Electric and Gas Transmission Networks in the EU and in Russia: A Comparison
Article from: OGEL 4 (2003), in Electricity Law and Regulation
Summary
In the Russian Federation there is an intensive programme of electric sector restructuring and a modest programme of natural gas market opening. Both the electric sector and the gas sector contain infrastructure that was originally designed and built for a centrally planned economy with a centralised dispatch system. Although this infrastructure can support an electricity market and a natural gas market, the task of designing these markets requires a fresh look at the concept of access to the transmission network and access to upstream pipeline networks. It appears that the electric sector ...