1. 1 ETSO views on Transparency Urban Keussen Member of ETSO Steering Committee Head of Task Force on Congestion Managament ERGEG Public Hearing 6th July 2006

2. 2 Objective  Facilitate the IEM by  Optimal use of interconnection capacity between countries/regions by  Maximise available firm capacity for market participants without negative impact on operational security

3. 3 TSO’s role  TSO have to forecast available capacity; react on any intra day changes  data needed  Structure of data: time line: year/ month/ day ahead, intra day origin:TSO’s, market participants

4. 4 TSO as data collector TSO Generators, Traders Neighbouring TSO‘s - Installed capacity - Maintanance schedules - Generation schedules - outages - trader schedules - etc. long term mid term D-1 intra-day TSO - Grid development - Unavailability - Expected balance - Transformer settings - wind generation - capacity nomination - etc. long term mid term D-1 intra-day confidential

5. 5 TSO as data provider TSO Competitive market participants Neighbouring TSO‘s - aggregated NTC values - available capacity (long/-/mid-term,D-1,D) - conditions (firm or not) - economic figures - … - relevant grid data - generation data - trading data - flow data - … confidential public to be discussed aspects: -legal -operational -added value ?

6. 6  Legal  Some data is confidential and cannot be published  i.e. generation data in some countries  legal framework to be discussed and changed Aspects  Operational  Some of the data is not available to TSO  i.e. load data of the whole system  definition of data to be discussed and modified  added value  Some data are questionable due to added value  i.e. some extensive close to real time ex-post data  list of data to be discussed and modified

7. 7 ETSO data platform ‘GridView’  Vision  Establish: a European data platform  Basis: TSO data for market participants  Extension:Market data for market participants  Project  Project:launched by ETSO in June 2006  Target:operational in November 2006  Data:stepwise approach (flows etc)  Access:via internet free of charge  Dialog  ETSO conference on transparency 17th of November 2006 in Brussels

8. 8 ETSO views on Transparency Urban Keussen Member of ETSO Steering Committee Head of Task Force on Congestion Managament ERGEG Public Hearing 6th July 2006