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electricity markets
5.11.2021
TSOs embrace collaboration to cope with the challenges of the Electrification Era and the Rise of Renewables
Society is going through a vast electrification process that is shaping life as we know it. For TSOs, this poses a lot of challenges: massive changes in the industry are
necessary in order to enable full electrification.
5.11.2021
System security and the market go hand in hand
Although some time has passed since the market was opened up, many transmission system operators still lack clarity as to their role in the electricity market. Fingrid endeavours to provide 100 per cent of its transmission capacity to the market.
16.9.2021
The Main Grid Control Centre ensures the availability of electricity around the clock
Fingrid’s Main Grid Control Centre in Helsinki works all hours of the day to ensure that every village, town and city in Finland has enough electricity. The control centre handles routine tasks, as well as unplanned tasks when a swift reaction is needed to prevent disturbances in the availability of electricity. Some disturbances also affect the intra-day electricity price.
1.9.2021
…And a call comes in from the main grid control centre…
It is a Monday morning, and a call comes in from the main grid control centre. Over the weekend, the Swedish transmission system operator Svenska kraftnät (Svk) began limiting the transmission of electricity from Finland to Central Sweden. I recalled a moment last summer when Svk was forced to limit the transmission of electricity from Norway, leading to confusion in the electricity markets – surely history will not repeat itself on the border between Finland and Sweden...?
19.3.2021
Closer Nordic collaboration
Nordic RSC, the joint Regional Security Coordinator office of the Nordic transmission system operators, offers transmission system operators regional analysis in support of operational planning and implements a new method for calculating capacity based on transmission.
30.10.2020
Comments on electricity markets and the Nordic Balancing Model: Work to be done; efficiency cannot be compromised
We asked four electricity market specialists how they see electricity markets developing and the Nordic Balancing Model progressing as representatives of their organisations. The responses reveal concerns over the continued transparency of electricity markets and the costs of the Nordic balancing model. There is work still to be done, as the 15-minute imbalance settlement period will require a substantial change to electricity metering.