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Zonal Marginal Pricing

A wholesale architecture in which electricity is priced within geographic bidding zones, inter-zonal congestion affects market prices and residual internal congestion is managed through redispatch.

Solution section

Retail & Demand-Side Coordination

How consumers, retailers, aggregators and flexible demand respond to the architecture.

Retail & Demand-Side Coordination

Retail arrangements generally sit outside the zonal market-coupling mechanism.

Consumers may face:

  • fixed retail prices;
  • time-of-use prices;
  • dynamic retail prices;
  • aggregator propositions.

A retail price can expose the zonal wholesale signal, but local distribution constraints still require additional treatment.