Nexant: Interconnected Electric Networks and Competitive Electricity Markets
Article from: OGEL 3 (2003), in Electricity Law and Regulation
Summary
Over the last 50 years there has been a global trend in which power systems have formed regional electricity associations to link countries together. There are three major regional electricity organisations in the developed countries and three such organisations in the developing countries: Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE, see www.ucte.org ): member power companies manage the networks of the continental European electricity market (Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy). The ...