Precondition for stock exchange is to start working liberalization of electricity market. Earlier this year began partial liberalization for customers at high voltage, since the beginning of the next it was announced the inclusion of medium-sized enterprises, and from 2015 households will be able to choose their electricity supplier too.
EMS TSO company confirmed that the liberalization of electricity market is necessary, but not sufficient condition for the establishment of a liquid organized market.
The feasibility of the project depends on a number of risk factors, and the most important are: internal constraints related to technical solutions and procedures of Exchange itself, as well as quality of managerial and operational staff expert, financial constraints related to market liquidity, price policy, as well as portfolio and creditworthiness of participants, technical limitations in the transmission system that is primarily related to congestion on cross-border capacities, so that foreign participants would be allowed to participate in the organized market.
Many of these risk factors, especially technical and political constraints related to the expansion of the region, may, with the full involvement of the professional staff which EMS has, can be reduced or completely eliminated by establishing the planned strategic partnership with one of Europe’s leading exchanges in this field.
Connecting to European stock exchanges
Our source said that in EU as a Target model for “day-ahead market,” with cross-border capacity, it was adopted the concept of so-called implicit auction, by applying the model of “conecting markets with price and quantity” (Price Market Coupling).
– In addition to using of this model contributes to efficient usage and maximization of available cross-border capacity on the “day-ahead” time frame, it also, through the establishment of relevant reference price is the basis for the efficient functioning of the market in different time frames, especially in the long run.
Mladenovic from TSO company says that a necessary condition for the implementation of the model between two or more market areas, is the establishment of organized “day-ahead” market in each of them, as well as implementation of a harmonized market mechanism through which market areas through available cross-border capacity merge into one. The available capacity is used so that the offers of market area with a lower price “spill over” into a market area with a higher price, up to an amount equal to the available transmission capacity.
– According to the relevant legislation defined by so called Third energy package of the EU and of Target model, the preparation of binding the Network Rules at EU level is in progress, and also, at the level of South-Eastern Europe under the auspices of the Treaty establishing the Energy Community, prepared on the same basis and so called “regional action plan for the establishment of a single market in the SEE region.” Keeping all this in mind, the concept was also prepared for further expansion of SEEPEX in the region and merging with neighboring markets.
After establishing SEEPEX and beginning of functioning of the electricity market in Serbia, it is planned to formalize already initiated actions to merge the market with neighboring markets in the region as soon as possible. Mladenovic says that the first potential partner is HUPX (Hungary Stock Exchange).
– That cooperation can be reflected, as in a common approach to the existing pan-European initiatives for the establishment of a single European electricity market (PCR Initiative), as well as in other forms strategic partnership.
Who would be the operator of SEEPEX?
EMS has the power to carry out all necessary implementing actions, which are in the final stages, and according to Mr. Mladenovic, the first necessary next step to enable the establishment of the market operator as an independent company is that the Serbian government implements concrete steps and take the necessary measures in this direction, what is in full swing, and what can be expected by the end of this year.
Source; Serbia Energy
