Transmission tariffs in competitive electricity markets

• Autor(es): Ferreira, Judite ; Vale, Zita ; Morais, H.
• Data: 2009
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/1478
• Origem: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Assunto(s): Electricity market; Transmission tariffs
• Tipo de Documento: Documento de conferência
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

In context of electricity market, the transmission price is an important tool to an efficient development of the electricity system. The electricity market is influenced by several factors; however the transmission network management is one of the most important aspects, because the network is a natural monopoly. The transmission tariffs can help to regulate the market, for that reason evaluate tariff must have strict criterions. This paper explains several methodologies to tariff the use of transmission network by transmission network users. The methods presented are: Post-Stamp Method; MW-Mile Method; Distribution Factors Methods; Tracing Methodology; Bialek’s Tracing Method and Locational Marginal Price.