CAO is starting the market participants’ registration for the CEE yearly auction 2011 on 24 November 2010. Offered capacities for the yearly auction will be published by 30 November 2010. The deadline for submission of bids for the yearly auction for physical transmission rights for 2011 is 7 December 2010, 12:00 (noon). The results will be published by 8 December 2010, 15:00. Offered capacities for the monthly auction for January will be published by 9 December 2010. The deadline for submission of bids for the monthly auction for January is 16 December...

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In March this year Polish and Swedish transmission system operators, PSE Operator and Svenska Kraftnät (SvK), signed a joint declaration to work for a market opening of SwePol Link, the 600 MW HVDC cable between the two countries, as soon as possible. The declaration was welcomed by the regulatory authorities in Poland and Sweden, who will supervise the process. An important step in achieving this will be the creation of a model for the Nordic...

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Due to the implementation of the new cross border scheduling principles planned for 1 September 2010, PSE Operator will update the specification of EDI standards (WIRE Standards) according to the requirements of FBA method. Therefore it will be necessary to ensure that the WIRE/UR systems of the Scheduling Coordinators (Operatorzy Rynku - OR) are consistent with the new WIRE Standards. The acceptance tests will be conducted using the test environments of the Scheduling Coordinators and TSO. It is also...

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Transmission System Operators 50Hertz and PSE Operator S.A. agree on action plan / Increase in line capacity between Krajnik and Vierraden through conversion from 220 to 380 kilovolts on its way and installation of Phase Shifter Transformers in substations Krajnik and Mikułowa/ Important stimulus for further development of a single European electricity market. Berlin/Warsaw — The development of the single European...

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Eleven companies responsible for providing a safe electricity supply to 170 million European citizens commit to further improve security of electricity supply across Europe Growing operational needs throughout Central Europe in the context of the integration of wind power, increased cross-border trading and electricity transport. New real-time Telepresence system to be introduced amongst Control Centres On 13 November 2009 eleven CEOs of...

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According to a decision from the 20 th Implementation Group Meeting in CEE, the CEE TSOs were requested to organize capacity auctions for the phase of 1 st of January 2010 till the time when Flow Based Allocation method will start (‘interim phase’) in a way, that formats of communication and other principles should not change in comparison to the set-up in 2009.

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Set of core documents for CEE capacity allocation published by CAO / Workshops organized to best prepare stakeholders to the implementation of the method / Interim solution under preparation to cope with the request of market participants to postpone the start of flow-based allocation in the CEE region The Central Allocation Office (CAO) which implements the new capacity allocation method for Central-Eastern Europe and...

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By signing a Letter of Intent in Brussels on 23 September 2009, PSE Operator S.A. and Vattenfall Europe Transmission (VE Transmission) scheduled all necessary steps directed to setting up a joint Project Development Company (PDC) to construct a third interconnector between the Polish and German electricity systems. Initiated by the Polish and German governments, this third link between Poland and Germany has met with widespread support from the EU...

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German Transmission System Operators (TSO) share their wind related data with all partners of the TSO Security Cooperation All wind data (forecast and near-to-realtime data) available to 11 TSOs in Central Europe since August 2009 Next milestone of TSC reached - after launch of Real-time Awareness and Alarm system (RAAS) and start of tendering for IT platform for data exchange and security...

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IT platform ensures performance jump to perform better security assessments in Central Europe IT platform to be operational mid 2010 IT platform next step, after launch of Real-time Awareness and Alarming system On July 31st 2009, TSO Security Cooperation (TSC) has launched the tendering process for a common European IT platform for data exchange and common security assessments. This will help to...

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Cooperation of eleven European TSOs sets milestone to strengthen system security Online system monitoring of Central Europe \"TSO RAAS\" now operational Global view of the status of the electricity system real-time available in 11 control centres TSO Security Cooperation (TSC) has now successfully launched a real-time monitoring system in Central Europe. RAAS, the TSO Real-time Awareness and Alarming System, provides a global view of the...

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High interest of electricity market participants in the new international capacity allocation method / Stakeholders got acquainted with methods / Common solution to foster market development for Central-East Europe should go live before the end of 2009 On 12 May 2009, the CAO Central Allocation Office GmbH (CAO) and the Transmission System Operators (TSOs) of Central-Eastern Europe (CEE) invited stakeholders interested in the transmission capacity allocation to a workshop in Munich, taking place under the...

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CAO Central Allocation Office GmbH (CAO), in cooperation with the TSOs of Central-Eastern Europe, invites stakeholders interested in the CEE transmission capacity allocation to the first workshop on May 12, 2009 in Munich under the auspices of the national regulators of the involved countries. Stakeholders and market participants will become acquainted with the principles of the new capacity allocation solution. The European electricity market is currently developing in seven European regions in...

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Successful cooperation between the two TSO goes ahead / Phase-shifter installation in Polish substations / Construction of third interconnector projected On 3rd March 2009 the Management Boards of the Transmission System Operators (TSO) Vattenfall Europe Transmission GmbH and PSE Operator S.A. met in Konstancin-Jeziorna (near Warsaw) to evaluate the outcome of the mutual cooperation to date and to define plans for the future. Topics identified for deeper cooperation included...

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Berlin, 22 December 2008 - Transmission System Operators (TSO) Verbund APG, TIWAG-Netz, VKW Netz (Austria), swissgrid (Switzerland), EnBW Transportnetze, E.ON Netz, RWE TSO, VE Transmission (Germany), TenneT TSO (The Netherlands), PSE Operator (Poland) and ČEPS (Czech Republic) launch an initiative to foster regional European cooperation for system security. The involved TSOs (covering an area with 170 million European citizens) agreed to start up a \"TSO System Security Cooperation\" with the aim to build up...

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On the 21st of November 2008, the Supervisory Board, in the accordance to the shareholders nominations, has appointed the Management Board of LitPol Link. Mr Jaroslav Neverovic has been appointed the CEO of LitPol Link. Mr Neverovic graduated from Warsaw School of Economics (Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie) in 2001 receiving a Master of Science degree in International Economic and...

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During the second Stakeholder Meeting for the Polish — German TEN-Projects on the 24 th of October 2008 in the headquarters of PSE-Operator in Konstancin — Jeziorna, two agreements were signed by Polish Transmission System Operator PSE-Operator and German Transmission Operator VE-Transmission: a Memorandum of Understanding and a Operational System Agreement. EU Coordinators, the Polish and German...

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Foundation Charter of the Common allocation office for Central East Europe (CAO) signed on 17 July by 8 TSOs The European electricity market is currently divided into seven European regions in order to enhance the Internal European Electricity Market by fostering market developments firstly at a regional level. One of these regions is Central-Eastern Europe (CEE) which includes Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. The eight transmission system operators (TSOs) Verbund —...

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Communique of the Transmission System Operator of 19 May 2008 on the Publishing of an English Version of a Standard Annex to the Electrical Power Transmission Services Agreement with a Business Partner such as an Electrical Power Turnover Enterprise The Transmission System Operator (OSP) hereby informs that on 19 May 2008 the following documents were published in an English version on PSE-Operator S.A.\'s website at the following address: www.pse.pl : a Standard Annex to the Electrical Power...

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PSE-Operator acting as a Transmission System Operator in Poland (TSO) is responsible for providing safe operation of Polish Power System (PPS). Efficient performance of this duty requires, during the process of decision making related to available to market participants levels of export transmission capacities, to take also into consideration, in parallel to the conditions of operations of the grid, the projected balance of domestic...

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