<p><a data-val="4b3419aef810470da6a8d3852ca8865c" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/monthly_market_report_12_2019.pdf" data-linktype="internal">Monthly report OTE for December 2019.pdf</a></p>

<p>The following documents for electricity can be also found on the <a data-val="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/electricity-documentation/electricity-documentation" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/../../../documentation/electricity-documentation/electricity-documentation" data-linktype="external">Electricity documentation</a> page, valid from 21.1.2020.</p> <p>Directly links to the documents for electricity:</p> <ul> <li><a data-val="247721c2675a4506b1ee7c4b769bc43b" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/electricity-documentation/dokumentace-elektrina-1/d1-4-2_en_xml_message_formats_electricity_valid_from_21-1-2020.docx" data-linktype="internal">D1.4.2 XML message formats.docx</a></li> <li><a data-val="4f543985e77945f78b6f8cd8596530d6" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/electricity-documentation/dokumentace-elektrina-1/d1-4-2_xsd_templates_electricity_valid_from_21-1-2020.zip" data-linktype="internal">D1.4.2 XSD templates</a></li> <li><a data-val="3943180670344e8b8d92179e637afc1e" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/electricity-documentation/dokumentace-elektrina-1/wsdl_templates_electricity_valid_from_21-1-2020.zip" data-linktype="internal">WSDL templates</a><br /> </li> </ul>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In 2019, the volume of electricity traded on OTE’s Day-Ahead Electricity Market reached the new annual maximum of 23.79 TWh, Intra-day Electricity Market volume exceeded 1 TWh and also reached a new annual maximum of 1.11 TWh. And the volume of gas traded on OTE’s Intraday Gas Market exceeded 3 TWh and reached the new annual maximum of 4.67 TWh.</strong></p> <p><br /><strong>Organized short-term electricity market:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The Day-Ahead Electricity Market continued to grow in 2019, when 23.79 TWh of electricity was traded. This represents a year-on-year increase of 3.9% compared to 2018, when 22.89 TWh was traded and this amount of electricity traded on this market was exceeded on 16 December 2019. In 2019, the average price of trades on the Day-Ahead Electricity Market (Baseload 2019) was EUR 40.21/MWh. Compared to 2018, this is a year-on-year decline in prices of 13%. The increase in the volume of traded electricity confirms the growing trend in trading on the Day-Ahead Electricity Market in recent years.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In 2019, 1.11 TWh was traded on the Intra-day Electricity Market, representing a year-on-year increase of 102% compared to 2018, when 0.55 TWh was traded. The volume of trading on the Intra-day Electricity Market is more than double that of the last year, as a result of joining the international cross-border intra-day electricity market (SIDC, former XBID project). Within 42 days of its launch on 19 November, 564.66 GWh was traded, that is exceeding the traded quantity for the whole of 2018. An average daily volume in this period was 13.44 GWh.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">On the Block market was traded 5.41 GWh of electricity in 2019.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">A total volume of 24,91 TWh was traded on OTE’s short-term electricity markets and this is more than a third of domestic electricity consumption. This represents an increase of 6,2 % compared to the year 2018, when there was traded 23.46 TWh.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Access to short-term electricity markets had 121 market participants as of 31 December 2019.</p> <p><br /><strong>Organized short-term gas market:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The highest annual volume of gas (4.67 TWh) was reached on the Intraday Gas Market in 2019. It represents year-on-year increase of 52,7 % compared to the year 2018, when the total volume of 3,06 TWh was traded. It is also.<br />In addition to the Intraday Gas Market, OTE also organizes a Market with Flexibility. Access to short-term gas markets had 98 market participants as of 31 December 2019.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We value the confidence of market participants in our trading platforms, without which such significant increases in the amount of traded electricity and gas on the OTE\'s organized short-term markets would not occur. The continuing international integration of the Day-Ahead Electricity Market and, in particular, the completion of the Intra-day Electricity Market integration in November 2019, are also a major contributor to the growth in traded volumes of electricity.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We also pay close attention to the development of trading platforms. The most visible technological innovation in 2019 was the launch of the <a data-val="f60ab51543fa4bf0b80de5d0b5cf2a9e" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/ote-news/new-ote-mobile-app" data-linktype="internal">mobile app for Intraday Gas Market available</a> for both Android and iOS devices.<br /><br />In 2020, we plan to expand this mobile application for trading on the Intra-day Electricity Market and <a data-val="f0fbf11bb0224e06af679926a2f7865a" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/ote-news/countries-of-4m-market-coupling-to-be-connected-with-multi-regional-coupling-by-end-of-2020-and-interim-coupling-project-enters-implementation-phase" data-linktype="internal">continue to further integration</a> of already interconnected 4M MC (CZ-SK-HU-RO) Day-Ahead Electricity Market with the MRC region.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We believe that not only through these steps, but also within the overall activities of OTE, we will continue to contribute to the further development of international cooperation and energy trading in the Czech Republic.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a data-val="f7364f4baa2241fdbf8e413d666975fc" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/2020_01_06_the_volumes_traded_on_otes_short-term_electricity_and_gas_markets_are_constantly_growing.pdf" data-linktype="internal">Press release.pdf</a></p>

