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Towards a common co-ordinated regional
congestion management method –
comments to ETSO-EuroPEX report
report
Ms Asta Sihvonen-Punkka
Chair of the ERGEG
Electricity Focus Group
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Florence 24-25 November 2008
ERGEG comments to ETSO-EuroPEX presentation
Structure of presentation
 Background
 The ETSO/EuroPEX assignment
 Consentec report
 Implementation issues and challenges
 Next steps
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The assignment from the Florence Forum
 The Forum requested ETSO and EuroPEX to write a
common discussion paper to address the
implementation of regional and inter-regional capacity
allocation methods, in particular the governance of
the bodies running the system, and to address the
technical, legal and commercial challenges implied by
the Consentec target model.
 Other stakeholders were invited to contribute to the
discussion and to take particular account of the work
done by EFET so far
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The target model by Consentec (within region)
 Market coupling is the preferred solution for capacity
day-ahead allocation, with explicit auctions as an
alternative in cases where the prerequisites for
market coupling are not yet fulfilled
 Flow-based allocation on yearly, monthly, daily and,
prospectively, intraday levels
 Improvement of commercial conditions for physical
forward transmission rights
 Secondary market for transmission rights
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Inter-regional coordination of DA allocation
Region 1
Region 2
Implicit auction
Implicit auction
Hierarchical
coupling
Explicit auction
Coordination through
overlapping country
Merger
Explicit auction
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ETSO/EuroPEX report
 Implicit auctions for day-ahead timeframe
 Options for integrating day-ahead markets
 A Unified Pan-European Solution
 Horizontal Integration (regions merging or extending)
 Dome Coupling (pragmatic approach)
 Should it be Top Down or Bottom Up?
 Which capacity models?
 Forward market and intraday market?
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Middle step – coordinating explicit auctions
 Requirements from the CM Guidelines  regional
coordination of congestion management
 Development to proceed with coordinated explicit
auctions through establishing single auction
platforms in various regions (CEE, CSE)
 Important to implement the requirements through the
projects; they should be completed ASAP
 Need for coherent solutions, especially for the
overlapping countries
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Extending implicit auctions – How should dayahead markets be integrated?
 So far market splitting/coupling has been introduced
to market areas where explicit auctions have
previously been used (TLC, Mibel) or to couple an
area applying implicit auctions with an area with
explicit auctions (Nord Pool and Germany)
 No practical experience of the proposed options
 Horizontal integration?
 Dome coupling seems to be a practical way if the PXs
and their tasks need to remain as intact as possible
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Challenges
 The current legislation (Regulation and CM GL) leaves
lot of freedom for practical implementation (explicit
and implicit auctions in all timeframes)
 What are the right market regions? Implementing
implicit auctions does not allow overlapping countries
as defined in the present CM Guidelines
 Ensuring the compatibility of regional congestion
management methods across the regions
(coordinated explicit auctions and neighbouring
implicit auctions) during middle step
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Next steps
 More detailed evaluation of the three options
including governance and complementing the report
with analysis on forward markets, intraday and
balancing
 Top Down and Bottom Up: division of issues into two
groups: those requiring Top Down approach and
those that can be left to regional subsidiarity subject
to European compatibility
 A roadmap showing steps for integrating day-ahead
markets and regions (e.g. on the basis of cost-benefit
analysis on extending implicit auctions)
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Thank You
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