Management of the Hungarian Energy Office - Magyar Energia Hivatal

With regard to the export of electricity, the capacity available
for transmissions from Hungary to Croatia rose by 150 MW to
600 MW. There was a signifi cant drop in capacities available
for transports from Hungary to Austria. 100 MW baseload
and 50 MW peak capacities were allocated compared to
the previous year’s 200 MW baseload and 150 MW peak
capacities. However, there was a signifi cant rise in capacities
required for transmissions to Romania and Serbia; from 50
MW to 150 MW. There was no annual capacity auctioned for
transmissions from Ukraine.
Results of the annual auction were compensated to a
certain extent by capacities allocated at monthly auctions.
Accordingly, with regard to the most important Austrian and
Slovakian import, the quantity of monthly capacity grew by
average 70 MW and 200 MW, respectively, in 2009 compared
to 2008. With regard to export, the average monthly quantity
of Croatian export declined by approximately 70 MW.
On the Hungarian-Ukrainien intersection, the scheme of
unilateral monthly auction was maintained also in 2009, in
addition to which daily auctions were introduced in the second
half of the year. There were changes in the auction rules also
on the Romanian-Hungarian intersection, where joint auction
has been introduced with regard to each period. Accordingly,
long term – annual and monthly – auctions are held by the
Romanian system operator, while the daily auction is held by
MAVIR Zrt. since December 2009.
With regard to import directions, MAVIR Zrt. did not call
to auction on the determinant Slovakian intersection in
2008 because of the decreased available capacities and of
the already allocated capacities still reserved for 2008. As a
consequence, the settlement price for cross-border capacity
that emerged for 2008 was 16.79 EUR/MWh on the Romanian
and 12.17 EUR/MWh on the Austrian intersections. With
regard to 2009, settlement prices slightly decreased on the
Romanian intersections to 14.47 EUR/MWh, while the
Austrian settlement price grew moderately to 12.91 EUR/
MWh. (Certainly, these prices assume 100% utilization).
The situation in the South Eastern European region that
evolved in 2008 because of the extreme weather conditions
in 2007 (the extraordinary drough implied a signifi cant rise in
electricity import) ceased. Accordingly, while the settlement
cross-border price of the 2008 auction was 11.86 EUR/MWh
on the Croatian intersection and 8.95 EUR/MWh on the
Serbian intersection, settlement prices show a drastic drop for
2009 to 0.58 EUR/MWh and 1.88 EUR/MWh, respectively.
In December 2009, the annual auction for 2010 brought the
following changes. The changes in the amounts of capacities
relative to the previous years are as follows. The import
capacity from Austria decreased to 120 MW baseload (by 60
MW) and 120 MW peak, from Slovakia to 300 MW (by 100
MW), and increased to 200 MW (by 50 MW) from Romania.
The reason behind the falling import capacities from Austria
and Slovakia is that the transmission system operators of the
Central Eastern European region are planning to introduce a
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coordinated fl ow-based capacity auction in 2010, therefore –
in agreement with the regulatory authorities – they decreased
the amount of the annual capacities by 40% on the debit of
the monthly auctions (this practically means that the values
did not change but capacities will be allocated on monthly
auctions instead of the annual one).
With regard to export directions, there were not any change
in available transmission capacities to Croatia, Serbia and
Romania (allocated capacities are 600 MW, 100 MW and 150
MW, respectively).
Regulation of responsibilities of the transmission system
operator and distribution network companies
In 2009, there were not any legal changes in the responsibilities
of the distribution network licensees.
Unbundling of activities
Requirements for unbundling in the Hungarian electricity
industry
In 2009, there were not any signifi cant changes with regard to
the regulation of unbundling of activities.
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