Electricity markets & regulation

The Area of Electricity Markets and Regulation focuses on understanding the dynamics of current electricity markets and price formation to support industry stakeholders and new market participants in adapting their short- and long-term strategies to improve efficiency and competitiveness. It also involves rethinking existing market structures and designing innovative frameworks to promote greater market participation and unlock the flexibility of both central and distributed resources, while ensuring their financial sustainability. Developing market models is essential for addressing market challenges, testing new market structures, and enabling continuous adaptation to evolving contexts, including local and regional market integration, power system decentralisation, varying decision timeframes, emerging resources, and new products and system services.