Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26889 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2006,5
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
Scarce interconnector capacities are a severe obstacle to transregional competition and a unified market for electricity in the European Union. However, physically the interconnectors are rarely used up to capacity. This is due to the fact that the current allocation schemes make only limited use of the fact that currents in opposing directions cancel out. We propose a netting auction mechanism which makes use of this and in which even small transmission capacities can generate large competitive pressure in adjacent markets. Netting increases the usage of capacity and reduces the auctioneer's incentive to withhold capacity from the auction.
Subjects: 
Divisible good auctions
interconnector
electricity marktes
competition policy
JEL: 
L94
D44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
438.03 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.