Power Exchanges and Capacity Allocation and Congestion Management: A New Role in a Better Regulatory Environment?
Article from: OGEL 1 (2018), in Electricity Law and Regulation
Abstract
This paper assesses the manner in which the Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1222 of 24 July 2015 establishing a guideline on capacity allocation and congestion management ("CACM") alters the legal context within which power exchanges ("PXs") perform their activities. By submitting the cooperation among the newly introduced NEMO-entities, and between these NEMOs and TSOs, regarding market coupling to a new set of rules, CACM affects the market coupling activities of PXs in different ways. This paper in particular examines from the power exchanges perspective (1) the need for the ...