The ‘Good Practice of the Year’ award 2020 of the Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI) is one such source of inspiration meant to motivate and spur on players engaged in grid development to do more and to do better – when it comes to ‘Communication & Engagement’, ‘Environmental Protection’ and ‘Technological Innovation & System Integration’ – our three award categories. RGI have reported in a brochure many outstanding practices according to its jury of experts. In 2020, CROSSBOW has been selected as one of the favourite practices under the category “Technological Innovation & System Integration”, as shows the brochure.

The thesis aims to present innovative solutions for creating a harmonised European balancing market with lower balancing costs, through a made-up scenario of the South-east Europe (SEE) region integration. The scenario will demonstrate the cross-border balancing possibilities for the activation of the optimal bids to satisfy TSOs’ demands in the observed area. To achieve the goal of the thesis, an emphasis is put on frequency ancillary service’s standard product called Manual Frequency Restoration Reserve (mFRR) and the development of the mFRR platform within Horizon2020 project CROSSBOW. The solution presented in CROSSBOW project is a common system market platform for mFRR, which could act as a common European balancing market. Such a market could lower the balancing costs in the observed region by using cross-border balancing energy, hence increasing social welfare within the region. The benefits of mFRR platform are of great importance to the South-East European countries, including Slovenia. Activation of cross-border balancing energy with the help of Activation Optimization Function and Common Merit Order List and improved allocation of real-time Cross-Zonal Capacities ease the future process of harmonizing regulatory frameworks and legislation.

New BRIDGE Brochure includes 20 new H2020 projects: the brochure describes the initiative in some numbers, presenting the different areas that the project members address in terms of technologies or enabled services, their project partners, their geographical coverage and their fact sheets.

This study is intended to give a snapshot of the current situation of smart grids and smart meter penetration in the Energy Community, based on responses to questionnaires prepared by the Secretariat in consultation with members of the ECDSO-E coordination group. The report includes CROSSBOW as a case study.

The ‘Good Practice of the Year’ award 2019 of the Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI) is one such source of inspiration meant to motivate and spur on players engaged in grid development to do more and to do better – when it comes to ‘Communication & Engagement’, ‘Environmental Protection’ and ‘Technological Innovation & System Integration’ – our three award categories. RGI have reported in a brochure many outstanding practices according to its jury of experts. In 2020, CROSSBOW has been selected as one of the favourite practices under the category “Technological Innovation & System Integration”, as shows the brochure.

BRIDGE Brochure updated with 8 new H2020 projects: the brochure describes the initiative in some numbers, presenting the different areas that the project members address in terms of technologies or enabled services, their project partners, their geographical coverage and their fact sheets.

In 2017, the National Power Grid Company “Transelectrica” SA continued its power transmission grid development plan by completing a series of works relevant for the operational security of the national power system. This report presents the CROSSBOW project in which is partner.