Zonal configuration of energy market is often a consequence of political borders. However there are a few methods developed to help with zonal delimitation in respect to some measures. This paper presents the approach aiming at reduction of the loop flow effect – an element of unscheduled...

By means of a constructive example we show that clustering of Locational Marginal Prices (LMPs) might give unsatisfactory results of zonal division of energy market. Specifically, we find that the division obtained from clustering of LMPs in some cases may not place the congested lines on the...