A functional legal design for reliable electricity supply : how technology affects law /
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Author / Creator: | Knops, Hamilcar P.A. (Hamilcar Pieter Anton), 1975- |
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Imprint: | Antwerp : Intersentia ; Portland, OR : Distribution for the USA and Canada [by] International Specialized Book Services, c2008. |
Description: | xiv, 565 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Energy & law series ; 6 Energy & law ; 6. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7361293 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- 1. Electricity supply: from monopoly to complexity
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. A paradigm shift for network industries
- 1.3. What does it mean for electricity?
- 1.4. Main research question
- 1.5. Relevance
- 1.6. Reading guide
- 2. Research framework
- 2.1. Research goal
- 2.2. Research question
- 2.3. A design problem: the meta model
- 2.4. The meta model as applied to this research question
- 2.5. Research method
- 3. System description
- 3.1. Introduction: the electricity system
- 3.2. The technical subsystem
- 3.2.1. The physical layer
- 3.2.2. The operational layer
- 3.3. The economic subsystem
- 3.3.1. Three types of services
- 3.3.2. The commodity market
- 3.3.3. Technical services ('connection')
- 3.3.4. Other services ('commercial')
- 3.4. The subsystems integrated
- 3.4.1. Links from the technical to the economic subsystem
- 3.4.2. Links from the economic to the technical subsystem
- 3.4.3. Transmission tariffs: 'copper plate' or not?
- 4. Legal organisation
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Hohfeld's fundamental legal conceptions
- 4.3. Policy instruments
- 4.4. Legal organisation: the issues
- 4.5. Allocation of responsibility
- 4.6. Permissions: who is allowed to perform which tasks?
- 4.7. Rules: how to perform responsibilities and permissions?
- 4.8. Government control
- 4.9. Design variables
- 5. Public policy goals
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Triple A: the main primary goals
- 5.3. Availability: secure supply for all
- 5.4. Affordability: the quest for economic efficiency
- 5.5. Acceptability: socially responsible electricity supply
- 5.6. Secondary goals
- 5.7. The main goals in our design problem
- 6. Legal constraints
- 6.1. Introduction: restriction to the EU
- 6.2. Development of a European electricity framework
- 6.3. Free movement of goods
- 6.4. Free movement of services and capital and the right of establishment
- 6.5. Competition law: rules for undertakings
- 6.6. State aid
- 6.7. Public service obligations
- 6.8. Directives: main structure of the industry
- 6.9. Conclusion: legal constraints in our design problem
- 7. Design method
- 7.1. A 'method' to integrate the model and selection stages
- 7.2. Outline of the method
- 7.3. Step I: Analysis of the function
- 7.4. Step II: Analysis of each function within its context
- 7.5. Step III: Design decisions for the legal organisation
- 7.5.1. The core of the FULDA-method
- 7.5.2. Who should decide about the organisation of a function?
- 7.5.3. A. Should someone be made explicitly responsible for this function?
- 7.5.4. B. Who should be made responsible? or: Who should be allowed to perform this function?
- 7.5.5. C. How should the function be further organised?
- 7.5.6. D. What control possibilities for government should be implemented?
- 8. An inventory of critical technical functions
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Building a functional model
- 8.3. The functions
- 8.4. Categorising the functions
- 8.5. Selecting the functions for the case studies
- 9. Electricity generation
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Analysis of generation as a function (Step I)
- 9.3. The function of generation in its context (Step II)
- 9.4. Designing the organisation of generation (Step III)
- 9.5. Conclusion: generation in a market environment
- 10. Maintenance of the energy balance
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. The analysis of the function (Step I)
- 10.3. The function within its context (Step II)
- 10.4. Design of the function's organisation (Step III)
- 10.5. Compensation of energy losses
- 10.6. Conclusion and analysis
- 11. Generation adequacy
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Securing sufficient investment in generation capacity (Step I)
- 11.3. Generation adequacy in its context (Step II)
- 11.4. Designing a framework to secure generation adequacy (Step III)
- 11.4.1. Should someone be made explicitly responsible?
- 11.4.2. Who should be made explicitly responsible?
- 11.4.3. Controlling the function through capacity mechanisms
- 11.5. Analysis: how to secure generation adequacy
- 12. Network operations
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Voltage control and reactive power management
- 12.2.1. Analysis of voltage control (Step I)
- 12.2.2. Voltage control in its context (Step II)
- 12.2.3. The organisation of voltage control (Step III)
- 12.2.4. Conclusion
- 12.3. N - 1 security
- 12.3.1. The analysis of N-1 security as a function (Step I)
- 12.3.2. The context of N-1 security (Step II)
- 12.3.3. Design of the rules for 'N-1 security' (Step III)
- 12.3.4. Conclusion
- 12.4. Other network operations functions
- 12.4.1. Flow management
- 12.4.2. Network-faults clearing and short-circuit currents
- 12.4.3. Black-start capacity
- 13. Congestion management
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Criteria for congestion management methods
- 13.3. Calculation of the amount of available capacity
- 13.4. Congestion management methods
- 13.5. Corrective methods: Redispatching and countertrading
- 13.6. Allocation methods
- 13.6.1. General overview
- 13.6.2. Explicit auctioning
- 13.6.3. Implicit auctioning
- 13.6.4. Market splitting and market coupling
- 13.7. Evaluation of congestion management methods
- 13.8. Designing congestion management
- 13.9. Conclusion
- 14. Transport adequacy
- 14.1. Introduction
- 14.2. Analysis of transport adequacy (Step I)
- 14.3. Transport adequacy in its context (Step II)
- 14.4. The organisation of transport adequacy (Step III)
- 14.5. Quality regulation
- 14.5.1. The need for risk governance
- 14.5.2. The quality objective
- 14.5.3. The policy instruments
- 14.5.4. Can the time lag problem be overcome?
- 14.5.5. Conclusion
- 14.6. Conclusion
- 15. Merchant investment in interconnectors?
- 15.1. Interconnection investment
- 15.2. Why merchant interconnectors?
- 15.3. Standard regulation of transmission
- 15.4. Economics of merchant interconnectors
- 15.5. The special regime of the Regulation
- 15.6. The Estlink decisions
- 15.7. Analysis and conclusion: a Trojan horse?
- 16. Validation of the method
- 16.1. Introduction
- 16.2. The theory behind validation of the method
- 16.3. Validation of the FULDA-method
- 16.4. The FULDA-method as a decision support tool
- 16.5. The impact of the context on the method: comparison EU-US
- 16.6. Strategy for a thorough validation
- 17. Conclusion
- 17.1. The need for restructuring the legal organisation
- 17.2. Design criteria
- 17.3. Design approach and FULDA-method
- 17.4. Our design for reliable electricity supply
- 17.5. Assessment: does the design meet the criteria?
- 18. Reflection
- 18.1. Introduction
- 18.2. Responsibility for the design
- 18.3. Responsibility for organising a function
- 18.4. The role of technology
- 18.5. Comparison with practice
- 18.6. The need for coordination
- 18.7. Further research
- Appendix. Case study: the maintenance of the energy balance
- A.1. Introduction
- A.2. European rules for the function
- A.3. Maintenance of the energy balance in the UCTE system
- A.4. Selecting the countries for the case studies
- A.5. The Netherlands
- A.6. Belgium
- A.7. France
- A.8. England and Wales
- A.9. Germany
- Bibliography
- List of EC Legislation
- Summary
- Samenvatting
- Curriculum vitae