Congestion definition

Congestion means a situation where the demand for transmission capacity exceeds the available transfer capability
Congestion means a situation in which all requests from market participants to trade between network areas cannot be accommodated because they would significantly affect the physical flows on network elements which cannot accommodate those flows;
Congestion means a situation where traffic volumes approach or exceed road capacity;

Examples of Congestion in a sentence

  • The core programs includes: Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement (CMAQ) Program, Highway Bridge Program (HBP), Interstate Maintenance (IM), National Highway System (NHS), and Surface Transportation Program (STP).

  • Firm Point‑To‑Point Transmission Service is service for which the Transmission Customer has agreed to pay the Congestion associated with its service.

  • Pursuant to ISO Procedures, each Transaction offered in the Energy, Installed Capacity, Ancillary Services or Transmission Congestion Contract market shall be subject to a minimum size of one (1) megawatt (“MW”), provided however, Regulation Service may be offered in tenths of a MW and provided further, pursuant to ISO Procedures, Special Case Resources may offer a minimum of 100 kW of Unforced Capacity in the Installed Capacity Market.

  • CARIS: The Congestion Assessment and Resource Integration Study for economic planning developed by the ISO in consultation with the Market Participants and other interested parties pursuant to Section 31.3 of this Attachment Y.

  • The ISO will post on the OASIS the statewide aggregate resources (Day-Ahead Energy schedules and total operating capability forecast), Day-Ahead scheduled Load, forecast Load for each Load Zone, and the Day-Ahead LBMP prices (including the Congestion Component and the Marginal Losses Component) for each Load Zone in each hour of the upcoming Dispatch Day.


More Definitions of Congestion

Congestion means a situation in which an interconnection linking national transmission networks cannot accommodate all physical flows resulting from international trade requested by market participants, because of a lack of capacity of the interconnectors and/or the national transmission systems concerned;
Congestion means congestion as defined in point (4) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943;
Congestion means a situation where the demand for transmission or distribution capacity exceeds the available transfer capacity;
Congestion means a situation in which all requests from market participants to trade between two bidding zones cannot be accommodated because they would significantly affect the physical flows on network elements which cannot accommodate those flows . an interconnection linking national transmission networks cannot accommodate all physical flows resulting from international trade requested by market participants, because of a lack of capacity of the interconnectors and/or the national transmission systems concerned;
Congestion means where the demand for transmission capacity exceeds the available transfer capacity.
Congestion means a situation in which⇨ all requests from market participants to
Congestion means a situation where the demand for transmission capacity exceeds the available transfer capacity, a condition that arises on the transmission system when one or more restrictions prevents the [economic dispatch] of electric energy from serving loads. Economic dispatch means meeting system demand at the lowest possible cost.