Liberalization and modernization of power systems

The International Workshop on Liberalization and Modernization of Power Systems: Operation and Control Problems was held at the Energy Systems Institute, Irkutsk, Russia, 1-4 August 2000. The workshop was organized by the Energy Systems Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the University of Dortmund, Germany, and the IEEE PES Russia and Germany Chapters. Twenty-eight presentations on this subject were debated during the workshop. Over 50 delegates from Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Poland, Slovenia, and China attended. This international workshop was supported by Russian Foundation of Basic Researches and the German Research Council. The high standard of the papers, their presentations, and the technical discussions that followed were particularly gratifying. Many problems were discussed during three workshop sessions in the following areas:  Energy market deregulation  Modeling and simulation in the energy market environment  Modern information technologies in the energy market environment.