Electricity market design, regulation and monitoring
- Structure of electricity market
- Capacity and ancillary services markets
- Design and implementation of capacity markets
- Alternative market models for Europe
- Local balancing market and balancing areas
- Transmission and distribution tariffs
- Network congestion management
- Regulation of transmission and distribution systems
- Market monitoring
- Market power and market strategies
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Role of the last resort suppliers
Technical aspects of electricity market operation
- Market enabling and enhancing technologies
- Provision of ancillary services
- Smart grid technologies
- Long term grid planning
- System operation planning in market environment
- Economic aspects of energy storage technologies
- Cost of new nuclear safety requirements
- Innovative generation technologies
- Demand site management
- Internet based technologies
Operation, modeling, forecasting and simulation of commodity, technical and financial markets
- Technical markets: system balancing, short term reserve and ancillary services provision
- Carbon market
- Green certificate markets
- Cross-border transmission capacity access and trading
- Futures, forward and other derivative markets
- Network congestion management
- Electricity market modelling and simulation
- Risk management in energy markets
- Economic modelling of energy market
- Economic analysis of energy price evolution
- Portfolio management
Implementation of the European energy and climate policy
- Security of supply
- Integration of regional electricity markets. Building a single European market
- Economics of renewables, support schemes and their impact on the European power systems and electricity markets
- De-carbonisation of the power sector
- Economics of climate change
- Stakeholder vision on the future power system
Infrastructure development and asset management
- Investments in the transmission and distribution systems
- Incentives for investments in transmission and distribution, merchant investments
- Investment analysis
- Transmission and distribution asset management pricing models
Presence and future of gas and coal markets
- Natural gas and coal commodity markets and derivate markets
- Economic and environmental impact of unconventional gas
- Carbon market regulation and its footprint on electricity market
- Liberalization and regulation of the European gas market
- Recent development s in the reducing carbon footprint of fossil fuels
