Coordinated spot market for congestion management of inter-regional electricity markets

The rapid growth of inter-regional trading among electricity markets requires the development of new market-oriented mechanisms for the inter-regional congestion management of such trading. In this paper, we deal with the operation of power systems consisting of several interconnected electricity markets. We propose an alternative approach to inter-regional trade that avoids the flaws of forward markets with explicit auctioning of interconnections capacities. We propose the integration of a forward market with a balancing (spot) market for inter-regional exchanges based on nodal pricing. The interaction of transmission system operators (TSOs) belonging to adjacent markets is efficiently taken into account through a decentralized optimal power flow (OPF), which is solved by interior point methods.