Congestion Management from the EU Law Perspective
Article from: OGEL 6 (2011), in Electricity Law and Regulation
Introduction
The objective of the European Union is to progressively transform the highly national energy markets into a European Union-wide internal market of electricity. The sector-specific regulation together with the EU competition law forces the national energy markets to develop hand in hand with the market integration objective. However, the physical energy infrastructure sets limits to the free movement of electricity and in many cases facilitates different anticompetitive behavior like market foreclosure. The infrastructure is in general in hands of a single or a few rare market ...