Capacity Allocation & Congestion Management

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The CACM Regulation focuses on methods for coupling the European electricity markets in the time range of day-ahead and intraday trading.

The CACM Regulation of July 24, 2015 prescribes pan-European rules for all grid operators, exchanges and market participants in the European electricity sector. The central element is the coordination and harmonization of capacity calculation and capacity allocation for the cross-border day-ahead and intraday markets with the aim of fully coupling the European electricity markets in the time range of day-ahead and intraday trading.

The regulation contains numerous obligations for the transmission system operators to create various methodologies and processes. The methodologies to be implemented by the five German TSOs at national level and as part of regional or Europe-wide initiatives are published on the website of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E).

All methodologies developed by the European transmission system operators under the CACM Regulation must be approved by the respective national regulatory authorities (in Germany this is the Federal Network Agency) or by the European regulatory authority ACER. These approvals are published on the two linked pages.

Public Consultation of the amended methodology for the explicit intraday allocation on the French-German border open until 18th January 2025

Amprion, RTE and TransnetBW are consulting the amended methodology for the explicit intraday allocation on the French-German border. The reason of the planned update is the go-live of the 15-Minute-Market Time Unit (MTU) for the intraday timeframe, which is planned for 22nd January 2025 (see here for more details). Previous versions of the methodology can be found here. Stakeholders are invited to send their comments or questions to Regulierungsmanagement@amprion.net and via rte-marches-interco-decomptes@rte-france.com by 18th January 2025. According to Article 9(13) and Article 64(2) of the CACM Regulation, the proposal for an amendment will have to be approved by the German and French National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) Bundesnetzagentur and CRE afterwards.

The methodology you can find here.