<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>

<p><strong><span style="font-family: \'Calibri\',sans-serif;">ELEKTRIX S.A.</span></strong> was terminated in the central system OTE as a balance responsible party with the access to short-term gas and power markets organized by OTE as of 30. 11. 2019. Currently the short-term power market has 121 members and the short-term gas market 98 members.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Nominated Electricity Market Operators (NEMOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs) confirm the go-live for the second launch of SIDC (formerly known as XBID). This confirmation follows the successful completion of testing. At the go-live all borders in the coupled 7 countries will be active apart from the Swedish/Polish border, which will be temporarily set to ‘inactive’ status, whilst outstanding issues are resolved. Multiple NEMO arrangements are implemented in Poland. Nevertheless, Nordpool EMCO, for the initial period from the 2nd Go-Live, will be the single shipper in Poland.</p> <p>More information can be found in the attached <a data-val="b11bb010d5c842af858b11b66df60761" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/2019_11_18_press_release_for_2nd_wave_go-live_confirmation_and_updatev1-0.pdf" data-linktype="internal">press release</a>.</p>

<p>OTE, a.s., published a new version of the OTE Business Terms for the Power Sector (Revision 29 – November 2019) and a new version of the OTE Business Terms for the Gas Sector (Revision 17 – November 2019). The new versions were approved by the Energy Regulatory Office on the 13^th November 2019 and became effective as of the 15^th November 2019.<br /> <br />The documents can be found here:</p> <ul> <li><a data-val="3ee363120bd8432d8eb4224783a24e0c" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/registration-and-agreements/electricity-agreements/files-business-terms/OTE_Business_Terms_for_the_Power_Sector.pdf" data-linktype="internal">OTE Business Terms for the Power Sector.pdf</a></li> <li><a data-val="a20237e0c39f474ab75497e0699f56bb" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/registration-and-agreements/gas-agreements/files-registration-procedure-gas/Business_Terms_of_OTE_as_for_the_Gas_Sector.pdf" data-linktype="internal">OTE Business Terms for the Gas Sector.pdf</a></li> </ul>

<p>Updated source files for Load Profiles in gas sector for 2020 can be found on page Documentation - <a data-val="61afc050869d454aaf7f51f61e1ff0e2" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/gas-documentation/tdd-documentation" data-linktype="internal">Gas-documentation</a>. Update includes normalized gas Load Profiles and computed gas Load Profiles according to model for 2020.</p> <p>Direct Link:</p> <ul> <li><a data-val="https://www.ote-cr.cz/cs/dokumentace/dokumentace-plyn/files_dokumentace/normalizovane_tdd310_2020_2023.xlsx" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/../../../cs/dokumentace/dokumentace-plyn/files_dokumentace/normalizovane_tdd310_2020_2023.xlsx" data-linktype="external">Normalizovane_TDD_plyn_2020 [Czech only].xlsx</a></li> <li><a data-val="https://www.ote-cr.cz/cs/dokumentace/dokumentace-plyn/files_dokumentace/prepoctene_tdd310_2016_2019.xlsx" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/../../../cs/dokumentace/dokumentace-plyn/files_dokumentace/prepoctene_tdd310_2016_2019.xlsx" data-linktype="external">Přepočtené TDD_plyn_2020 [Czech only].xlsx</a></li> <li><a data-val="https://www.ote-cr.cz/cs/dokumentace/dokumentace-plyn/files_dokumentace/verze_3-10_pro_rok_2020.zip" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/../../../cs/dokumentace/dokumentace-plyn/files_dokumentace/verze_3-10_pro_rok_2020.zip" data-linktype="external">Zdrojové soubory 2020 [Czech only].zip</a></li> </ul>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Nominated Electricity Market Operators (NEMOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs) confirm the target date for the launch of SIDC (formerly known as XBID) and the go-Live of 2 further Local Implementation Projects on 19th November with first deliveries on 20th November. This confirmation follows the successful completion of testing and the first Market Trial period. The November 2019 go-live date is still subject to completion of the required go-live preparation and launch activities. More information can be found in the attached <a data-val="0c56cfd8fb624411a5c83441defd8883" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/20191106_-press-release-for-publication_final.pdf" data-linktype="internal">press release</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 14.11.2019.</p> <p>Directly links to the documents for electricity:</p> <ul> <li><a data-val="56a8025d133e4bb98d00d104ae3c9120" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/electricity-documentation/dokumentace-elektrina-1/d1-4-2_en_xml_message_formats_electricity_valid_from_14-11-2019.docx" data-linktype="internal">D1.4.2 XML message formats.docx</a></li> <li><a data-val="7fc6c05fbb8243bb86bfb359d9ccdb78" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/electricity-documentation/dokumentace-elektrina-1/d1-4-2_xsd_templates_electricity_valid_from_14-11-2019.zip" data-linktype="internal">D1.4.2 XSD templates</a></li> <li><a data-val="a12d20f976b0460ea4854b309729c4b5" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/documentation/electricity-documentation/dokumentace-elektrina-1/wsdl_templates_electricity_valid_from_14-11-2019.zip" data-linktype="internal">WSDL templates</a><br /> </li> </ul>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Intraday Gas Market (IM Gas) reached another record in traded volumes since trading commenced in 2010, with a total of 3.785 TWh traded between 1st January 2019 and 30th October 2019. We have thus exceeded the current maximum amount 3.747 TWh of gas traded in 2017 as well as the annual amount traded in 2018 (3.059 TWh), which was exceeded in mid-September 2019. This record confirms the positive trend of trading on our intraday market platform OTE-COM.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The weighted average of prices for the period from 1st January 2019 to 30th October 2019 amounts to 14.13 EUR/MWh, which represents a year-on-year decline in the price of gas on the intraday gas market by 40%.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The market operator further organizes a block electricity market, day-ahead electricity market, intraday electricity market and balancing market with regulating energy. Currently, 123 market participants have access to the short-term electricity markets and 98 market participants to the short-term gas market.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We highly appreciate the trust of the market participants in our short-term markets. We are committed to future development in order to provide higher-quality services and growing liquidity.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><a data-val="c66fa0500a854ee6b257345a12122a2d" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/20191030_volume_of_gas_traded_press_release.pdf" data-linktype="internal">Press release.pdf</a></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Under the rule of the government provision no. 363/2016 Coll. about the ending of daylight saving (summer) time which will come up this year on October 27th 2019, the conditions for the delivering of contracted and metered data to the CS OTE during the change to Central European time are attached.</p> <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li style="text-align: justify;"><a data-val="fcd3bb46881341069a5e78fec29d9b3d" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/the_time_change_in_the_cs-ote_on_october_27th_2019.doc" data-linktype="internal">The time change in the CS OTE on October 27th 2019.doc</a></li> </ul>

<p><a data-val="49b446db0b0044cdb523a0813902a0d5" href="https://www.ote-cr.cz/en/about-ote/file-news/monthly_market_report_09_2019.pdf" data-linktype="internal">Monthly report OTE for September 2019.pdf</a></p>

<p><strong>Slovenský plynárenský priemysel, a.s.,</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 November 2019. Currently the short-term power markets have 122 members and the short-term gas market has 99 members.</p>