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Browsing RSCAS Articles by Author "MEEUS, Leonardo"
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Title:Experience with electricity market test suite : students versus computational agents
Author(s):TRINH, Quynh Chi; SAGUAN, Marcelo; MEEUS, LeonardoDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:This paper applies two experimental economics methods (i.e., agent-based modeling and laboratory experiment) to a market test suite that is based on a fictional European wholesale electricity market. Quantitative results ...
Title:EU 2050 Low-Carbon Energy Future: Visions and strategies
Author(s):MEEUS, Leonardo; AZEVEDO, Isabel; MARCANTONINI, Claudio; GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; HAFNER, ManfredDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[THINK]Abstract:Analysis of the visions of key EU Member States to achieve a low-carbon energy system by 2050 finds that the states are already pursuing sometimes divergent strategies that create new risks for energy policy fragmentation ...
Title:Appraisal of the European Commission’s Energy Roadmap 2050
Author(s):MEEUS, LeonardoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:What is the European energy strategy for 2050? How different is it from the 2020 energy strategy? What are the technology options? What are the policy options? The European Commission provided a first answer to these ...
Title:Implicit Auctioning on the Kontek Cable: Third Time Lucky?
Author(s):MEEUS, LeonardoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Implicit auctioning in Europe is about eliminating cross-border trade inefficiencies by internalizing cross-border trade into the day-ahead auction procedures of the Power Exchanges that are already organizing trade ...
Title:Innovating Grid Regulation to Regulate Grid Innovation: From the Orkney Isles to Kriegers Flak Via Italy
Author(s):MEEUS, Leonardo; SAGUAN, MarceloDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In the current context of a decarbonizing electricity system, grid innovation is needed to deal with the main challenges of integrating distributed generation, demand and storage, and large-scale renewable energy sources. ...
Title:Global vs. Low Carbon Economy: The Case of the Revised European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
Author(s):AHNER, Nicole; MEEUS, LeonardoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Europe is tightening its climate change policy and with that its pollution control legislation, supposedly to lead the way towards a low carbon economy. As the rest of the world is lagging behind in greenhouse gas emission ...
Title:Achieving Learning Potentials in an Educational Simulation Game for Trading and Generating Electrical Energy
Author(s):DELARUE, Erik; LAGA, Elisabeth; MEEUS, Leonardo; BELMANS, Ronnie; D'HAESELEER, WilliamDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:This paper presents and motivates the development of a techno-economic education package, consisting of two simulation games,
to simulate both the trading and the generation of electricity in a liberalized market. Six ...
Title:Why (and How) to Regulate Power Exchanges in the EU Market Integration Context?,
Author(s):MEEUS, LeonardoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The European Union (EU) market integration is leading to increasingly monopolistic electricity market infrastructures, which has opened a debate on the regulation of these so-called power exchanges. In this paper, we start ...
Title:Well-Functioning Balancing Markets: A Prerequisite for Wind Power Integration
Author(s):VANDEZANDE, Leen; MEEUS, Leonardo; BELMANS, Ronnie; SAGUAN, Marcelo; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article focuses on the design of balancing markets in Europe taking into account an increasing wind power penetration. In several European countries, wind generation is so far not burdened with full balancing ...
Title:Block Order Restrictions in Combinatorial Electricity Energy Auctions
Author(s):MEEUS, Leonardo; VERHAEGEN, Karolien; BELMANS, RonnieDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In Europe, the auctions organized by “power exchanges” one day ahead of delivery are multi-unit, double-sided, uniformly priced combinatorial auctions. Generators, retailers, large consumers and traders participate at the ...
Title:Market Coupling and the Importance of Price Coordination between Power Exchanges
Author(s):MEEUS, Leonardo; VANDENZANDE, Leen; COLE, Stijn; BELMANS, RonnieDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In Europe, market coupling stands for a further integration of wholesale trading arrangements across country borders. More specifically, it refers to the implicit auctioning of cross-border physical transmission rights via ...
Title:Towards an International Tradable Green Certificate System: The challenging example of Belgium
Author(s):VERHAEGEN, Karolien; MEEUS, Leonardo; BELMANS, RonnieDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In Europe, a common framework for renewable energy sources (RES) is aspired. Tradable green certificates (TGCs) are a market-based cost-efficient means to stimulate electricity production from RES. Since TGCs are the most ...