The Directorate-General for Energy develops and implements the European energy policy under the guidance of the European Commission. Director of The Internal Energy Market, Klaus-Dieter Borchardt, explains the latest developments in energy market integration.
Fingrid will be the first European transmission grid operator to make its real-time data storages available to partners. The open data collected by Fingrid can be utilised to provide companies, consumers and electricity market actors with new services and financial benefits as it becomes possible to monitor things like energy consumption with more accuracy.
Fingrid has started the development of mobile and browser applications for main grid information contained in the ELVIS system.
The US state of Texas has plenty of wind power, and the price of electricity on the free market fluctuates considerably according to weather conditions. This has also created demand for flexible capacity, which protects against price spikes.
The house of Kaija Niskala, Service Manager for energy accounting and guarantees of origin, sports solar panels on its roof, producing electricity not only for her family but also for others.
“Fingrid collects customer feedback via several channels. A good meter and trend indicator is the customer feedback survey conducted every year; respondents comprise around 200 customers. Continuous feedback recorded in the customer information system is collected from routine customer encounters,” says Jussi Jyrinsalo, Fingrid’s Senior Vice President responsible for customer relationships.
“When our help was requested, we agreed and arrived at the transmission line’s disconnectors in no time. We managed to limit and earth the fault quickly,” Kenet Oy’s Operations Manager Veli-Pekka Kinnunen and Substation Engineer Risto Ekdahl recall the disturbance that occurred in January. Fingrid thanked the men for the good and well-functioning cooperation.
Demand response is an effective way to prepare for exceptional situations in the electricity grid. It supplements production response in disturbance situations. Fingrid has acquired a record amount of frequency-controlled disturbance reserve from demand response for 2017.
Fingrid has named the 400-kilovolt transmission line connections between north and south in the spirit of Finland’s 100th anniversary:
The Specifications for the Operational Performance of Power-generating Facilities (VJV) will be updated next year. The EU’s network code for the connection of generators (NC RfG) will become part of Fingrid’s requirements.
