Activities
2 Days Ahead
The format of the European electricity market is going through a phase of regional consolidation. Seven regions have been set up.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on 6 June 2007 by the German, Belgian, French, Luxembourg and Dutch governments and the concerned actors (TSOs, power exchanges, regulators, market players) to support the regional Central Western Europe regional initiative.
The MoU includes provision for the development of market mechanisms, notably extending market coupling arrangements to the entire zone, using a new method based on physical electricity flows (flow based market coupling).
In this framework, the Transmission System Operators (TSOs) have decided to launch a common project, to design and set up a technical coordinated process related to market coupling. Available Transfer Capacity (ATC) based and Flow-Based projects are the parts of the project, that should lead to the regional market coupling in 2010 (first ATC-based).
The technical data needed are based on CWE-wide files called D2CF (Day 2 Ahead Congestion Forecast), which are the results of single (corresponding to one TSO) D2CF files merged together. CORESO has a major position in this process by providing the merging service.
Each day, CORESO receives files representing the best two-days forecast of each TSO (namely ELIA, RTE, TenneT B.V) and German files provided by Amprion, and merges them before making results available for the different actors.
As the overall D-2 process is at an experimentation stage, CORESO has also become the preferred partner concerning merging activity feedback: data gathering and analysing the complete process performance, participation in feedback meetings, etc.
Through this project, CORESO becomes one of the main players in regional grid security assessment in the context of the Central Western Europe initiative, and actively participates in the fluidisation of cross-border power exchanges.
