ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the monitors and their screening effects in one control room of an electricity distribution company in Finland. It discusses the different kinds of expertise and risk techniques in two neighbouring electricity control rooms and asks how markets and security are enacted in each respective site by control room technicians. The chapter wants to compare, on the one hand, how material flows of electricity are monitored and made tangible in the two control rooms and, on the other hand, how the electricity flows themselves are controlled and steered to minimize risks. The European Union's first 1996 electricity market directive, enacting common rules to complete a single electricity market in Europe, had provisions on unbundling: all EU member states were to have separate accounting for electricity generation, transmission, and distribution in electricity companies. The Finnish Electricity Market Act was amended in 2004 with unbundling in view.
