Governing through visions: Evaluating the performativity of the European gas target models

In 2010 an initiative was launched to realize a competitive single EU market for natural gas through the use of a future vision. This Gas Target Model (GTM) aimed to provide direction for concrete market development through regulatory structures as well as an overarching scope of what a functioning gas market would entail. This paper assesses...

Shippers and Network Capacity Booking in the Dutch Gas Market

The main objectives of the Third Gas Directive (2009/73EC) approved by the European Union are: unbundling, creating an independent Transport Service Operator (TSO) and ensuring free access to the market. The separation of gas trading from transportation activities required new market rules and gas balancing. Thereby, the TSO's responsibilities...

1. Assessment of Transparency in the Mediterranean region and Monitoring of the MEDREG Guidelines of Good Practice (GGP) on Transparency. 2. Assessment (metric) to the level of energy security of supply in EU/Spain and the main factors

1. The purpose of the report is to investigate the transparency status in the gas systems and markets of Mediterranean countries, and to monitor the guidelines and recommendations on transparency contained in the MEDREG of Good Practice (GGP). The results of this analysis are presented in the report. 2. The purpose of this report is to give the...

Coupling Agent-Based Models of Natural Gas and Electricity Markets

In this paper two agent-based models of energy markets are considered: one modelling the market for natural gas and the other of the electricity market incorporating a CO2 market. Because the energy systems are highly interrelated it is interesting to study how they were conceptualised and to explore possibilities to connect the two models,...