Nordic Electricity Market Actors: The Nordic power system needs a single system operator

The common Nordic power market started to evolve a decade ago and has mainly been a success, due to cooperation between the Nordic Transmission System Operators (TSOs) and the establishment of Nord Pool. The power system is more efficient than what isolated, national markets otherwise would have been. This is of value for the consumers and the society as a whole and a prerequisite to obtain the three main political goals for the power sector: Security of Supply, Sustainability and Competitive power prices.However, there is still considerable potential for improvement, through harmonized