ELECTRICITY SPOT MARKET WITH TRANSMISSION LOSSES

In order to study deregulated electricity spot markets, various models have been proposed. Most of them correspond to a, so-called, multi- leader-follower game in which an Independent System Operator (ISO) plays a central role. Our aim in this paper is to consider quadratic bid functions together with the transmission losses in the multi-leader-follower game. Under some reasonable assumptions we deduce qualitative properties for the ISO's problem. In the two islands type market, the explicit formulae for the optimal solutions of the ISO's problem are obtained and we show the existence of an equilibrium