Serbian
state-owned power grid operator Elektromreze Srbije (EMS) is expected to express
interest by the end of June in using the services of the Coordinated Auction
Office in South East Europe (SEE CAO), SEE CAO said on Thursday.
EMS is
expected to officially express the interest to use SEE CAO services including
definition of the borders with SEE CAO shareholders that should be serviced by
SEE CAO, the auction office said in a presentation.
Upon receipt of the
expression of the interest, SEE CAO will by end of August define admission fee
and agreement for services with same conditions as for SEE CAO shareholders, to
be signed by mid October.
In order to include EMS borders in SEE CAO
auctions for 2016, SEE CAO is willing to accept only service provision for EMS,
the presentation showed.
The main aim of the SEE CAO initiative,
involving the transmission system operators of Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, FYROM, Greece, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia, Kosovo and Turkey, is
to harmonise congestion management methods and optimise cross border capacity
allocation.
The SEE CAO project team company was established in
Montenegro's capital Podgorica in July. It began holding auctions in late
2014.
SEE CAO said it plans to launch monthly auctions on the
Greek-Turkish border from September with annual auctions on the Greek-Albanian
border seen in 2016