Archive of Press Releases

Record Day-ahead trading volume of 38.121 MWh

BSP SouthPool has reached a new record trading volume on the Day-ahead market for the 24th January 2021 trading day

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Amendments to the Exchange Rules

Market participants are informed that with 1. January 2022, the new amendments to Exchange Rules will enter into force. The changes in the rules will cover the field of "Market Definition Slovenia" and "Products Definition".

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Postponement of the Core Flow-Based Market Coupling project Go-Live date of end of February 2022

  External dependencies delayed the timely start of the first phase of Core Joint Integration Testing. In addition, technical issues encountered during the first weeks of the Joint Integration Testing, require extending the testing phase to ensure robustness of the systems. Fixes are being prepared to commence the required re-testing. Core project parties are working hard to minimise the delay. Due to high complexity of the systems and necessary alignment with external parties, current expectation is that the go-live would take place between beginning of Q2 2022 at the earliest and before...

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ENOS d.d. - new member on BSP

With our pleasure we can announce our newest member ENOS d.d. who has officially joined BSP on 24.11.2021. The core business of Enos, d.d. is the production of hot water for the needs of district heating in the town of Jesenice. In addition to the core business, the company produces and supplies electricity from efficient cogeneration, and distributes and supplies natural gas.

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BSP signed service agreement with Monetnegrin power exchange Mepx

BSP Energy Exchange on 20th October 2021 signed an agreement with Montenegrin power exchange Mepx for the provision of services related to the operation of the Montenegrin organized electricity market. EPEX SPOT will support Mepx in setting up the day-ahead market. BSP will put into place with Mepx clearing and settlement service for Montenegrin power exchange trades and for upcoming electricity market coupling projects with neighbouring countries.

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SIDC: Successful third wave go-live

Single Intraday Coupling (SIDC) parties confirm successful third wave go-live integrating Italy, which joined SIDC coupling on 21st September. Intraday trading now extended across 23 countries coupled through SIDC. System performing well. Nominated Electricity Market Operators (NEMOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs) involved in the European Single Intraday Coupling (SIDC – formerly known as XBID) are pleased to confirm the successful go-live of the third launch of SIDC. The go-live on 21st September integrated the Northern Italian borders (IT-FR, IT-AT and IT-SI) as well as the...

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Auction for the Transfer of the ECO Group Centre for the year 2022

Borzen, the Slovenian market operator, will perform auction on tuesday 19th October 2022, for the transfer of electricity from the ECO Group for the year 2022 in cooperation with BSP SouthPool Energy Exchange. The electricity from the ECO Group for the year 2022 will be sold in the same way as in the previous years, i.e. indirectly by transferring the whole ECO Group to another Balance Scheme Member's balancing group or subgroup. For that purpose an Auction will be organized, at which participants will be asked to bid the highest price in EUR/MWh for all the electricity produced in the ECO...

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SDAC Decoupling training session with Market Participants 03/11/2021

Since the go-live of Multi Regional Coupling (MRC, jointly with 4M MC forming SDAC) in 2014, more than 2,700 successful market coupling sessions have been conducted. In the last 2 years, three major incidents have happened that led to a partial decoupling of the SDAC Market. As part of the SDAC evaluation of these three incidents, recommendations have been made to perform training sessions involving all operational parties (Transmission System Operators [TSOs], Nominated Electricity Market Operators [NEMOs], Central Clearing Parties, Shadow Auction entities, etc.) including Market...

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Confirmation of Go-Live date for SIDC integration of Italy

SIDC: Confirmation of Go-Live date for SIDC integration of Italy; plans for integration of Greece and Slovakia The Nominated Electricity Market Operators (NEMOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs) of Local Implementation Project (LIP) 14 confirm the go-live date of 21st September for first deliveries on 22nd September. In the meantime, plans for the integration of Greece and Slovakia during 2022 have been devised by SIDC (Single Intraday Coupling). The NEMOs and TSOs cooperating in LIP 14, which aims to integrate the Northern Italian borders (IT-FR, IT-AT and IT-SI) as well as the...

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Second Foundation a.s. - newest member of BSP

We proudly present to you our newest member of BSP, the company named Second Foundation a.s. from Czech Republic, which has officially joined us on 13.09.2021.

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Introduction of Complementary Regional Intraday Auctions (CRIDAs) and implementation of new quantity resolution

Starting with September 21, 2021 for the delivery date September 22, 2021 CRIDAs will replace current Intraday Auctions (M2, MI6) The new CRIDAs will have different delivery hours, Gate Opening Times (GOT), Gate Closure Times (GCT) and time for Result publication. With the introduction of CRIDA auctions, the current MI6 auction for the delivery date 21.09.2021 will be canceled. CRIDA 1 (EM platform MI1) Delivery hours: H1-H24 GOT: 13:00 (D-1) GCT: 15:00 (D-1) Result publication: 15:30 (D-1) CRIDA 2(EM platform MI2) Delivery hours: H1-H24 GOT: 15:30 (D-1) GCT: 22:00 (D-1) Result publication:...

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Interim Coupling project: Go-live confirmed for 17 June 2021

15 June 2021. Interim Coupling project: Go-live confirmed for 17 June 2021 A further step towards an integrated European electricity market Following the successful completion of technical readiness, the go-live of the Interim Coupling project is confirmed for 17 June 2021 (first delivery day 18 June 2021). The Interim Coupling project aims to connect the 4M MC (Czech-Slovak-Hungarian-Romanian market coupling) with the Multi-Regional Coupling (MRC) by introducing Net Transmission Capacity (NTC) based implicit capacity allocation on six new borders: PL-DE, PL-CZ, PL-SK, CZ-DE, CZ-AT, HU-AT. The...

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