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

  • Congestion Rents are collected by the ISO from Loads through its facilitation of the LBMP Market Transactions and the collection of Transmission Usage Charges from Bilateral Transactions, and paid to Primary Holders.

  • The short-run marginal cost also considers the impact of Out-of-Merit Generation (as measured by its Bid Price) resulting from the Congestion and Marginal Losses occurring on the NYS Transmission System which are associated with supplying an increment of Load.

  • The ISO shall settle Congestion Rents with the Primary Holder of each TCC.

  • The ISO also shall facilitate the financial Settlement of any Congestion Rents.

  • This information will include histograms of hourly MW flows and congestion costs and total monthly Congestion Costs by Interface.


More Definitions of Congestion

Congestion means congestion as defined in point (4) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943;
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 a situation in whichÐ 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 a situation where the demand for transmission or distribution capacity exceeds the available transfer capacity;
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 the level at which transportation system performance is no longer acceptable because of traffic interference. The level of acceptable system performance may vary by type of transportation facility, geographic location, or time of day.