• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Zonal pricing in a deregulated electricity market 

      Bjørndal, Mette; Jörnsten, Kurt (Discussion paper, Working paper, 1999)
      In the deregulated Norwegian electricity market a zonal transmission pricing system is used to cope with network capacity problems. In this paper we will illustrate some of the problems that the zonal pricing system, as ...