Financial Transmission Rights: Analysis, Experiences and Prospects

Whilst financial rights have appeared as a successful ingredient in North-American power markets, they have their shortcomings both theoretically and in practice. Financial Transmission Rights: Analysis, Experiences and Prospects present a systematic and comprehensive overview of financial transmission rights (FTRS).

Following a general introduction to FTRs, including chapters to explain transmission pricing and the general properties of FTRS, experts in the field provide discussions on wide scope of topics. These include:

Varying perspectives on FTRS: from electrical engineers to economists,

Different mathematical formulations of FTRS

Financial Hedging using FTRS, and

Alternative solutions to FTRs

The detail, expertise and range of content makes Financial Transmission Rights: Analysis, Experiences and Prospect an essential resource for electricity market specialists both at academic and professional levels.

“This is THE BOOK we were all expecting to address all key ‘Financial Transmission Rights’ issues. It is comprehensive and reader friendly. You can pick at will in its menu: more or less theory, a bit of maths or none, empirical review of real cases or numerical simulations of many feasible options. Big names rally there to delight you like: Hogan , Oren, Perez-Arriaga, Smeers, Hobbs and… Rosellón. More than a must read: a light house, a map and a survival kit.”

Jean – Michel Glachant, Director Florence School, Holder Loyola de Palacio Chair, Chief-editor Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy.

"In the last two decades, economists have developed a better understanding of the impact of financial rights on risk management, market power and network expansion in electricity markets, while power systems have experimented with such rights. Striking a good balance between academics and practitioners, always at the frontier of the field, written by the best experts, this volume is essential reading for all those- power systems’ managers and users, regulators, students and researchers- who want to understand the new electricity environment and predict its evolution."

Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics and Institute for Industrial Economics (IDEI)

Further comments inside.

Dr. Tarjei Kristiansen is Head of Power Market Analysis at SN Power Brazil. Prior to joining SN Power he was a Vice President with JP Morgan in London and responsible for German and Nordic power market analysis. Dr. Kristiansen has also worked for the trading company RBS Sempra Commodities, the utility Statkraft and KEMA Consulting in its markets and regulation team. Dr. Kristiansen holds an MSc in Physics from the University of Oslo and a PhD in Electrical Power Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He completed the Fellows Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His PhD focused on risk management associated with transmission congestion including financial transmission rights. He frequently publishes papers on European electricity markets, modeling and financial transmission rights in the US. When he is not analysing and modelling electricity markets, he spends time jogging or reading finance. He can be reached at Tarjei_Kristiansen_2003@alumni.ksg.harvard.edu.

Juan Rosellón is tenured Professor at the Department of Economics of the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, and Senior Researcher at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW-Berlin). He has been Visiting Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin (2010-2011), the Technische Universität Dresden (2007-2010), and the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University (2002-2005). Professor Rosellón has published extensively on incentive mechanisms to regulate restructured electricity and natural gas markets, including price-cap methodologies to promote infrastructure investment and addressing strategic behavior by participants with market power. He is member of the Editorial Board of Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, and is the Editor of Economía Mexicana, Nueva Época. Professor Rosellón has been awarded with a Marie-Curie Fellowship from the European Union (2012), the 4^th Reimut Jochimsen Prize by the Deutsche Bundesbank (2009), a Georg Forster Fellowship by the Humboldt Foundation (2008), and a Repsol-YPF-Harvard-Kennedy-School Fellowship (2003). He holds a Ph.D in Economics from Rice University (1993). Email address: juan.rosellon@cide.edu; jrosellon@diw.de