Fingrid’s pilot projects with Helen and the French company Voltalis are looking for a model and operating methods for independent aggregator activities in the balancing power and reserve markets.
The Vaasa region is home to an international hub of energy technology industry with strong expertise in areas like decentralised energy production, energy distribution and operations solutions. The hub employs 11,000 people, and many of its more than 140 companies are international market leaders in their sectors. The combined turnover of the companies is over 4.4 billion euros, and export accounts for more than 80% of that figure. This is equivalent to nearly one-third of Finland’s total energy technology exports.
Fingrid and the other Nordic TSOs have begun to promote the transition to a 15-minute imbalance settlement period. The energy balancing network code requires EU member states to switch to 15-minute imbalance settlement within three years of the code taking effect, which means December 2020.
Committees give different customer groups the opportunity to present their views on Fingrid’s activities. The committees don’t make decisions, but they discuss matters and share information. The minutes of the meetings are public.
Our questions about European electricity market integration were answered by Laurent Schmitt, Secretary-General of ENTSO-E.
Everyone is talking about the electricity market transformation, but how will renewal affect the consumer? Päivi Suur-Uski is an energy efficiency expert from Motiva, and she answered our questions. Motiva Oy is a Finnish state-owned company that provides expert services to promote resource efficiency.
In March 2017, the five Nordic transmission system operators signed a cooperation agreement concerning the development of a new Nordic balancing concept.
Finland is also beginning to notice the benefit of electric transport.
As competition increases in the energy industry, being able to stand out will become even more important.
Maintenance is constantly becoming more proactive – and more digital. For Fingrid, it has always been vitally important to handle any servicing in a way that minimises the resulting disruptions. Digitalisation helps to keep costs low and outage times short – and eliminate them entirely in the best case.
