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Electricity Regional InitiativeCentral Eastern European Region

Draft Report on Transparency for the CEE-Region

Dr. Frank-Peter HansenBundesnetzagentur

CEE Stakeholder Group MeetingNovember 7th, 2007

2 ERI Central Eastern EuropeCEE Stakeholder Group Meeting, 7th November 2007

Framework for the report

• Based on

• Congestion Management Guidelines

• ERGEG GGP-IMT

• Goal: Implementation of Congestion Management Guidelines (cf. chapter 5)

• Special national obligations of publication are not considered in this report


List of definitions

• Five chapters on different topics• Load• Transmission and Interconnectors• Generation• Balancing • Wholesale Market

• In most cases obligation of publication according to chapter 5 of the Congestion Management Guidelines

• Otherwise voluntary publication is proposed (e. g. data on wholesale market)


Location of publication

• General rule: publication on a common TSO website envisaged

• Obligation to publish is on TSOs

• ETSOVista as option

• Information could be published at websites of PEX, but

• no voluntary publication scheme, i.e. information about all power plants > 100 MW is published

• open to all market participants, not only participants of PEX


Data Provision

• TSO is responsible for publication

• Market participants obliged to provide TSOs with relevant data

• Provision of data of market participants not connected to TSOs grid• Data available to DSOs• Obligation of DSOs to provide TSOs with this data• Enforceable by NRAs or other competent authority


Implementation schedule (1/2)

Publication on national homepages of TSOs (power exchanges)

• load• transmission and interconnection• balancing

• generation

until March 1st, 08

until January 1st, 09


Implementation schedule (2/2)

Publication on common European website (e.g. ETSO Vista)

• load• transmission and

interconnection• balancing

• Voluntary publication of information regarding

wholesale markets

until January 1st, 09


Legal issues

• Transparency Report is not a legal act by itself

• BUT:

• Demonstrates common interpretation of CEE NRAs concerning transparency rules of binding Congestion Management Guidelines (cf. chapter 5)

• Compliance with these guidelines will be monitored on basis of this common interpretation


Public consultation

• Public consultation of CEE Transparency Report

• Started beginning of October

• Ended October 31st, 2007

• Comments received: 13

• 4 TSOs

• 3 generators

• 1 cartel office


Topics addressed 1/2

• Data confidentiality

• Aggregation per bidding area/ control area does not prevent disclosing of business secrets in some small CEE markets

• No publication of disaggregated values concerning consumption units

• Surveillance/ sanctions

• Both are seen necessary to further functioning of markets


Topics addressed 2/2

• Detailed proposals

• on generation (e.g. no publication of ex post values unit by unit)

• on balancing (e.g. concerning responsibility for publication: TSO or Market Operator?)

• Transparency should be harmonized within Europe

• No excessive demands from TSOs and DSOs

• Transparency is not to be confused with market surveillance


Further steps in the CEE - Region

• Evaluation of the comments by stakeholders provided in November 2007

• Discussion of open issues in IG Transparency (December 4th, 2007)

• Finalisation and publication of the Report early 2008


Thank you for your attention!

Dr. Frank-Peter Hansen

Head of Section

Transmission Network Access and Cross-border Trade in Electricity

Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railways

Tulpenfeld 4, 53113 Bonn

Tel: +49-228-14-5900

E-mail: [email protected]

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