A Functional Legal Design for Reliable Electricity Supply

Preface
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures

1. Electricity supply: from monopoly to complexity
1.1 Introduction
1.2 A paradigm shift for network industries
1.3 What does it mean for electricity?
1.4 Main research question
1.5 Relevance
1.6 Reading guide

2. Research framework
2.1 Research goal
2.2 Research question
2.3 A design problem: the meta model
2.4 The meta model as applied to this research question
2.5 Research method

3. System description
3.1 Introduction: the electricity system
3.2 The technical subsystem
3.3 The economic subsystem
3.4 The subsystems integrated

4. Legal organisation
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Hohfeld's fundamental legal conceptions
4.3 Policy instruments
4.4 Legal organisation: the issues
4.5 Allocation of responsibility
4.6 Permissions: who is allowed to perform which tasks?
4.7 Rules: how to perform responsibilities and permissions?
4.8 Government control
4.9 Design variables

5. Public policy goals
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Triple A: the main primary goals
5.3 Availability: secure supply for all
5.4 Affordability: the quest for economic efficiency
5.5 Acceptability: socially responsible electricity supply
5.6 Secondary goals
5.7 The main goals in our design problem

6. Legal constraints
6.1 Introduction: restriction to the EU
6.2 Development of a European electricity framework
6.3 Free movement of goods
6.4 Free movement of services and capital and the right of establishment
6.5 Competition law: rules for undertakings
6.6 State aid
6.7 Public service obligations
6.8 Directives: main structure of the industry
6.9 Conclusion: legal constraints in our design problem
7. Design method
7.1 A 'method' to integrate the model and selection stages
7.2 Outline of the method
7.3 Step I: Analysis of the function
7.4 Step II: Analysis of each function within its context
7.5 Step III: Design decisions for the legal organisation

8. An inventory of critical technical functions
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Building a functional model
8.3 The functions
8.4 Categorising the functions
8.5 Selecting the functions for the case studies

9. Electricity generation
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Analysis of generation as a function (Step I)
9.3 The function of generation in its context (Step II)
9.4 Designing the organisation of generation (Step III)
9.5 Conclusion: generation in a market environment

10. Maintenance of the energy balance
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The analysis of the function (Step I)
10.3 The function within its context (Step II)
10.4 Design of the function's organisation (Step III)
10.5 Compensation of energy losses
10.6 Conclusion and analysis

11. Generation adequacy
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Securing sufficient investment in generation capacity (Step I)
11.3 Generation adequacy in its context (Step II)
11.4 Designing a framework to secure generation adequacy (Step III)
11.5 Analysis: how to secure generation adequacy

12. Network operations
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Voltage control and reactive power management
12.3 N - 1 security
12.4 Other network operations functions

13. Congestion management
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Criteria for congestion management methods
13.3 Calculation of the amount of available capacity
13.4 Congestion management methods
13.5 Corrective methods: Redispatching and countertrading
13.6 Allocation methods
13.7 Evaluation of congestion management methods
13.8 Designing congestion management
13.9 Conclusion

14. Transport adequacy
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Analysis of transport adequacy (Step I)
14.3 Transport adequacy in its context (Step II)
14.4 The organisation of transport adequacy (Step III)
14.5 Quality regulation
14.6 Conclusion

15. Merchant investment in interconnectors?
15.1 Interconnection investment
15.2 Why merchant interconnectors?
15.3 Standard regulation of transmission
15.4 Economics of merchant interconnectors
15.5 The special regime of the Regulation
15.6 The Estlink decisions
15.7 Analysis and conclusion: a Trojan horse?

16. Validation of the method
16.1 Introduction
16.2 The theory behind validation of the method
16.3 Validation of the FULDA-method
16.4 The FULDA-method as a decision support tool
16.5 The impact of the context on the method: comparison EU-US
16.6 Strategy for a thorough validation

17. Conclusion
17.1 The need for restructuring the legal organisation
17.2 Design criteria
17.3 Design approach and FULDA-method
17.4 Our design for reliable electricity supply
17.5 Assessment: does the design meet the criteria?

18. Reflection
18.1 Introduction
18.2 Responsibility for the design
18.3 Responsibility for organising a function
18.4 The role of technology
18.5 Comparison with practice
18.6 The need for coordination
18.7 Further research

Appendix
Case study: the maintenance of the energy balance
A.1 Introduction
A.2 European rules for the function
A.3 Maintenance of the energy balance in the UCTE system
A.4 Selecting the countries for the case studies
A.5 The Netherlands
A.6 Belgium
A.7 France
A.8 England andWales
A.9 Germany

Bibliography
List of EC Legislation
Summary
Samenvatting
Curriculum vitae