<p>OTE publishes XML message formats and XSD templates electricity on page Documentation Electricity for Suggestions, valid from 21.1.2020, to market participants suggestions.</p> <p>Suggestions are to be sent to <a href="mailto:jhodanek@ote-cr.cz" data-linktype="email" data-val="jhodanek@ote-cr.cz">jhodanek@ote-cr.cz</a> until 7. January 2020 at the latest.</p> <p>Directly links to the documents:</p> <ul> <li><a data-val="2a6907dce8eb4815bd66f1492c39e3b8" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/files-electricity-for-suggestions/d1-4-2_en_xml_message_formats_electricity_for-suggestions_7-1-2020.docx" data-linktype="internal">D1.4.2 XML message formats for suggestions.docx</a></li> <li><a data-val="1888e31314004e35ada413966510121a" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/files-electricity-for-suggestions/d1-4-2_xsd_templates_electricity_for-suggestions_7-1-2020.zip" data-linktype="internal">D1.4.2 XSD templates for suggestions</a></li> </ul>

<p><strong>SPP CZ,</strong> a balance responsible party in both power and gas markets, will newly have access to the short-term power markets organized by OTE with effect from 1st January 2020. As of 1st January 2020 the short-term power markets will have 121 members and the short-term gas market will have 97 members.</p>

<p><strong>Férová energie, s.r.o.</strong> was terminated in the central system OTE as a balance responsible party as of 31. 12. 2019. Currently the short-term power market has 120 members and the short-term gas market 97 members.</p>

