Annual Report 2012 - Fingrid
Annual Report 2012 - Fingrid
Annual Report 2012 - Fingrid
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sion outage situations. The outages must be planned<br />
well in advance together with the customers. There<br />
will be particularly many outage arrangements in<br />
Ostrobothnia, where the present 220 and 110 kilovolt<br />
transmission lines between Pori and Oulu will<br />
be replaced with new 400 and 110 kilovolt double<br />
circuit structures in 2013 - 2016.<br />
A new connection fee for connection to the transmission<br />
grid was introduced in early <strong>2012</strong>. This fee<br />
will be applied to new agreements. The goal is to<br />
amend the existing agreements to conform to the<br />
new practice in conjunction with the modernisation<br />
of substations. The new practice aims at increasingly<br />
unambiguous tariff structure and impartial treatment<br />
of customers.<br />
The reform of the general connection terms and<br />
the specifications for the operational performance<br />
of power plants was prepared so that the customers<br />
and stakeholders submitted their opinions of them<br />
during the autumn. The Energy Market Authority<br />
confirmed in December that the general connection<br />
terms (YLE2013) must be followed from 1 January<br />
2013. The specifications for the operational performance<br />
of power plants (VJV2013) will also be renewed<br />
in early 2013.<br />
<strong>Fingrid</strong> arranged discussion and information sessions<br />
for its stakeholders concerning several European<br />
network codes which are being prepared.<br />
These codes cover issues such as connection of electricity<br />
production and consumption, electricity market<br />
rules, and system operation rules. <strong>Fingrid</strong> has<br />
aimed to activate the stakeholders to express an<br />
opinion as early as during the preparation of the<br />
codes, because once they have been adopted, they<br />
become binding legislation in Finland.<br />
The energy sector has been awaiting the entry into<br />
force of the new Electricity Market Act for some<br />
time now. The new act will likely specify further the<br />
responsibilities of the transmission system operator,<br />
and the responsibilities and scopes of the nation-<br />
PRICE OF GRID SERVICE IN FINLAND AND ELSEWHERE, ENTSO-E’S TARIFF COMPARISON <strong>2012</strong>*<br />
30<br />
25<br />
20<br />
15<br />
10<br />
5<br />
0<br />
Austria<br />
Belgium<br />
Bosnia and<br />
Herzegovina<br />
Bulgaria<br />
Croatia<br />
€/MWh<br />
Czech Rep.<br />
Denmark<br />
Estonia<br />
Finland<br />
France<br />
Germany<br />
Great Britain<br />
Greece<br />
Hungary<br />
Ireland<br />
Italy<br />
Latvia<br />
Lithuania<br />
Luxembourg<br />
FYROM<br />
Netherlands<br />
N. Ireland<br />
Norway<br />
Poland<br />
Portugal<br />
Romania<br />
Serbia<br />
Slovak Rep.<br />
Slovenia<br />
Spain<br />
Sweden<br />
Switzerland<br />
Costs related to transmission system operation, such as capital expenditure, loss energy, system services.<br />
400–380 kV 220–150 kV 132–50 kV<br />
Other costs not directly related to transmission system operation, such as public service obligations,<br />
feed-in tariffs for renewable energy, peak load capacity, miscellaneous.<br />
*based partly on preliminary information<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2012</strong> 13
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