OREANDA-NEWS. September 1, 2010. The second meeting of Coordination Council for the launch of system reliability maintenance services market led by Fyodor Opadchiy, director for market development and support of OJSC System operator of UES, took place at Kirishskaya GRES (a branch of OJSC OGK-6). Representatives of OJSC Irkutskenergo took part in the work of the council. Apart from OJSC Irkutskenergo, the council included representatives of OJSC SO UES, wholesale generation companies, OOO Bashkir Generation Company (the Republic of Bashkortostan), OJSC Generation Company (the Republic of Tatarstan), OJSC RusHydro and OJSC Rosenergoatom Concern.

Technical, financial documents and regulations necessary for system services market launch were discussed at the meeting. Moreover, the imitation selection of energy market entities providing system reliability services was performed in a business game form.

Coordination council of system services market launch was created in order to coordinate System operator’s and generation companies’ actions on launch preparation of a new wholesale energy and capacity market segment (market of system reliability maintenance services). According to Maksim Matveev, head of OJSC Irkutskenergo wholesale energy trade department, OJSC Irkutsenergo plans to provide reactive power (line voltage) maintenance services upon launching the system services market in 2011.

Note: As energy and capacity markets are fully deregulated (starting January 1, 2011), system services market becomes one of the control instruments of necessary reliability and performance level of UES (Unified Energy Systems) of Russia. Currently it includes approximately 50 heat stations all over Russia ready to provide controlled primary and partly automatic secondary market regulatory services.