<p><a data-val="e9535f0a6b574013860eda189d778824" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/monthly_market_report_11_2019.pdf" data-linktype="internal">Monthly report OTE for November 2019.pdf</a></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In 2019, the short-term electricity and gas markets organized by OTE are experiencing a significant increase in trading. We are pleased with the interest of traders in trading on our platforms. The successful integration of the intraday electricity market at the end of November this year also contributed to this increase.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The day-ahead electricity market, which reached the five-year anniversary of its interconnection with the Slovak, Hungarian and Romanian power markets (4M MC) on 19 November, has shown an upward trend in recent years. On Monday, December 16, 2019, the volume of trades concluded on this platform exceeded the volume of the year 2018, when the total amount of electricity traded was 22,892 GWh. Currently, 23 069 GWh of electricity was traded during the period from 1 January 2019 to 19 December 2019.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/01_konec_roku.png/@@images/1c1d702c-a20c-4a29-8c88-332fa574990e.png" data-linktype="image" title="01_konec_roku.png" data-val="b0ae25504fda47e6963ffa327dd8f23d" data-scale="large" alt="01_konec_roku.png" class="image-inline" /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In the intra-day electricity market, last year\'s maximum (550 GWh) was exceeded on Thursday, 20 November 2019, the first day after connecting to SIDC (XBID). Currently, 935 GWh of electricity was traded on IM Power, which is 385 GWh more than in 2018, representing an increase of 70% compared to 2018.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/02_konec_roku.png/@@images/507e9d42-a5b1-419e-9abc-879004199f1b.png" data-linktype="image" title="02_konec_roku.png" data-val="cdfdfcb87f8143c083467cea82bc0279" data-scale="large" alt="02_konec_roku.png" class="image-inline" /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Overall, on the day-ahead and intra-day electricity markets, a total of 24,009 GWh was traded from 1 January 2019 to 19 December 2019, which represents 1.5 times the annual production of the Temelín NPP (15.66 TWh in 2018) and also 38.6% of the domestic net consumption in 2018.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">A record annual amount of gas was reached on the intraday gas market as of 30.10.2019. The current amount of traded gas for 2019 is 4,414 GWh, which represents a 44% increase compared to 2018. Additionally, there was an 18% increase compared to 2017, when the highest amount of gas was traded in the history of the intraday gas market.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/03_konec_roku.png/@@images/167e5a38-3fec-4fa8-8d31-1aa2d937c1a9.png" data-linktype="image" title="03_konec_roku.png" data-val="94b9dc1335de490ab25ed8eb75021725" data-scale="large" alt="03_konec_roku.png" class="image-inline" /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">OTE believes that this trend will continue. <em>“The results achieved are both a commitment and a challenge for us to bring reliable and user-friendly solutions to market participants,”</em> says Jakub Šrom, Head of Energy Markets department.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Igor Chemišinec, a Member of the Board of Directors at OTE added: <em>"We would also like to thank everyone for trusting in our trading platforms and the whole of OTE, and at the same time we would like to wish our market participants a merry Christmas and all the best in 2020."</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">For the upcoming period, OTE is working on further integration of the day-ahead electricity market. At the same time, we are responding to current digitization trends and service standards in this area by developing new trading opportunities on our short-term electricity and gas markets. An example is the newly available <a data-val="c301ab0eda0f440695a9f522bc5f1fc8" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/short-term-markets/gas/mobile-application-ote-im-gas" data-linktype="internal">mobile application</a> for trading on the intraday gas market.</p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"><a data-val="098678ce042d4b51a0f9d05f9dab98d3" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/2019_12_19_end_of_the_year_at_otes_organized_markets_marked_by_records_sidc_en.pdf" data-linktype="internal">Press release.pdf</a></li> </ul>

<p><strong>Inertia Energy (CZ) s.r.o.</strong> was terminated in the central system OTE as a balance responsible party with the access to short-term power market organized by OTE as of 31. 12. 2019. Currently the short-term power market has 120 members and the short-term gas market 98 members.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The market operator brings new possibilities for trading on the intraday gas market by introducing a mobile application. The OTE IM Gas application allows to market participants easily trade and continuously monitor the current state of the market and the development of trading.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The OTE IM gas application is designed for smartphones and tablets and allows to operatively trade and continuously monitor the current state of the market. Through the mobile application, market participants also have the opportunity to receive important news from the intraday gas market and respond flexibly to them. The launch of this mobile application responds to the wishes of market participants expressed in surveys conducted in previous years. The OTE IM Gas application complements the existing tools: OTE-COM and automatic communication. When trading, you can be logged in to the IM gas desktop application and simultaneously to the mobile application on all registered mobile devices.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The OTE IM Gas mobile app can now be downloaded on <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.otecr.mobile.vdp.production" data-linktype="external" data-val="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.otecr.mobile.vdp.production">Google Play</a> and installed on the Android (mobile phone/tablet) mobile devices. The launch of the iOS version of the application through AppleStore is scheduled in the first quarter of 2020. This <a data-val="bd2ef71480a74795b318ccd36b6e30e5" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/short-term-markets/gas/files-i-information/app_im_gas.pdf" data-linktype="internal">presentation</a> provides basic overview on mobile application for IM Gas.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We believe the mobile app OTE IM Gas will help you expand your trading opportunities on the intraday gas market.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">More information is available on our <a data-val="c301ab0eda0f440695a9f522bc5f1fc8" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/short-term-markets/gas/mobile-application-ote-im-gas" data-linktype="internal">website</a>.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">It has been already the second application that OTE proposes to its business partners. Already in 2017, an application for producers with small supported photovoltaic sources was launched, which allows sending data from reports on generated and consumed electricity to the OTE information system.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Following the successful interconnection of the intraday electricity market under the SIDC/XBID project, which took place in November 2019, the market operator is now working intensively on modifying this mobile application so that it is also available for access and trading on the intraday electricity market. Its launch is planned for the first half of 2020.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/short-term-markets/gas/files-i-information/ote_vdt_gas_icon.png/@@images/fa9e25e4-7a48-4308-8d93-262ca55e17a2.png" data-linktype="image" title="OTE_VDT_Gas_icon.png" data-val="566ec1a2f4774a29a5934738da003097" data-scale="large" alt="OTE_VDT_Gas_icon.png" class="image-inline" /> <img src="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/short-term-markets/gas/files-i-information/ote_com_gas.png/@@images/fbec021d-0cbb-4648-b1d9-b3ffe52a355a.png" data-linktype="image" title="ote_com_gas.png" data-val="1066734c3424490eb188905bd0ca6e33" data-scale="mini" alt="ote_com_gas.png" class="image-inline" /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/short-term-markets/gas/files-i-information/ote_com_gas_2.png/@@images/3db40d4c-dda8-4a57-9f65-197b803cde28.png" data-linktype="image" title="ote_com_gas_2.png" data-val="bc3181a2795045319c99a9ebdc6377be" data-scale="large" alt="ote_com_gas_2.png" class="image-inline" /> </p>

