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Fix the energy market
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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

The retail-market and consumer-facing layer.

Retail

Retail markets translate zonal wholesale prices into consumer tariffs.

Whether consumers experience locational wholesale variation depends on retail regulation and tariff design.

Distribution-level network conditions are not automatically included in the zonal wholesale signal.