South East Europe Coordinated Auction Office Implementation Group (SEE CAO IG)
The SEE CAO IG has been established by the 10th Athens Forum and acts as coordination platform bringing together Transmission System Operators (TSOs), regulators and traders with a view to discussing the establishment of a SEE CAO.
Regulatory input is thereby coordinated in the ECRB EWG, TSO positions are coordinated in the responsible Sub-Group of ENTSO-E and traders are represented by EFET. Specific input on TSO related tasks as defined in the draft Action Plan shall come from the SEE CAO Project Team.
As already in 2009 the South East Europe Coordinated Auction Office Implementation Group will follow the process of establishing the Coordinated Auction Office and the tasks related to this process as described in the Action Plan for establishing a Coordinated Auction Office in the SEE region. The CAO IG will take into account the latest results from the studies on “Legal requirements for establishing a CAO” and “Final establishment of a coordinated congestion management in SEE”.
The expected advantages of a Coordinated auction Office are:
Better utilisation of existing cross border capacities without jeopardizing system security;
Higher degree of market harmonisation due to coordinated capacity allocation to the SEE region;
Simplicity in handling for market participants (“one-stop-shop” solution).
