European Bidding Zone Review with Flow-based Approach and Electricity Market Analyses (Phase III)

Austria
European Bidding Zone Review with Flow-based Approach and Electricity Market Analyses (Phase III)

client: Austrian Power Grid APG (Austria)

type: Study and Software

finishing date: March 2018 (January 2019)

team: Zoran Vujasinovic – Project leader, D. Vlaisavljevic, D. Todorovic

In the first two project phases, the definition of methodology, procedures and necessary software tools for conducting the European bidding zones review was done.

Within this, third (operational) phase, simulations and analysis are performed in order to examine and quantify the market and network effects of several Germany and Austria bidding zone configurations, for two perspective years – 2020 and 2025.

Type of services provided:

  • Development of Continental European network models
  • Selection of CB/CO pairs (Critical branches/Outages)
  • Development of Generation Shift Key (GSK)
  • Flow-based capacity calculations
  • Load flow analyses, n-1 security analyses
  • Loop flows analyses
  • Final Report