Publications by Christof Lorenz Duthaler

A Network- and Performance-based Zonal Configuration Algorithm for Electricity Systems

An efficient and non-discriminatory capacity allocation and congestion management is a core task of transmission system operators in any restructured electricity sector. For historic reasons, the allocation of transmission capacity in the European electric ...

EPFL2012

Performance and Coherence in Network Industries

Matthias Finger, Marc Laperrouza, Nicolas Crettenand, Christof Lorenz Duthaler

Network industries, such as electricity, railways and air transport, are very complex technical, economic, and political systems in which the interplay of technology and institutions has a significant impact on performance. While the performance of the net ...

2010

Evolution of Transmission Rights in the European Electricity Market

Matthias Finger, Christof Lorenz Duthaler

In the European electricity market, transmission rights currently evolve from a physical to a financial nature. This requires a fundamental change in the underlying market design and the institutional setup. This paper applies the framework of congestion r ...

2009

Financial Transmission Rights in Europe’s Electricity Market

Matthias Finger, Christof Lorenz Duthaler

After their theoretical development in the early 1990s, Financial Transmission Rights (FTRs) have been applied in restructured US electricity markets for about a decade now. Lately, FTRs have also been proposed as a potential feature of the emerging Europe ...

2008

Empirical Analysis of the Congestion Revenue Cycle in the European Electricity Market

Matthias Finger, Christof Lorenz Duthaler

In the light of the ongoing electricity market integration in Europe, the debate has turned to a more regional approach of network access. Among other things, this leads to new questions with regard to the handling of congestion revenues. This paper explor ...

2008