Cross Border Power Trading
13-14 May 2009, Dusseldorf

 

Day 1: Wednesday 13th

9.30-9.45: Chairman Mr Peter Styles opens the conference

9.45: Session 1 - Day Ahead Market Coupling: Is it alone enough to link national and regional markets?

Part 1 - The respective roles of implicit and explicit auctions of transmission capacity

9.45-10.30: Market coupling in continental Europe by EPEX Spot

Market participants and other stakeholders have stressed their needs to operate in a bigger market place as soon as possible in continental Europe. Market coupling and EPEX Spot can facilitate the first step which is the integration of the spot market.

  • Current status and challenges for implementing market coupling in a wide region
  • The important role played by EPEX Spot
  • Future developments

Juan Perez, Director Strategy and Market Design, EPEX Spot SE

10.30-11.15: Implicit auctions and the NorNed Trading Project

  • Introduction and background for coupling of the Dutch and Norwegian electricity systems
  • Implicit auction on NorNed
  • Challenges and obstacles
  • Present solution
  • Future plans

Ole Gjerde, Project Manager NorNed Trading Project, Statnett SF

11.15-11.45: Networking

11.45- 12.30: Market coupling Projects in CWE and Northern Europe

  • Experiences and challenges for further development

Dr. Kathrin Thomaschki, Head of Section, Access to transmission grids, Cross border Trading, Federal Network Agency

12.30-13.30: Lunch

Part 2 - The work being done by ETSO and Europex

13.30-14.15:  Developments in Market Integration

  • The ETSO and Europex study on market integration - next steps
  • What work is being done and what are the latest developments
  • Future solutions for regional and inter-regional market integration

Andrew McIntosh, European Policy Manager for Electricity, National Grid

14.15-15.00: Networking

15.00-15.45: The importance of establishing a liquid market in transmission rights to complement day-ahead implicit auctions of transmission capacity

  • Traders' need for a transmission risk hedging tool in advance of D-1
  • Matching the maturity of power supply contracts with the maturity of auctioned transmission capacity
  • Dual purpose transmission rights: physical and also financial
  • The crucial attribute of firmness, both actual and contractual
  • Facilitating a secondary market in transmission rights

Peter R. Styles, Board Member, Electricity Committee Chairman, European Federation of Energy Traders

15.45-16.30: Questions and discussions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 2: Thursday 14th

9.00-9.15: Chairman Dr Tahir Kapetanovic opens the conference

9.15: Session 2 - European Union electricity liberalisation: How far to go on cross border implementation?

9.15-10.00: The new European regulatory framework

  • The new institutions (Agency, ENTSOs)
  • Framework guidelines and codes to integrate the electricity market
  • How regulators envisage to make use of the interim period?

Asta Sihvonen-Punkka, CEER Vice-President and Chair of CEER Electricity Working Group, Director General of Energy Market Authority (Finland)

10.00-10.45:  EU competition policy in electricity sector

  • Issues in the European energy sector
  • Progress of the 3rd Liberalisation Package
  • EC competition enforcement in the energy markets

Maciej Ciszewski, DG Competition, European Commission

10.45-11.15: Networking

11.15-12.00: Tahir Kapetanovic, Topic T.B.A.

12.00-13.00: Lunch

13.00: Session 3 - Linking national and regional markets in the Intraday Timeframe

13.00-13.45: Efficient Intraday Trading

  • Intraday trading in Nordic area, efficiency in the market
  • Elbas as competitor and complement to the regulating market, benefits
  • Future developments of the Intraday market, inter-regional connections
  • Benefits of Intraday because of implementation of more wind-power

Lars-Inge Gustavsson, Generation Management, Vattenfall Nordic

13.45-14.15: Intraday Trading in CWE market

  • Current status cross-border intraday trading in CWE.
  • Requirements for a continuous trading platform, in particular the need to handle also OTC trades.
  • How to implement such a continuous trading platform in CWE ?

Marcel Cailliau, Trading and Portfolio Management, Electrabel GDF Suez

14.15-14.45: Networking

14.45-15.30: Integration of balancing markets

  • Integration of balancing markets in the context of market integration
  • Basic principles of the balancing markets
  • Cross-border balancing

Håkan Feuk, Director of Market Rules at E.ON Energy Trading, Director of market rules at representing Swedenergy in Eurelectrics working groups Wholesale Markets & Trading and Regional implementation

15.30-16.15: Organised (PX) Regional Intra Day Markets - possibilities for them to support efficient Regional DA and Real Time (Balancing) Arrangements and enhance competition

  • Enhancement of regional ID liquidity, transparency and standardisation via PX based platforms for energy trading directly linked to TSO CB capacity allocation mechanisms
  • How risks can be reduced as a result of liquid PX based ID solutions
    - By PX ID arrangements building on DA and BM arrangements and rules
    - By strengthening the link between DA, ID and BM prices
    - By the fact that such markets can provide efficient tools for short term trading, planning and real-time (BM) balancing of power portfolios.

Rickard Nilsson, Project Manager, Nord Pool Spot

16.15: Discussions and closing of the conference

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