CMA participated in the European Optimate project, which aimed to build a platform for technical and regulatory analysis of the different ways to integrate all electricity markets in Europe into a single market.
The OPTIMATE Project (An Open Platform to Test Integration in new MArkeT DEsigns of massive intermittent energ y sources dispersed in several regional power) is now complete. It aimed to build a platform for technical and regulatory analysis of different ways to integrate all electricity markets in Europe into a single market.
The €4.5 million project, partly funded by the European Union’s Framework Programme 7, was technically coordinated by RTE and brought together the work of several European electricity operators and university and industrial research laboratories. It allowed CMA to use its expertise in optimisation, with the simulation of a coupled European electricity market using different methods: merit order, integer linear programming and non-linear optimisation.
The role of the CMA was to build three modules belonging to the “day ahead” market: the electricity market, which is sequenced in several phases, is resolved in one day before its completion so that all its players, especially the network managers (the main partners in the project, in particular RTE, the technical leader), ensure its security and quality. The three modules in charge of the Centre – Reserve Requirement, Cross-Border Limit, MarketCoupling – were delivered at the end of 2011.
The project has entered its operational phase at RTE. The coupled market simulator is used to support various CMA research activities on market coupling issues.
The industrialization of the platform is underway within RTE
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