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SKEE4673 Chapter 1 Competitive Electricity Market
SKEE4673 Chapter 1 Competitive Electricity Market
SKEE4673 Chapter 1 Competitive Electricity Market
1.1 Introduction
Revolution process of ESI :
i. To enhance efficiency
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Objectives are achieved through the introduction of competition which is
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supported by regulation and encouragement of private participation.
An international approach for the design of the legal, regulatory and institutional
managed three main components of the system which are generation, transmission
and distribution.
Advantages :
Less accidents
their members in order to improve efficiency & reliability and reduce costs.
Vertically-Bundled Structure
Generation System
and sold by single Vertical-Bundled (Monopoly
Transmission System
Structured) company, called “Electric Utility”.
Distribution System
Wholesale Level
Customer
Government prompts to create open market that is more transparent and efficient
in order to attract capital investment from those eager to capitalize on the potential
2. Over-employment
A monopoly has always a significant power of driving up prices since it has the
market power and the right of setting its own tariff. Thus, the prices, tariff and
investment plans are all regulated for the interest of the public, by an independent
Vertical Unbundling
independent parts.
independent company
2) Ensure that the price of each service accurately reflects the cost of that service,
3) Not to make any cross-subsidy in the tariff and expenditures among these
companies
Vertical Unbundling
Transmission System
Monopoly Those layers carrying out :
Regulated
(by regulator) “Electricity services” Distribution System
Wholesale Level
Customer
Deregulation Regulation
environment, where two or more players where a single player acts in that region
markets.
- Receive services (trans and dist services) from members of regulated layer.
- Make payments for the electricity services (trans/ dist services) from members of
regulated layers.
2. Improvement in
- service efficiency
- service quality
3. Reduction in
- environmental pollution
- energy prices
CEC
MO
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Where
Effective Loss