Major Power Disruption in Southeast Europe, Greece Not Affected
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A major disruption in the electric power transmission system of Southeastern Europe occurred on Friday afternoon, Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (ADMIE) announced late on Friday night.
This outage had, as a result, the separation of the system of Southeastern Europe from the rest of the Continental Europe Synchronous Area.
Luckily enough, the disruption did not affect Greece, ADMIE said, while the cause of the incident is still not known.
It all happened at 15:05 EET (14:05 CET) on Friday afternoon.
According to ADMIE’s announcement, the frequency value in Central Europe contained around 49.7 Hz while in Southeastern Europe approximately at 50.3 Hz.
Crete connects to mainland Greece with worlds longest underwater high-voltage cable
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A 24-hour electrification test of the first submarine cable that will connect the island of Crete with mainland power grids was successfully conducted, Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator SA (IPTO) announced on Wednesday.
The test run, which connected with power grids in Attica and the Peloponnese, surpassed expectations and exceeded technical standards achieved in similar projects worldwide, said IPTO.
The eastern part of the interconnection comprises of two submarine cables, a new electrode substation in the Peloponnese and an upgraded electrode substation in the Cretan city of Chania.
Greek independent operator announces extension of Single Day-Ahead Coupling between Greece, Italy
Tuesday, 15 Dec 2020 21:20
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Greece s Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO or ADMIE) on Tuesday announced that the country s day-ahead market has finally been integrated - via the Greek-Italian border - the Pan-European day-ahead power market.
A press release by the operator said market coupling operations of the Greek bidding zone in SDAC (Multi Regional Coupling) were launched on Dec. 15, with Dec. 16, 2020 being the first delivery day.
The two countries have been connected since 2002, however the coupling of markets means that purchase orders for electricity by participants will be included in joint book orders