<ul> <li>Subsidized Renewable Energy Sources specialist</li> <li>Electricity Balance specialist</li> <li>Gas Balance specialist</li> </ul> <p> Details about this vacancy are available only in <a data-val="https://www.ote-cr.cz/cs/kariera" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/../../../../cs/kariera" data-linktype="external">Czech</a>.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The annual report 2018 prepared by the Nominated Electricity Market Operators* in cooperation with Transmission System Operators monitors the implementation of the Capacity Allocation and Congestion Management Regulation (CACM) and the associated Algorithm methodology and it provides a comprehensive overview of the single day-ahead and intraday coupling operations in 2018.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Link to the published annual report and also more information can be found in the attached <a data-val="ddf4ce0b67324275aca3229a926ab83b" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/press_release_cacm_annual_report_2018.pdf" data-linktype="internal">press release</a> or <a href="http://www.nemo-committee.eu/publications" data-linktype="external" data-val="http://www.nemo-committee.eu/publications">here</a>.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">*OTE was established as Nominated Electricity Operator in October 2015.</p>

<p>The following documents for gas can be also found on the <a data-val="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/gas-documentation/gas-documentation" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/../../../documentation/gas-documentation/gas-documentation" data-linktype="external">Gas documentation</a> page, valid from 17.12.2019.</p> <p>Directly links to the documents for gas:</p> <ul> <li><a data-val="94529d8230614e559bdc1eac9c820d6d" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/gas-documentation/gas-documentation-files/d1-4-2g_en_xml_message_formats_gas_valid_from_17-12-2019.docx" data-linktype="internal">D1.4.2G XML message formats.docx</a></li> <li><a data-val="0ad7f9e003d34de9a2d5873ced35bc26" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/gas-documentation/gas-documentation-files/d1-4-2g_xsd_templates_gas_valid_from_17-12-2019.zip" data-linktype="internal">D1.4.2G XSD templates</a></li> <li><a data-val="888db55faed0440b9c5f6ca81e648c27" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/gas-documentation/gas-documentation-files/wsdl_templates_gas_valid_from_17-12-2019.zip" data-linktype="internal">WSDL templates</a></li> </ul>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Nominated Electricity Market Operators (NEMOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs) from Austria, Germany, Poland and the 4M Market Coupling (4M MC) countries, namely the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, announce the connection of 4M MC with the Multi Regional Coupling (MRC) foreseen in Q3 2020. The DE-AT-PL-4M MC Project, also referred to as Interim Coupling project, has completed the design phase and now enters its implementation phase.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">More information can be found in the enclosed <a data-val="7afaa3a7f8374a4ba26324f1d0a6bb51" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/joint_press_release_interim_coupling_continuation_of_the_project_november_2019_fin_eng_fin.pdf" data-linktype="internal">press release</a>.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The success of the operation of coupled intra-day market in Czech Republic has been confirmed by first fourteen days of operation.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">On 19th November 2019, the company OTE, a.s., (market operator, OTE), according to the Commission Regulation 2015/1222 of 24 July 2015 establishing a guideline on capacity allocation and congestion management (CACM) in a position of nominated electricity market operator (NEMO), joined successfully the European Single Intraday Coupling of electricity markets (SIDC, formerly referred to as XBID), in the frame of the 2nd wave implementation. OTE has been hugely cooperating with the Czech transmission system operator (TSO), company ČEPS, a.s., on the implementation of this European project.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">“The results of the first 14 days of operation have positively exceeded our expectations,” says Jakub Šrom, Head of the Market Department. Second go-live of the single intraday coupling (SIDC, formerly also known as XBID) has expanded the continuous trading of electricity across the following countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovenia. They have joined the existing countries already operating the SIDC: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. Already in the first hours of the interconnected market the frequency of trades exceeded the expected results. As stated in the press release dated 20 November 2019, more than 1,000 were closed in the first 2 hours of cross-border trading on the day of delivery on 20 November 2019 with a total volume of about 1,400 MWh. During the night there were trades between the Czech Republic and countries such as Germany, Finland, Spain, Estonia, Croatia and others.