O.Gjerde WG C2/C5.05 Development and Changes in the Business of System Operators Status report from WG C2/C5.05 Ole Gjerde, Statnett Convenor September 2003

O.Gjerde WG C2/C5.05 Development and Changes in the Business of System Operators Membership status: By September 2003 WG C2/C5.05 has got 28 members –17 full members from 14 countries –11 corresponding members from 8 countries

O.Gjerde WG C2/C5.05 Development and Changes in the Business of System Operators WG C2/C5.05 meetings : Toronto, Paris, London (Wokingham) Hong Kong (Cancelled) Autumn meeting in Montreal

O.Gjerde WG C2/C5.05 Development and Changes in the Business of System Operators WG C2/C5.05 progress of work: (1) Paper presented at the Paris session 2002: : ”Changes in the Business and Interfaces of System Operators facing liberalisation and restructuring”. Based on responses to questionnaire from the WG Authores: Ole Gjerde, Olav B.Fosso, Paul Giesbertz, Les Clarke, Per-Anders Löf, Ben Li, Al DiCaprio, Hubert Lemmons, Chai Ming Mak, Veli-Jukka Pyötsiä and Juan Bogas

O.Gjerde WG C2/C5.05 Development and Changes in the Business of System Operators WG C2/C5.05 progress of work: (2) Paper prepared for presentation at the Cigre Symposium ”Development and Operation of Interconnections in a Restructuring Context”, in Shanghai China, April Title of paper (440-08) is: ”Cross border congestion management – international examples and comparison”. Authores: Paul Giesbertz, Juan Bogas, Al DiCaprio, Olav B.Fosso, Ole Gjerde and Paulo Gomes

O.Gjerde WG C2/C5.05 Development and Changes in the Business of System Operators WG C2/C5.05 progress of work: (3) During the WG meeting in London (Wokingham) a mini Workshop was held on: Services provided by System Operators

O.Gjerde WG C2/C5.05 Development and Changes in the Business of System Operators WG C2/C5.05 progress of work: (4) Will contribute to the tutorial ”Influence of Liberalization on System Operation” in Montreal 7 October 2003, during the Symposium: Quality and Security of Electric Power Delivery systems. WG C2/C will cover ”Organizational Aspects”: WG C will cover ”Human performance in control centres” WG C2 – 1 will cover ”Technical issues”

O.Gjerde WG C2/C5.05 Development and Changes in the Business of System Operators WG C2/C5.05 progress of work: (5) WG C2/C5.05 contribution: 09:00 – 09:10Introduction by Sture Larsson, Chairman SC C2 09:10 – 10:25Part A: “Organisational Aspects”: a) How to start a market. The driving forces, governance, role of regulator and System Operator (SO) Speaker: Al DiCaprio, PJM, Norristown, PA, USA b) Case studies from established markets - England & Wales Speaker: Les Clarke, National Grid Transco, Wokingham, UK - - Nordic Countries Speaker: Ole Gjerde, Statnett, Oslo, Norway 10:35 – 11:25Part A “Organisational Aspects” cont’ed c) Services provided by System Operators Speaker: Les Clarke, National Grid Transco, Wokingham, UK d) Congestion management solutions Speaker: Olav Bjarte Fosso, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway 11:25 – 11:35 Discussion (Chair: Ole Gjerde, Convener JWG C2/C5 – 05))

O.Gjerde WG C2/C5.05 Development and Changes in the Business of System Operators WG C2/C5.05 progress of work: (6) A paper is proposed for the Paris session 2004 with the title ”Electric Power System Operating Standards. A Search for Justification” and has been accepted The WG seeks to discuss the current set of international operating standards from different parts of the world, and to identify from a SO point of view how the market environment is changing the meaning of standards and how SOs respond to those standards

O.Gjerde WG C2/C5.05 Development and Changes in the Business of System Operators WG C2/C5.05 progress of work: (7) The WG is continuing working in the following four areas: –Congestion management –Operating reliability standards –Services provided by System Operators –TSO/ISO similarities and differences Subgroups created for each area