Blar i NHH Brage på forfatter "Bjørndal, Mette"
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Norske nettselskapers tilpasning til den økonomiske reguleringen : kartlegging av den økonomiske reguleringens beslutningsrelevans ved drifts- og investeringsbeslutninger
Burheim, Edda Nermoen; Dahl, Elise Ivara (Master thesis, 2016)Norske nettselskaper er naturlige monopolister og reguleres i dag gjennom en tillatt inntekt som er sammensatt av en del kostnadsdekning og en del incentivregulering. Incentivreguleringen gjøres ved hjelp av benchmarking ... -
Nyverdibaserte nettrelaterte kostnader : del 2
Bjørndal, Mette; Johnsen, Thore (Rapport, Research report, 2004-12)En hovedmålsetning ved regulering av nettselskaper i kraftsektoren har vært å gi insentiver til effektiv drift og investeringer. Nettrelaterte kostnader utgjør anslagsvis 80 % av selskapenes totale kostnadsbase. De inkluderer ... -
Oil Production in a Changing : Climate An Investigation of Optimal Oil Extraction on the Norwegian Continental Shelf under Current and Potential Climate Policies
Hole, Inger Nielsen; Ravnskog, Liv Torill Søvde (Master thesis, 2021)This thesis addresses the challenges of being an oil nation in a time where the world needs to combat climate changes. Emissions from fossil fuels are the dominant cause of global warming, and the need for actions to ... -
Optimal Scale in Different Environments – The Case of Norwegian Electricity Distribution Companies
Cheng, Xiaomei; Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette (Discussion paper;22/15, Working paper, 2015-09-17)We study returns to scale in Norwegian electricity distribution companies. The scale issue of this sector has become an important political question, and it was for instance discussed by the Reiten commission (OED, 2014) ... -
Paradoxes in networks supporting competitive electricity markets
Bjørndal, Mette; Jörnsten, Kurt (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000)Grid investments are normally done in electrical networks in order to achieve a well functioning integrated electricity market and/or making the network more secure, i.e. less sensitive to link failures. In general, there ... -
Pricing wind: A revenue adequate, cost recovering uniform price for electricity markets with intermittent generation
Zakeri, Golbon; Pritchard, Geoff; Bjørndal, Mette; Bjørndal, Endre (Discussion paper;15/16, Working paper, 2016-09-06)With greater penetration of renewable generation, the uncertainty faced in electricity markets has increased substantially. Conventionally, generators are assigned a pre-dispatch quantity in advance of real time, based on ... -
Productivity Development for Norwegian Electricity Distribution Companies 2004-2013
Cheng, Xiaomei; Bjørndal, Endre; Lien, Gudbrand; Bjørndal, Mette (Discussion paper;27/15, Working paper, 2015-10-07)Norwegian distribution companies have been subjected to an incentive regulation scheme from 1997, and the efficiency incentives were further strengthened with the introduction of yardstick regulation in 2007. We examine ... -
Productivity development of Swedish distribution system operators in the 21st century : application of the Malmquist index
Munck, Thomas De (Master thesis, 2019)Nowadays, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a well-established practice to apply in network regulation. More specifically, DEA can turn out to be a proper tool to evaluate the productivity development of an industry. ... -
Revenue cap regulation in a deregulated electricity market : effects on a grid company
Bjørndal, Mette; Jörnsten, Kurt (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001)In Norway, an incentive-based regulation of electricity distribution companies, based on revenue caps, was introduced in 1997. The revenues are adjusted annually, and the new revenue cap is determined on the basis of last ... -
Revenue cap regulation in a deregulated electricity market : effects on a grid company
Bjørndal, Mette; Jörnsten, Kurt (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-08)In 1997 an incentive-based regulation was introduced for Norwegian transmission and distribution companies. Under the following revenue regulation regime, the permissible revenue of a grid company is adjusted annually, and ... -
Simulation of congestion management and security constraints in the Nordic electricity market
Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette; Gribkovskaia, Victoria (Discussion papers;30/14, Working paper, 2014-06)Presently in the Nordic day-ahead market, zonal pricing or market splitting is used for relieving congestion between a predetermined set of price areas. Constraints internal to the price areas are resolved by counter ... -
Specification of merger gains in the Norwegian electricity distribution industry
Saastamoinen, Antti; Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette (Discussion paper;7/16, Working paper, 2016-04-19)Electricity distribution often exhibits economies of scale. In Norway, a number of smaller distribution system operators exist and thus there is potential to restructure the industry, possibly through mergers. However, the ... -
Stochastic Electricity Dispatch: A challenge for market design
Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette; Midthun, Kjetil; Tomasgard, Asgeir (Discussion paper;11/16, Working paper, 2016-08-25)We consider an electricity market with two sequential market clearings, for instance representing a day-ahead and a real-time market. When the first market is cleared, there is uncertainty with respect to generation and/or ... -
Styrets rolle, ansvar og involvering i norske nettselskap : en kartlegging av nettselskapenes styre, og deres syn på energilovens krav om selskapsmessig og funksjonelt skille
Dahl, Ida Sofie; Faugstadmo, Linn Andrea (Master thesis, 2018)Avhandlingen tar for seg styrene i den norske nettsektoren, som på grunn av monopolsituasjonen i bransjen er strengt regulert med hjemmel i energiloven. Formålet er å kartlegge styrets rolle og funksjon i nettselskapene, ... -
The Flow-Based Market Coupling Model and the Bidding Zone Configuration
Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette; Cai, Hong (Discussion paper;15/18, Working paper, 2018-10-24)In May 2015, the Flow-Based Market Coupling (FBMC) model replaced the Available Transfer Capacity (ATC) model in Central Western Europe to determine the power transfer among bidding zones in the day-ahead market. It might ... -
Topics on electricity transmission pricing
Bjørndal, Mette (Report, Research report, 2000-04)The efficiency of the power market is heavily affected by the operation and pricing of the transmission system and the topic of this thesis concerns the interaction of the transmission network and the energy markets. After ... -
Topics on electricity transmission pricing
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Viewing the deregulated electricity market as a bilevel programming problem
Bjørndal, Mette; Jörnsten, Kurt (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000)In this paper we present a bilevel programming formulation of a deregulated electricity market. By looking at a deregulated electricity market in this format we achieve two things, the relation between a deregulated ... -
Weight restrictions in the DEA benchmarking modul for Norwegian electricity distribution companies : size and structural variables
Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette; Camanho, Ana (Report, Research report, 2009-11)We have previously, in report 33/08, looked at possible weight restrictions for the so-called “geography” variables in the DEA model for the distribution networks. In this report we consider weight restrictions for the ... -
Weight restrictions on geography variables in the DEA benchmarking model for Norwegian electricity distribution companies
Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette; Camanho, Ana (Report, Research report, 2008-12)The DEA model for the distribution networks is designed to take into account the diverse operating conditions of the companies through so-called “geography” variables. Our analyses show that companies with difficult operating ...