Overview of events that have a significant impact on the functioning and development of global energy systems
JSC "SO UPS" has prepared a Weekly review of events that have a significant impact on the functioning and development of global energy systems (17.02.2023-02.03.2023), based on materials from foreign media, official websites of network / system operators.
Review topics:
- An agreement was reached to increase the capacity of commercial electricity flows between the energy systems of continental Europe and Ukraine/Moldova
- The German government is negotiating a merger of four German system operators through a share buyback
- The Ministry of Climate and Energy of Latvia becomes the holder of the state block of shares of the national system operator
- In January 2023, electricity generation at the Daugava HPP (Latvia) more than quadrupled
- The new tariff instrument of the British Octopus Energy encourages companies to use electricity generated from renewable energy sources as part of their business
- Belgian Elia and German Amprion signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the development and implementation of a project to build a second cross-border connection between the energy systems of Belgium and Germany
- German system operators 50Herz and TenneT announced plans to implement a joint project for the construction of an intersystem high-voltage DC connection NordOstLink
- Germany's Sonnen and TenneT successfully use electric vehicles as energy storage for the first time
- Offshore wind farm Arcadis Ost 1, under construction in the German part of the Baltic Sea, delivered the first electricity to the grid
- One of the largest solar power plants in Southeast Europe will be built in Montenegro
- The Energy Interconnection Authority of the Gulf Cooperation Council signed contracts for the construction of a cross-border electrical connection with Iraq
- The system operator of the states of New England from December this year will take into account solar generation when forming dispatch schedules