Scope The Scope of the SC is to analyze and evaluate the different approaches and solutions and their impact on the power supply performance in support of the traditional economists, planners and operators within the industry as well as new actors such as regulators, traders and independent power producers (IPP's). In particular, areas to be covered are : Market structures and products such as physical and financial markets and the interaction between them, contracts, internationally integrated markets. Techniques and tools to support market actors such as demand and price forecasting, profit estimation, financial risk management etc Regulation and legislation such as regulation objectives, extension and limits, price regulation of transmission and ancillary services, international harmonization, environmental and reliability objectives etc