Meeting of the Central Eastern European Electricity Forum in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

Press Release of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology

Yesterday a meeting of the Central Eastern European Electricity Forum (CEEE Forum) took place in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. Representatives of the ministries, the regulatory authorities, the transmission system operators and the power exchanges from Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria and Hungary and representatives of the European Commission and of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) discussed the latest developments on the electricity markets in the central/eastern European region. The discussion focused on the cooperation of the transmission system operators on the implementation of the target model for a common EU internal electricity market by 2014. Further topics included impediments to electricity trading and "loop flows" in the central/eastern European region.

After the meeting of the CEEE Forum a trilateral meeting of representatives of the ministries, the regulatory authorities and the transmission system operators from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic was held. They addressed the topic of loop flows originating from wind farms in the north of Germany which may result in temporary problems for the Polish and Czech transmission systems. During the session it was decided to intensify the existing cross-border cooperation between the three countries' transmission system operators. Joint plans of measures of the transmission system operators are supposed to ward off possible threats to the safety of the transmission systems in neighbouring countries. The plans aim to minimise the problem of loop flows in the three Member States in the long term by expanding the transmission grids.