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The market coupling of the day-ahead and intra-day market, as required by the CACM Regulation, leads to the removal of barriers to cross-border trading and supports one of the fundamental principles on which European cooperation is based, ensuring the free movement of goods, persons and services. The energy market segmented into national markets, although physically interconnected, is inefficient and trading on such market bears greater risks for traders, thus appears to be more expensive. While the interconnection of electricity markets is primarily intended to facilitate trading and reduce losses from inefficient use of cross-border capacities, the overall impact seems to be much wider. For traders, by unifying business rules, market coupling makes it easier to enter various European markets and expand their business opportunities. For TSOs, the market coupling increases the efficiency of the use of cross-border profiles. As for the final customer, the launch of a single electricity market brings increased security in electricity supply as well as benefits resulting from a wider choice of supplier through increased competition in individual markets. In the overall context, this leads to pressure on the unregulated component of the electricity price for the final customer.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">During the first 14 days of cross-border trading, 162,666 MWh was traded on IM, which is approximately 30 percent of the volumes traded in 2018 (approximately 550,170 MWh was traded on IM in 2018). Out of this volumes, 105 816 MWh was exported, 51 420 MWh imported and 4 391 MWh traded internally. The launch of single intraday market resulted in a tenfold increase in concluded trades from an average of less than 400 trades per day to less than 4,000 trades per day. On average almost 500 trades are closed on IM per hour.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This marks an important step in market integration and international cooperation, which has confirmed the market operator as a full and reliable partner in such a demanding international project involving many European countries.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><strong>The complete Press Release (incl. Graphs) to be downloaded here:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><a data-val="4702a601e4bc406d970abea05f1c2329" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/12_06_2018_sidc_14_days.pdf" data-linktype="internal">Press release.pdf</a></p>

<p>The following documents for electricity can be also found on the <a data-val="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/electricity-documentation/electricity-documentation" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/../../../documentation/electricity-documentation/electricity-documentation" data-linktype="external">Electricity documentation</a> page, valid from 17.12.2019.</p> <p>Directly links to the documents for electricity:</p> <ul> <li><a data-val="1e0f513bef244d1492e1cc5a009d72ca" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/electricity-documentation/dokumentace-elektrina-1/d1-4-2_en_xml_message_formats_electricity_valid_from_17-12-2019.docx" data-linktype="internal">D1.4.2 XML message formats.docx</a></li> <li><a data-val="fadafb5339f446d598345d60b42495bc" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/electricity-documentation/dokumentace-elektrina-1/d1-4-2_xsd_templates_electricity_valid_from_17-12-2019.zip" data-linktype="internal">D1.4.2 XSD templates</a></li> <li><a data-val="613548eade3c4e59b30115c8c8a83a1c" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/electricity-documentation/dokumentace-elektrina-1/wsdl_templates_electricity_valid_from_17-12-2019.zip" data-linktype="internal">WSDL templates</a><br /> </li> </ul>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Nominated Electricity Market Operators (NEMOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs) confirm the successful go-live of the second launch of SIDC (formerly known as XBID). In the first two hours after cross-border trading opened on 19th November, OTE, the Czech NEMO, reported that more than 1 000 trades were completed for delivery on 20th November. The Croatian NEMO, CROPEX, recorded trades with market participants in 16 different countries including Norway and Spain. HUPX, the Hungarian NEMO, reported an increase in traded volumes of nearly 14 times in the five days following go-live, compared to the five prior to the launch. In Bulgaria, IBEX states that the average number of trades has doubled since the go-live and OPCOM, the Romanian NEMO, also reports a near doubling of both traded volumes and number of trades. In Slovenia, BSP Southpool has stated that for the period after go-live, compared to the equivalent period in 2018, it has seen an eight-fold increase in traded volume (11 672 MWh compared to 1 425 MWh). Meanwhile in Poland, TGE has achieved a daily average of over 2 000 MWh since go-live, which is a more than nine-fold increase when compared to the 2018 intraday daily average of 212 MWh. More information can be found in the attached <a data-val="c6d6fcf4b6964cb6a6ae4ea482a7223b" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/2019_11_28_press_release_for_sidc_2nd_wave_successful_go-live_final_eng.pdf" data-linktype="internal">press release</a>.</p>

