E tijdschrift- nr. 1, March.
19. Neuhoff K., and Newbery D. Evolution of Electricity Markets: Does Sequence Matter?. Util. Policy 13 (2005) 163-173
20. David M. Newbery, 2004, Privatising Network Industries, CESifo Working Paper No. 1132.
21. Stoft S. Power System Economics: Designing Markets for Electricity (2002), Wiley-IEEE Press
22. Paul Twomey, Richard Green, Karsten Neuhoff and David Newbery, 2005, A Review of the Monitoring of Market Power: The Possible Roles of TSOs in Monitoring for Market Power Issues in Congested Transmission Systems, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Working Paper 05-002.
23. VGE. Jahrbuch der Europäischen Energie- und Rohstoffwirtschaft 2006 (2006), Verlag Glückauf GmbH, Essen
24. Bert Willems, 2006, Virtual Divestitures, Will They Make a Difference? Cournot Competition, Option Markets and Efficiency, University of California, CSEM Working Paper 150.