Browsing Working Papers by Author "Glachant, Jean-Michel"
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Electricity internal market in the European Union : what to do next?
Glachant, Jean-Michel; Lévêque, François (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2005.)The European Union's "internal energy market" remains a work in progress. It is even possible its construction were to stall. Given current political, institutional and business conditions in Europe, there are no guarantees ... -
Gas Balancing Rules Must Take into account the Trade-off between Offering Pipeline Transport and Pipeline Flexibility in Liberalized Gas Markets
Keyaerts, Nico; Hallack, Michelle; Glachant, Jean-Michel; D’haeseleer, William (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2010-09)This paper analyses the value and cost of line-pack flexibility in liberalized gas markets through the examination of the techno-economic characteristics of gas transport pipelines and the trade-offs between the different ... -
An institutional frame to compare alternative market designs in EU electricity balancing
Glachant, Jean-Michel; Saguan, Marcelo (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2007)The so-called "electricity wholesale market" is, in fact, a sequence of several markets. The chain is closed with a provision for "balancing," in which energy from all wholesale markets is balanced under the authority of ... -
Long-term Energy Supply Contracts in European Competition Policy: Fuzzy not Crazy
Glachant, Jean-Michel; Adrien, de Hauteclocque (2008)Long-term supply contracts often have ambiguous effects on the competitive structure, investment and consumer welfare in the long term. In a context of market building, these effects are likely to be worsened and thus even ... -
Modelling the Effects of Nuclear Fuel Reservoir Operation in a Competitive Electricity Market
Lykidi, Maria; Glachant, Jean-Michel; Gourdel, Pascal (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2010-07)In many countries, the electricity systems are quitting the vertically integrated monopoly organization for an operation framed by competitive markets. In such a competitive regime one can ask what the optimal management ... -
Nordic electricity congestion's arrangement as a model for Europe : physical constraints or operators' opportunism?
Glachant, Jean-Michel; Pignon, Virginie (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2002)Congestion on power grids seems a physical reality, a "hard" fact easy to check. Our paper models a different idea: congestion signal may be distorted by transmission system operators (TSOs), which puts the European ...