Cross-border intraday electricity market to be extended to Northern Europe

10-06-2010 In order to meet the European market's increasing needs for flexibility, transmission system operators  Elia and TenneT are working at further optimization of the use of  interconnections for cross-border trade.  In close co-operation with the power exchanges involved in the process, the TSOs are optimizing intraday cross-border capacity between Belgium and the Netherlands by means of a mechanism that enables integrated intraday trade between Belgium, the Netherlands and the North European market (Nordpool).

The power exchanges involved and the transmission system operators are hereto elaborating a mechanism enabling integrated intraday trade; it is expected to be operational by fall this year.
The initiative is an intermediate step leading to an intraday market integrating the entire North West European market.
TenneT and Elia consider this project as an important step towards an integrated European intraday market. To this aim, all TSOs of North West Europe have recently launched a project for developing a consistent North West European wide intraday market, covering France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.