Of the findings, the European Commission established in its report on Energy Sector Inquiry, market manipulation constituted a major concern for the functioning and integrity of EU energy sectors. The Commission argued that the responsibility for high prices in wholesale energy markets could be attributed to manipulative practices of energy incumbents and the trust in the operation of operation of sector was largely compromised, due to these practices. Remedies, EU competition law provided, were considered as insufficient to resolve these shortcomings and thus should be supplemented with regulatory-based tools. The findings of the Energy Sector Inquiry and subsequent consultation documents by multiple EU institutions paved the way for the adoption of the Regulation on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency, REMIT, which incorporated into an anti-manipulation rule, specifically designed to prohibit and prosecute manipulative practices in EU wholesale energy markets. Nevertheless, as EU case law on market manipulation has yet to develop and there are uncertainties with respect to the concept of market manipulation. Furthermore REMIT does not preclude the jurisdiction of EU competition law, questions arise as to the scope and the extent of the application of this prohibition. Throughout its chapters, this book explores the scope of and the case law on market manipulation to determine what types of market practices are regarded as manipulative and thus prohibited under anti-manipulation rules. It also focuses on the interplay between REMIT and EU competition law and evaluates factors and circumstances that determine when and what market misconduct can be subject to enforcement proceedings under both anti-manipulation and antitrust rules. As the development of a single, coherent, rulebook that can be relied upon by market participant is fundamental for the functioning of EU wholesale energy markets, the book, finally, provides proposals and measures that can mitigate and resolve the legal uncertainties regarding the regulatory framework REMIT established.

Este trabalho propõe estudos de casos em sistemas de energia elétrica por meio do Fluxo de Potência Ótimo (FPO) e da Análise de Sensibilidade em diferentes cenários de operação. Para isso, foram obtidos dados teóricos, a partir de levantamento bibliográfico, que explicitaram os conceitos de otimização aplicados ao sistema estático de energia elétrica. A pesquisa fundamentou-se metodologicamente no método primal-dual barreira logarítmica e nas condições necessárias de primeira-ordem de Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) para o problema de FPO, e no teorema proposto por Fiacco (1976) para a Análise de Sensibilidade. Os sistemas de equações resultantes das condições de estacionaridade, da função Lagrangiana, foram resolvidos pelo método de Newton. Na implementação computacional foram usadas técnicas de esparsidade. Estudos de casos foram realizados nos sistemas 3, IEEE 14, 30, 118, 300 barras e no equivalente CESP 440 kV com 53 barras, em que foi verificada a eficiência das técnicas apresentadas. / This work proposes a study of cases in power systems by Optimal Power Flow (OPF) and Sensitivity Analysis in different operation scenarios. For this purpose, theoretical data were obtained, starting from a bibliographical review, which enlightened the optimization concepts applied to the static system of electrical energy. The research was methodologically based on the primal-dual logarithmic barrier method and in the first-order necessary Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions to the OPF problem and in the theorem proposed by Fiacco (1976) to the Sensitivity Analysis. The equation sets generated by the first-order necessary conditions of the Lagrangian function, were solved by Newton\'s method. In the computational implementation, sparsity techniques were used. Studies of cases were carried out in the 3, IEEE 14, 30, 118, 300 buses and in the equivalent CESP 440 kV 53 bus, where the efficiency of the presented techniques was verified.