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  • EUROPEX elects new Chairman: José Carvalho Netto, Chairman and CEO of OMIE S.A. and OMIP S.G.M.R., S.A. and welcomes three new members: CEGH A.G. (Austria), OKTE S.A. (Slovakia) and SEMO (Ireland)

    EUROPEX members, in their General Assembly of 22/11/2011 in Brussels, have elected José Carvalho Netto, Chairman and CEO of both OMIE S.A. (the Spanish Management Company operating the Iberian Spot Market) and OMIP S.G.M.R., S.A. (the Portuguese office of the Iberian Market Operator for Forward Market) as Chairman of EUROPEX and will chair the Association, according to its statutes, for a two years term, starting in January 2012.

    The General Assembly also warmly welcomes Central European Gas Hub AG (CEGH AG) of Austria, Slovak Power Exchange (OKTE S.A.) and Single Electricity Market Operator (SEMO) of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as new full members of EUROPEX as of today.

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  • EUROPEX publishes a Position Paper on Guarantees of Origin Market Platform: A Possible Role of Organized Markets

    Functioning markets need balanced supply-demand drivers as well as standardization and ease of trading. Currently, demand is driven by various national specifics and to a lesser extent by voluntary demand by consumers. Due to the eligibility of all renewables, irrespective of size and plant age, supply and demand are not balanced. The new Directive goes further regarding standardization, but does not provide with harmonized scheme and tools...

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  • EUROPEX General Assembly took note of the progress achieved so far by the Price Coupling of Regions (PCR) project

    EUROPEX members, in their General Assembly of 9th May in Lisbon, unanimously took note of the progress achieved so far by the Price Coupling of Regions (PCR) project and reconfirmed their support to this challenging project.

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  • ACER Annual Conference

    The Agency for the Cooperation of the Energy Regulators (ACER) will be organizing its first annual conference “Making the internal energy market a reality - which role for ACER?” on 14 March 2012 - Castle of Ljubljana, where EUROPEX and some of our members will be speaking particularly on the Internal Electricity Market: Implementing the Roadmaps; the Internal Gas Market: Vision and Implementation; and Market Transparency and Integrity.

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  • RECS Market Meeting 2012

    EUROPEX is a supporting association of the RECS Market Meeting 2012 that will take place in Amsterdam on 21 and 22 March.

    The focus of the conference is about the origin of demand: consumers. The key question to be addressed in the 2012 RECS Market Meeting will be: “Who is purchasing renewable electricity and why?”

    According to RECS, it’s important for consumers to know that renewable electricity is robust and reliable, and that is why the RECS Market Meeting focuses on the Guarantee of Origin (GO) – the tool that makes the market for renewable electricity transparent.

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EUROPEX publishes a Position Paper on Guarantees of Origin Market Platform: A Possible Role of Organized Markets

 

Fostering GO Trading: A Possible Role of Organized Markets


The new Directive 2009/28/EC of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources defines the content and purpose of guarantees of origin (GO) more in depth than the previous, now repealed, so called “RES-E” Directive from 2001. Most importantly, it clearly states the GO purpose, defines the minimum information content, keeps the obligation from the RES-E Directive to recognise GO from other Member States pending certain criteria, pays due attention to avoidance of double counting and also introduces at least some elements of standardization... Download the full document.