Market Coupling between Denmark and Germany
The long-term perspective of the regional initiative in Northern Europe is to optimize the use of interconnection capacities between the Scandinavian and the central European electricity markets.
In this context, it is the aim of the five project partners E.ON Netz, Energinet.dk, VE Transmission, Nord Pool Spot and EEX to implement a market coupling system for more simplified cross-border electricity trading between Denmark and Germany. After the establishment of the new market coupling system, all capacity on the Kontek interconnection and the daily capacity on the interconnection between Western Denmark and Germany will be utilised through an implicit auction. The annual and monthly explicit auctions on the interconnection between Western Denmark and Germany will continue. It is expected that this leads to a significant increase in economic welfare.
The project partner will establish a new company, called European Market Coupling Company GmbH (EMCC), located in Hamburg. EMCC is intended to provide specific services for the operation of market coupling to TSOs and power exchanges.
Several presentations in the download area inform in more detail about this stepwise development.
