Balancing and redispatch: the next stepping stones in European electricity market integration: Improving the market design and the efficiency of the procurement of balancing and redispatch services

Balancing and redispatch are essential services for the security and stability of the electricity network. Balancing refers to continuously maintaining a balance between supply and demand through activating flexible resources. Redispatch refers to changing the dispatch of generators to remedy network congestion. The need for flexibility...

Gaming an Oligopoly: A Game-Theoretic Computational Modeling Approach on the Dutch Secondary Reserve Capacity Market

This thesis is written in the context of a world in which renewable energy assumes an ever growing share within the Dutch electricity sector. Given the fluctuating output of renewable energy sources, the importance of the Dutch secondary reserve capacity market is expected to increase considerably in upcoming years. Its architecture, a monopsony...

Congestion management in the Dutch power sector: A quantitative evaluation of policy options

Due to the introduction of a new grid connection policy, transmission system operator TenneT expects congestion to arise on the Dutch transmission grid in the near future. This new connection policy was introduced by the Ministry of Economic Affairs to abolish the discrimination between existing grid users and new entrants, and should improve...