This paper considers competition in electric networks and how the network structure affects
the competition. The approach is to examine non-cooperative behavior among producers …

The paper proposes a model to represent medium-term hydro-thermal operation of electrical
power systems in deregulated frameworks. The model objective is to compute the …

In a competitive power market, the task of an independent system operator (ISO) is to ensure
full dispatch of the contracted power. However, if it causes the line flows to exceed their …

This paper presents a model to address generation companies' medium-term strategic
analysis (including yearly forecast and decision-making processes) based on a conjectured …

Throughout the world, the electricity industry is currently undergoing a significant
restructuring process toward deregulation and competition. In the new deregulated power …

This paper addresses the problem a generating utility faces in order to decide which of its
thermal units to start-up and to shutdown before submitting the hourly bids to a day-ahead …

It is widely accepted that medium-term generation planning can be advantageously
modeled through market equilibrium representation. There exist several methods to define …

In this chapter we address some of the new short-term problems that are faced by a
generation company in a deregulated electricity market, and we propose a decision …

Over the past two decades, the fact that many games have been formulated as variational
inequalities problems has led to relevant developments related with the existence and …

Proposals in the European Union and other regions of the world are being currently made in
order to ease electricity trading between different countries. One of the reasons invoked in …