Congestion Management

When millions of people were cut off from the power supply for hours in the summer of 2003, first in the northeastern United States and later in Italy, one topic was suddenly the subject of intense discussion again in Europe: Security of supply. Until then, the focus had long been on economic and, above all, ecological aspects of energy supply. The liberalization of the European electricity markets also contributed to this change in perspective, leading to major changes and, as a consequence, to uncertainty among market participants. The subject of this book is precisely this problem: the interconnected system, originally designed for regional power supply and mutual assistance, is reaching its limits due to growing international power transports. Scarce transmission capacities between national power grids lead to grid bottlenecks, which are an obstacle on the.