SEE CAO appoints Ivan Bulatović as new executive director
Coordination Auction Office in South East Europe (SEE CAO) has appointed Ivan Bulatović as the new executive director, SEE CAO said in a news release. SEE CAO manages the coordinated explicit allocation of cross-border transmission capacities on six borders in SEE region. Ivan Bulatović has extensive experience in the field of power systems and has […]
CROPEX to organize auctions for purchase of energy to cover grid losses
On May 6, the Croatian Power Exchange (CROPEX) will organize auctions for the purchase of energy to cover transmission system losses in the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 via the CROPEX trading platform. This was agreed between Croatian transmission system operator (TSO) Hrvatski operator prenosnog sistema (HOPS) and CROPEX. The application for participation in the […]
Kick-off meeting held for Croatia-Serbia-Bulgaria market coupling project
The kick-off meeting for the initiation of a trilateral power market coupling project between Croatia, Serbia, and Bulgaria (HR-RS-BG) was successfully held on February 13 in Belgrade, the South East European Power Exchange (SEEPEX) said on its website. The meeting was attended by all main stakeholders – transmission system operators (TSOs) HOPS, EMS, and ESO, […]
Croatian Energy Market Operator to become part of Croatian Transmission System Operator
The Croatian Energy Market Operator (HROTE) will be part of the Croatian Transmission System Operator (HOPS), while the Croatian Environment and Nature Agency will become part of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy. This is the outcome of the Croatian government’s decision on the reduction of the number of state agencies, institutes, funds, companies, […]
Croatian, European day-ahead markets linked
Croatian Power Exchange (CROPEX) and Croatian transmission system operator (HOPS) together with Slovenian power exchange and transmission system operator completed the EU MRC day-ahead market (DAM) coupling project on the Croatian-Slovenian border. According to CROPEX’ press release, for the market coupling session, transmission system operators (TSOs) agreed on an implicit allocation of the daily capacity. […]
Croatian HOPS announces new Management Board
The new chairman of the Management Board of the Croatian electricity transmission system operator HOPS is Mario Gudelj, while Ivica Modrić and Zlatko Visković have been appointed as new board members. The appointment of new management board members came after the regular termination of the mandate to the former board members – Miroslav Mesić (chairman), […]
Croatian HOPS has become member of Mediterranean Association Med-TSO
HOPS, the Croatian transmission system operator (TSO) has become a member of Med-TSO, the Association of the Mediterranean Transmission System Operators for electricity, sharing the primary goal of creating a Mediterranean energy market. During the Med-TSO assembly in Brussels last week, Croatia officially become the 19th country-member of the association which has 400,000 kilometers of […]
Intraday allocation on Croatian-Hungarian border to be launched
Croatian transmission system operator (TSO) HOPS and Hungarian transmission system operator MAVIR announced the launch of intraday allocation on Croatian-Hungarian border on March 27. “The Go – Live date of intraday allocation on Croatian-Hungarian border is set at 18:00 of March 27, with the publication of ID ATC value, for the business day March 28”, […]