| Objectives
The ambitious challenge of
the European Union to promote a unique electricity market among European
countries has created an intense debate among all the involved parties.
The internal opening of the Internal Electricity Market has considerable
effects to cross.-border exchanges of electricity, increasing the flow
patterns. As a consequence, market players are faced with a lack of available
capacities, causing congestion and refusal of transmission access. The
topic of this course is related to technical and regulation challenges
that must be solved in order to assess an adequate and fair management
of the limited electricity interconnections between European countries.
From a technical point of view, an effective European electricity market
demands the existence of common rules and standards applied by transmission
system operators (TSOs) and the expansion of the existing network to increase
transmission capability between countries. From a regulatory point of
view, a unique electricity market among European countries should be based
on non-discriminatory congestion management procedures on the interconnections
setting fair prices for international exchanges.
The first day of the course is devoted to discuss the technical issues
that arise within the internal European market. Special emphasis will
be put on the following aspects: (a) description of the actual transmission
capacities between the European countries, (b) the analysis of the actual
principles, technical rules and software used by European TSOs to allocate
the limited transmission capacity, and (c) analysis of costs and benefits
of the new proposals of network reinforcements between European countries.
The second day of the course will be devoted to regulatory issues of the
problem under consideration paying attention to: (a) theoretical background
of the existing congestion management procedures, (b) analysis of the
advantages and disadvantages of each method applied to the European case,
(c) description of the actual methods used by European countries to manage
congestions, and (d) current situation and conclusions of the Florence
Regulatory Forum.
This course is intended for professionals from electricity generation
and transmission companies, energy and electricity regulators, energy
service providers and energy retail companies, as well as researchers
and consultants in this field.
Coordinators
Prof.
Enrique Lobato Miguélez (enrique.lobato@iit.upco.es)
Enrique Lobato Miguélez is a professor of Electrical
Engineering at the Engineering School of Universidad Pontificia Comillas
(UPCo) in Madrid, Spain and he is a consultant on the electricity field
at Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (IIT) at the same
university. His areas of interest include analysis, planning, operation
and economics in electric power systems. He has participated in several
research projects for different firms related with the energy industry
in collaboration with Spanish, Latin American and European utilities.
He has a wide experience in congestion management issues, having developed
the mathematical algorithms used by Spanish TSO to solve Spanish power
system constraints and is member of CIGRE Working-Group C1-2: “Maintenance
of Acceptable Reliability in an Uncertain Environment by the Timely Provision
of Network Capacity and Management of Constraints”.
Instructors
Bruno
Cova
CESI
Italy
Javier
González
EuroPEX
Spain
Yves
Harmand
RTE
France
Marisa
Llorens
Red Eléctrica de España
Spain
Enrique
Lobato
Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Spain
Michael
Metcalfe
ETSO
UK
Alberto
Pototschnig
GRTN
Italy
Carlos
Solé
Comisión Nacional de Energía
Spain
Carlos
Vázquez
Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Spain
Gijsbert
Zwart
CPB
The Netherlands
Course
duration and location
Two days,
from Thursday 5th to Friday 6th of May 2005. Universidad Pontificia Comillas
(IIT). Alberto Aguilera 23 28015, Madrid – Spain.
Courses
Contents
Technical Challenges on management of Interconnections
Thursday,
May 5th
08:30 –
09:00 Course registration
09:00–
10:00 Course presentation and congestion management background (Enrique
Lobato)
10:30 –
11:30 Electricity Network Capacities and identification of Congestions
in Europe (Bruno Cova)
11:30 –
12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 –
13:00 Spanish Experience in congestion management at the interconnectors
(Marisa Llorens)
13:00 –
14:00 Flow-based Market Coupling(FMC): A Joint ETSO-EuroPEX Proposal for
Cross-Border Congestion Management Border (Michael Metcalfe & Javier
González)
14:00 –
15:30 Lunch
15:30 –
16:30 French Experience in congestion management at the interconnectors
(Yves Harmand)
17:30 –
20:00 Visit to Iberdrola energy management center in Madrid
Regulatory Challenges on management of Interconnections
Friday, May 6th
08:30 –
10:00 A theoretical framework for congestion management and transmission
pricing (Carlos Vázquez)
10:00 –
11:30 Current situation and conclusions within the Florence Regulatory
Forum (A. Pototschnig)
11:30 –
12:00 Coffee break
12:00 –
13:30 Regulation of interconnections in The Netherlands (Gijsbert Zwart)
13:30 –
15:00 Lunch
15:00 –
16:30 Regulation of interconnections under the Spanish experience (Carlos
Solé)
16:30
– 17:30 Round table and discussion with course instructors and participants
(moderator: Enrique Lobato Miguélez)
Course
fees
The course fee includes lectures, documentation, coffee
breaks, lunches and the social dinner, according to the registration option.
Members of the EES - UETP: 350 Euro
University non members of the EES - UETP: 600 Euro
Industry non members of the EES - UETP: 1000 Euro
Courses' Cancellation Policy: notifications should be
sent in writing to the course Coordinator. Cancellations received one
week before the course will not be refunded.
Registration
form
To register to the EES-UETP course, please download the
form below, fill it up, and send or fax a copy before Friday 22th April
2005 to:
Ms. Mariló
Rodríguez
Email: marilo.rodriguez@iit.upco.es
Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica
Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Alberto Aguilera, 23 E-28015 Madrid, Spain
Phone : +34 915 40 61 07
Fax : +34 915 42 31 76
Download
Registration form
Accommodation
Please, ask for accommodation arrangements to Ms. Mariló
Rodríguez indicating your arrival and departure dates (in case
you are going to arrive to the Hotel later than 18:00 h, please also indicate
your credit card number and the expiration date in order to guarantee
your reservation).
Email: marilo.rodriguez@iit.upco.es mentioning UETP Congestion Course.
Recommended hotels nearby the University:
Tirol
c/ Marqués de
Urquijo, 4
P. (+34) 915481900
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c/ Serrano
Jover, 1
P. (+34) 915424582
F. (+34) 915427169
NH Alb. Aguilera
c/ Alberto
Aguilera, 18
P. (+34) 914460900
F. (+34) 914460904
Information
Ms. Mariló Rodríguez
Email: marilo.rodriguez@iit.upco.es
Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica
Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Alberto Aguilera, 23 E-28015 Madrid, Spain
Phone : +34 915 40 61 07
Fax : +34 915 42 31 76
Deadline for inscriptions: April 22th 2005
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