South East Europe Electricity Roadmap (SEERMAP) Project

There is a pressing need to start developing concrete climate policies based on full alignment with the EU Climate acquis and GHG emission reduction target setting in the Support for Low Emission Development (SLED) in South Eastern Europe beneficiary countries (Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosna and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Romania, Kosovo*, Greece and Albania).

The following options were assessed in detail in this project in order to help to formulate medium and long term energy and decarbonisation strategies in the target countries:

• Energy efficiency improvements:
  • investing in existing power plants to increase efficiency;
  • accelerated retirement of old, less efficient fossil based power generation units and replacement with more efficient units;
  • reducing network losses;
• Reducing carbon content of fuels:
  • fuel switching
  • increase in the share of renewable based electricity generation (RES-E)
• Network developments to support an increased share of renewable energy and reduce reliance on high carbon national resources.

Once, when the necessary database is created for the modelling, the next task is to set up the realistic policy scenarios that can drive the assessed countries on their decarbonisation path. These scenarios will be determined via a multi-stage consultation process where local policy makers and experts will give a ‘reality check’ on the constructed scenarios.

Type of services provided:

• Load flow calculation
• Losses assessment
• Evaluation of Net Transfer Capacity (NTC)
• Proposal of network development project in order to resolve network congestions due to the new RES generation