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Electricity Networks: Infrastructure and Operations
“Too complex for a resource?”
By: Dennis Volk / IEA
It is an issue paper on electricity transmission and distribution network operations and investment in liberalised electricity markets with low carbon policies. It presents the complex policy, regulatory and market context in which networks have to provide services to the market. It considers ways of strengthening the networks’ role in the overall power system to reduce the public good characteristics and permit market participants to decide whether, to what extent and when, to use it as a resource. This publication is part of a series on electricity published in conjunction with the overall Electricity Security Action Plan (ESAP).