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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A further step towards an integrated European electricity market. Following the successful completion of technical readiness, the go-live of the Interim Coupling project is confirmed for 17 June 2021 (first delivery day 18 June 2021). The Interim Coupling project aims to connect the 4M MC (Czech-Slovak-Hungarian-Romanian market coupling) with the Multi-Regional Coupling (MRC) by...

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PSE informs that pursuant to Article 19.1.1.6 of the Regulation implementing Conditions for cross-zonal capacity allocation and other necessary mechanisms to support operation of more than one NEMO in Poland (MNA Regulation), amends the MNA Regulation by: revision of the main part of the MNA Regulation, revision of the Appendix 2: “Single Day-Ahead Operational Procedures” and Appendix...

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PSE and Litgrid, transmission system operators of Poland and Lithuania, both have made the final investment decisions on the implementation phase of the Harmony Link interconnector project, a submarine power cable line between Poland and Lithuania. The investment decisions, in accordance with the signed cooperation agreements, start the implementation phase of the project. In particular, they enable...

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The Nominated Electricity Market Operators (NEMOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs) from Austria, Germany, Poland and the 4M Market Coupling (4M MC) countries, namely the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, hereby inform stakeholders about the completion of the SDAC Simulation testing which was organized between 17.-26.05.2021. The aim of this phase was to test the integration of Interim Coupling borders into...

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Over the years, the number of coupled countries and consequently the number of parties and systems involved in the Single Day-Ahead Coupling (SDAC) has increased enormously. As a result, the market coupling process and especially, the calculation process, has become more complex. To secure that there is sufficient time for running the daily market coupling process, the National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) have approved the...

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The outage of the Belchatow power plant units, which occurred on May 17, 2021, has not caused any power shortages thus has gone unnoticed by customers. The outage was caused by disruption at the Rogowiec substation, to which 11 generating units of the Belchatow power plant, owned by PGE GiEK, are connected. The incident occurred at 4:34 p.m. CET. The prompt response of PSE staff allowed to restore Rogowiec substation operational capacity within an hour...

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On Monday, May 17, 2021, shortly after 4:30 p.m. CET, a disruption occurred at PSE’s Rogowiec substation. As a result of system protection actions, 10 generation units of the Belchatow power plant, owned by PGE GiEK, were automatically switched off leading to a loss of 3640 MW of generation. PSE immediately balanced the system among others by starting up generators at pumped storage power stations,...

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The aim of the Member Tests is to simulate production-like conditions to allow market participants to experience new market coupling procedures/processes and timings which will apply as of go-live of the DE-AT-PL-4MMC Coupling Project (also referred to as Interim Coupling or ICP), including Fallback procedures. During the Member Tests testing environments...

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The DE-AT-PL-4M MC project, aims to connect the borders of 4M MC with the Multi-Regional Coupling (MRC) by introducing Net Transmission Capacity based (NTC-based) implicit capacity allocation on six borders (PL-DE, PL-CZ, PL-SK, CZ-DE, CZ-AT, HU-AT). The launch of the project is targeted for 10 June 2021. It will mark the transition to a single coupled auction for the day-ahead market across the countries covered by MRC and 4M...

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On 18th March 2021, a remote meeting between the Baltic Sea region transmission system operators (TSOs) was held to address issues of mutual interest as well as to exchange views on ongoing energy projects in the field. Key topics of the meeting were: status updates on general questions such as national electricity systems developments; information regarding more regional questions –...

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