Nominated Electricity Market Operators (NEMOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs) from 4th Wave go-live countries have arranged this pre-launch event to provide a comprehensive and informative opportunity to learn more about the SIDC (formerly XBID) solution and arrangements for the 4th Wave. The pre-launch event is free of charge and will be held as a web...

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Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne S.A. with its registered office in Konstancin-Jeziorna, acting as the operator within the Act of 8 December 2017 on Capacity Market (i.e. Journal of Laws of 2021, item 1854, hereinafter referred to as the "Act"), according to Section 5.2.2.3 of the Capacity Market Rules, announces: start date and time of the pre-auction for the main auction for delivery...

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Flow-Based Market Coupling mechanism optimises day-ahead European electricity market for 13 countries. Today, the 16 Transmission System Operators (TSOs) of the Core Capacity Calculation Region (Core CCR), together with 10 Nominated Electricity Market Operators (NEMOs), introduced the Core Flow-Based Day-ahead Market Coupling. Having a harmonized capacity calculation methodology in place in the Core CCR makes the...

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AST, Elering, Litgrid and PSE, the electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) of the Baltic countries and Poland, signed the grant agreement with the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) for EUR 170 million of EU support which will help to finance the planned investments under the project Phase 2 part II of the Baltic Synchronisation. The grant agreements assume the financial contributions of the following amounts: Polish PSE – EUR 75 million, Latvian...

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We would like to invite you to the first Market Coupling Consultative Group meeting, where NEMOs, TSOs and market participants can discuss and share views on the ongoing works related to the design, development, implementation, and operation of SDAC and SIDC. A Q&A session is planned after each topic, where you can ask related questions from the experts. read more...

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With great pleasure the Core Flow-Based Market Coupling project parties announce that the project finished all main deliverables and initiated the final preparations towards the go live of the Core Flow-Based Market Coupling on 08/06/2022, first trading day for delivery on 09/06/2022. The design and procedures are now fully tested, and all required contracts are concluded as well. Project parties are confident to provide a robust and stable system. ...

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PSE is hosting the 3rd edition of the Cybersecurity Conference for the Energy Sector (CC4ES). The conference will take place on June 21-23, 2022 at the Holiday Inn Warszawa Józefów Hotel. Some of the activities will also be available online. The objective of the conference is to present research results, best practices, and current trends in ensuring cybersecurity and preventing...

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The Market Coupling Steering Committee (MCSC) initiated an in-depth investigation of the partial decoupling on the 10 of May During the market coupling process on 10 May a technical issue was experienced that led to a partial decoupling. Country/Bidding zone decoupled from a market point of view from SDAC: Slovakia. Order book decoupled from the SDAC process: OKTE. The following interconnectors were decoupled from SDAC: CZ-SK, SK-HU,...

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As communicated earlier, the planned go-live of 20 April 2022 for Core Flow Based Day Ahead Market Coupling was not supported by some Core TSOs and NEMOs. Read more...

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Core project parties concluded that the Core go-live planned for 20 April 2022 must be postponed as a go-live on this date could not be supported by some Core project parties. Market Coupling processes are prepared and Core joint project parties are technically ready in the preparation of their local and central systems and expect to finish remaining activities (last required tests and bilateral...

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On Wednesday, January 26, the coordinating committee of the key EU fund for infrastructure Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) evaluated in its final selection process and approved the proposal submitted by the Baltic and Polish transmission system operators, granting EUR 170 million financial assistance to a range of projects as part of the synchronisation of the Baltic States with the Continental European Synchronous Area (CESA). ...

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Last Saturday, 4 December, Litgrid and PSE, the operators of the Lithuanian and Polish electricity transmission systems, carried out the emergency support test on the Polish-Lithuanian interconnection. The test was aimed at verification of Lithuanian system restoration and black-start capabilities using the interconnection together with newly installed autotransformers in Alytus substation. The emergency support test simulated a situation...

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Due to low wind generation as well as unavailability of a number of thermal power plants due to forced outages and planned maintenance on 6 December 2021, difficulties in balancing the Polish power system were identified. Inadequacy concerned the inability to meet the required level of operational generation reserves. Considering that the shortage of operational reserves was...

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MARI and PICASSO projects in collaboration with ENTSO-E are organising a public online workshop on 2 December 2021. The workshop which will cover: General information and recap of platform design, including pricing; Preparation of Go-live, including Accession Roadmap, Transparency and Reporting. MARI and PICASSO are the TSOs’ projects for establishing...

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Transmission system operators (TSO) from the Baltic States: Litgrid (Lithuania), AST (Latvia), Elering (Estonia) and from Poland (PSE), today submitted a joint application for funding from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). Four TSOs request a financial support for the investments of Baltic Synchronisation project Phase 2 part II which are crucial for secure and stable synchronisation of Baltic power systems with the Continental...

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In order to prepare market participants for the Core Day Ahead Flow-Based go-live, Core Flow-Based Market Coupling project parties will organise an online workshop on 22 November 2021. This workshop will mainly focus on the basics of flow-based capacity calculation and has the aim to inform market participants that are new to the subject. The webinar will be held on 22 November 2021 ...

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PSE S.A. published a document entitled: “Guideline on participation in Polish capacity market for foreign capacity providers”. Document describes the main rules regarding the participation of foreign capacity providers in the Polish capacity market. Within the document, one can find useful information on: accessing the capacity market register, collateral establishment, manner of participation in the pre-auction, ...

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Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne S.A. with its registered office in Konstancin-Jeziorna, acting as the operator within the Act of 8 December 2017 on Capacity Market (i.e. Journal of Laws of 2020, item 247 as amended, hereinafter referred to as the "Act"), according to point 5.2.2.3 of the Capacity Market Rules, announce: start date and time of the pre-auction for the main auction for...

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On July 3, 2021 an amendment to the Energy Law Act came into force introducing the Energy Market Information Operator (OIRE). This function will be performed by PSE, Polish transmission system operator, which will implement and then manage the Central Energy Market Information System (CSIRE). CSIRE will collect and process energy market data necessary for the administration of...

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g phase The 4MMC countries’ day-ahead market is now integrated in the Pan-European day-ahead power market. The project parties of the Interim Coupling are pleased to announce the successful go-live of the Interim Coupling solution. On 17 June 2021, for the first time, day-ahead cross-zonal capacity on the 6 new borders (PL-DE, PL-CZ, PL-SK, CZ-DE, CZ-AT, HU-AT) has been implicitly allocated via the...

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