<p>OTE publishes XML message formats and XSD templates electricity on page Documentation Electricity for Suggestions, valid from 17.12.2019, to market participants suggestions.</p> <p>Suggestions are to be sent to jhodanek@ote-cr.cz until 3. October 2019 at the latest.</p> <p>Directly links to the documents:</p> <ul> <li><a data-val="22c13de89553434daf9b58a2e81a4353" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/files-electricity-for-suggestions/d1-4-2_en_xml_message_formats_electricity_for_suggestions_until_3-12-2019.docx" data-linktype="internal">D1.4.2 XML message formats for suggestions.docx</a></li> <li><a data-val="e13f18cb298446aeaebcdee342af4709" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/files-electricity-for-suggestions/d1-4-2_xsd_templates_electricity_for_suggestions_until_3-12-2019.zip" data-linktype="internal">D1.4.2 XSD templates for suggestions</a></li> </ul>

<p><a data-val="f4451518f4214c729fe53714d7b62f65" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/monthly_market_report_10_2019.pdf" data-linktype="internal">Monthly report OTE for October 2019.pdf</a></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday, on 19th November 2019, the company OTE, a.s., (market operator, OTE), joined successfully the European Single Intraday Coupling (SIDC) of electricity markets, in the frame of the 2nd wave implementation. At 13:00 CET, the trading for the delivery day 19th November opened within SIDC. Till the end of the day, this trading was going on without cross-border capacities allocation, only in the frame of the Czech Republic. Immediately after the trading opened, first 4 bids were submitted through the platform, coming from four different electricity traders. From the market participants perspective, the trading was going on as usually, in the frame of the Czech Republic, nonetheless the matching of orders was proceeded already in the new system XBID. The first matching of orders, leading to the first trade, was realized at 13:23 CET.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Trading for the delivery day 20th November 2019 started on 19th November 2019 at 15:00 CET. Cross-border capacities for that day were submitted by the TSOs at 21:55 CET. From this moment on there have been bids submitted on foreign platforms up to the level of available cross-border capacities visible and available to Czech market participants. The first cross-border trade occurred only 1 minute later. During the first 15 minutes, 70 trades were concluded, of which 60 were cross-border, with a total volume of 331 MWh. During the first 2 hours of cross-border trading, more than 1,000 trades with a total volume of 1,400 MWh were concluded on the delivery day 20th November 2019. During the night there were trades between the Czech Republic and countries such as Germany, Finland, Spain, Estonia, Croatia and others.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Aleš Tomec, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of OTE company stated: <em>„We achieved one of OTE company strategic goals after seven years of intensive work on the preparation of XBID project assignment, followed by countless meetings in international groups and search for optimal solutions. For market participants and consumers in the Czech Republic it means that the electricity is not limited by borders and can be traded almost throughout the whole continent within the intraday market. The next great milestone will be coupling of the day-ahead markets, where we hope for the same success in the following year or 2021 at latest.”</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Igor Chemišinec, a Member of the Board of Directors of OTE company concluded: <em>„It is a breakthrough in international trading with electricity and fulfilment of CACM regulation in the Czech Republic. I would like to thank all participating parties and OTE employees for their excellent work.”</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Second go-live of the single intraday coupling (SIDC, formerly also known as XBID) has expanded the continuous trading of electricity across the following countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovenia. They have joined the existing countries already operating the SIDC: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><a data-val="98d26020fc7d44e0a621bda1bab700c9" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/2019_11_20_integration_of_ote_to_the_cross-border_trading_on_ote_intra-day_market_in_the_frame_of_sidc.pdf" data-linktype="internal">Press release.pdf</a></p>