Workshop on Transmission Grid and Wholesale Electricity Market Operation for Georgian TSO GSE

EKC, with the support of the World Bank, organized a study tour for senior management of National Transmission Company GSE (Georgia), to gain experience on how to modernize transmission grid and the electricity wholesale market to implement hourly trading and balancing market.

Presenters were experts and managers from:

• Electricity Coordinating Center (EKC)
• Elektromreža Srbije (EMS), Serbian TSO
• Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS), Serbian generation & distribution company

Topics of the workshop were:      

• Integration of European and SEE synchronous areas; UCTE and ENTSO-e, Connection of Turkey

• Organization of electricity sector in Europe and Serbia; European target model
• Congestion management and capacity allocation procedures in Europe and in Serbia
• Methodology for the compensation of transits (transit path, ITC)
• Balancing procedures, metering, accounting, customs and taxes
• Serbian power sector and future investments
• Investments in pump-storage projects
• Grid Connection procedures
• Software used for the TSO calculation and electricity market