Overview of SO UES JSC of events that have a significant impact on the functioning and development of world energy systems based on materials from foreign media, official websites of network / system operators

SO UPS JSC has prepared a weekly review of events that have a significant impact on the functioning and development of global energy systems (03/31/2023-04/06/2023), based on materials from foreign media, official websites of network / system operators.

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Review topics:

- An agreement was signed on the provision of emergency assistance between the energy systems of continental Europe and Ukraine

- A Texas Court of Appeals called back decisions that triggered a massive surge in electricity prices during a snow storm in February 2021.

- The American FERC provided clarifications on the powers regarding the transfer of electricity between the power systems of Puerto Rico and the US states

- Swissgrid has completed a pilot project to integrate distributed resources into the power system

- US MISO and Ameren Illinois completed a pilot project to manage distributed energy resources as part of a micro-grid

- British SSE invests $100 million in the implementation of the initial stage of the construction project of the UK's largest pumped storage power plant

- The American company rPlus Hydro passed the next stage of licensing the project for the construction of a pumped storage power plant in the state of Nevada

- FERC approved the extension of operation of the Lakefront coal-fired power plant in Wisconsin

- Installed capacity of renewable generation facilities in India was almost 170 GW at the end of 2023

- The Estonian Environmental Investment Center applied for licensing the construction project of the Estonian-Latvian Elwind offshore wind generation complex with a design capacity of up to 1 GW in the Baltic Sea

- US Presidential Administration allocates $2.5 billion to build charging stations for electric vehicles and gas stations for cars that use cleaner fuel