The transmission system is designed with the objective of maintaining a large transfer capacity so it is not necessary to limit power transmission. This ensures that there is a single price area in Finland.
In mid-June, several disruptions occurred simultaneously in the regions around the border between Argentina and Uruguay, resulting in a large-scale power cut that left 48 million people without electricity. Timo Kaukonen, Manager of Operational Planning at Fingrid, answers questions about disruptions.
The go-live date for Datahub, a centralised information exchange service for electricity trading, will be postponed from its original target of April 2021 to early 2022.
New ideas and businesses are created when information arising from an organisation’s activities is made openly available for others. Fingrid’s open data service has been online for three years now, and it is used by parties such as researchers, application developers and the authorities.
In the future, flexible resources, such as battery storage facilities and micronetworks, will play an important role in keeping the power system in balance as the advent of fluctuating renewable generation causes power generation to be spread across various parts and voltage levels on the network. Fingrid is closely involved in research and development projects to identify the best ways of realising the potential of flexible resources on the road towards cleaner energy.
Several electricity storage methods are under development, including electric batteries and synthetic fuels, which may provide some much-needed flexibility for the clean energy system of the future.
The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) vision for 2030 has sparked debate of a revolution in the power system and the consequent opportunities and threats to the power system. The vision combines the simultaneous development of markets and operators and asks what should be done when the markets are harnessed for the good of the energy revolution.
As many as nine partners and stakeholders offered their views on ENTSO-E and its development during the first ten years. Peter Claes, Vice President, IFIEC, said that ENTSO-E is doing a fine job, but there’s still room for improvement.
The institutional perspective session kicked off with a video greeting by Claude Turmes, Minister for Energy of the Government of Luxembourg, who said that ENTSO-E has taken “a gigantic step” in ten years.
“Now we need you for another gigantic step – how do we win against climate change?”
Joachim Vanzetta, Chair of the Board for ENTSO-E, believes that the TSOs in ENTSO-E will continue to strive to find the right balance between the dimensions of the energy trilemma: sustainability, affordability and security of supply/system security.
