Driving forces for future work

The priorities of certain Technical Directions referred to important emerging factors that will influence and define new requirements on the System Operation performance. These directions are:

· Integration of regional and national grids into large open markets
· Management of generation capacity and energy shortages
· Management of capacity shortages
· Impact from new sources of dispersed generation and related system requirements
· Influence from customer needs and response
· Interaction between open market trading mechanisms and power system operation in congestion and transit flow management
· Integration of information and communication technology