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ERGEG Northern Europe Regional Initiative
Welcome to Stakeholder meeting (Miniforum) 27th
June 2006
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The road to ERI

• 1st Northern Europe Miniforum Helsinki, January
  2005
• CEER/ERGEG/Commission Regional focus
• ERGEG Electricity Regional Initiative

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Some general observations

• ERI in order to speed up market integration
• ERI is an ERGEG initiative backed by Commission
  and EU politicians (European Council and Energy
  Councils)
• Regulatory authorities role Catalysts not
  legislators!
• A continous dynamic process also between
  Stakeholder Meetings

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Northern Europe Region- Some basic
considerations -

• Focus on promoting practical implementation
• Be so specific as possible
• Limited number of parallel tasks
• Stakeholder involvement not too many meetings ?
  Simple organisational set-up
• Succes Integrating competitive markets as
• quick as possible
• - independtly of who is the cause of
• the succes

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Northern Europe Region - Organisational set-up -

• Regional Coordination Committee (RCC) Regulatory
  authorities DGTREN observers Baltic and
  Dutch regulators
• Continuous stakeholder-involvement - primarily
  on a national/bilateral basis- with internal
  associations lead regulator
• Implementation groups on specific
  topicsReg.auts. TSOs stakeholders ad hoc
  invited
• Multilateral involvemet of stakeholders in
  Stakeholder Meetings Broad participation

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Northern Europe Region Priority topics

• Focus of regional initiativeThe well
  functioning of the whole-sale market interface
  between Nordel-area and Germany/Poland
• To deal with now
• - Interconnector allocation mechanism and
  congestion
• management
• - Merchant interconnectors
• - Other interconnectors
• - Transparency for market-actors
• To include in road-map
• - Planning and financing of new/strengthened
  interconnectors- Need for joint intra-day and
  regulation power markets - Cooperation on
  integration of major shares of windenergy

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The purpose of todays Stakeholder Meeting

• Open dialogue on how to design the framework for
  a better integrated and more efficient Norther
  Europe electricity market
• Views on the priorities presented
• First concrete input on the work to begin now
• First concrete input on further work

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Todays agenda (1)

• 10.00 10.20 Welcome and short introduction of
  the Northern
• Europe Electricity Regional Initiative
• By DERA Finn Dehlbæk
• Optimizing the use of interconnectors
  capacity
• allocation and congestion management
• 10.20 10.35 Status and challenges. By Northern
  Europe RCC/DERA Bente Danielsen
• 10.35 10.50 Open Market Coupling. By BNetzA
  Frank-Peter Hansen
• 10.50 11.05 The Kontek Price area, status and
  future. By Nord Pool
  Spot Anders Plejdrup Houmøller
• 11.05 11.45 Prepared presentations of
  stakeholders Discussion
• Transparency for market participants in the
• Northern Europe whole sale market
• 11.45 12.00 Status and challenges. By Northern
  Europe RCC/DER Jan Hansen
• 12.00 12.15 The need for transparency. By
  Eurelectric - Gunnar Lundberg, Vattenfall AB
• 12.15 - 12.30 The new system of voluntary
  transparency - by European Energy Exchange AG
  EE - Albert Moser
• 12.30 13.30 Lunch at Restaurant room
  Mamas Papas

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Todays agenda (2)

• Transparency for market participants in the
• Northern Europe whole sale market..continued
• 13.30 - 14.15 Prepared presentations of
  stakeholders Discussion
• Other priorities of a road-map
• - Planning and financing of investments in
  interconnectors
• - The need for joint intra-day and balancing
  markets
• - Cooperation on integration of major shares
  of wind energy
• 14.15 14.30 Status and challenges. By
  Northern Europe RCC/DERA Peter Hoffmann
• 14.30 14.45 Joint Nordic planning of
  transmission investments.
  By Nordel Bente Hagem, Statnett
• 14.45 15.00 The importance of common intra-day
  markets and balance settlement
• methods. By EFET - Harmuth Fenn, Vattenfall
  Trading
• 15.00 15.15 Integration of major
  shares of wind energy. By Energinet.dk, Per
  Sørensen,
• 15.15 15.40 Coffee break
• Other priorities of a road-mapcontinued
• 15.40 16.10 Prepared presentations of
  stakeholders Discussion
• 16.10 16.30 Conclusions