1. Projects of Common Interest 2018 - 2019
Meeting of TEN-E cross - Regional Group on electricity
DG ENER, Networks & Régional Initiatives

2. Time
Topic
Speaker
10:00-10:15
Introduction
Klaus-Dieter Borchardt
DG ENER, Director – Internal Energy Market
10:15-10:35
Projects of Common Interest (PCI) legal framework –
brief overview
Catharina Sikow-Magny
DG ENER – Head of Unit B1
10:35-11:20
PCI process (2018 – 2019)
Regional group leaders:
Nicole Versijp - RG NSOG leader
Tomasz Jerzyniak - RG NSI West Electricity leader
Epistimi Oikonomopoulou & Miklos Gaspar - RG NSI East Electricity leaders
Oana Langa - RG BEMIP leader
Thematic area - Smart grids leaders:
Henriette Nesheim & Annachiara Vercellin
Nicole Versijp
DG ENER – B1 Unit Team leader
11:20-12:20
Monitoring role in the PCI process:
ACER 2018 monitoring outcomes
Monitoring inclusion in the current PCI process - principles
Emmanouil Santorinaios
ACER - Policy Officer - Infrastructure Electricity Department

3. 12:20-14:00
Lunch break
14:00-14:45
TYNDP 2018 : process, scenarios and European needs identified
Dimitrios Chaniotis
ENTSO-E System Development Committee chairperson
14:45-15:45
Working together: roles and responsibilities
Irina Mihaela Minciuna
DG ENER – B1 Unit Policy Officer
15:45-16:00
Next steps
Catharina Sikow-Magny
DG ENER – Head of Unit B1

4. Projects of Common Interest
Legal framework

5. Trans-European energy networks are at the heart of the European energy policy
TEN-E Regulation (347/2013) - addressing infrastructure needs in a comprehensive way
An integrated European energy network is THE key enabler to achieve the European energy and climate policy objectives.
COMPETITIVE-NESS
SECURITY OF SUPPLY
SUSTAINABILITY

6. Electricity infrastructure consist of:
Transmission
(a) for electricity transmission, the project increases the grid transfer capacity, or the capacity available for commercial flows, at the border of that Member State with one or several other Member States, or at any other relevant cross-section of the same transmission corridor having the effect of increasing this cross-border grid transfer capacity, by at least 500 Megawatt compared to the situation without commissioning of the project;
Storage
(b) for electricity storage, the project provides at least 225 MW installed capacity and has a storage capacity that allows a net annual electricity generation of 250 Gigawatt-hours/year;
Smart grids
for smart grids, the project is designed for equipment and installations at high-voltage and medium-voltage level designed for a voltage of 10 kV or more. It involves transmission and distribution system operators from at least two Member States, which cover at least users that generate or consume electricity or do both in a consumption area of at least 300 Gigawatt hours/year, of which at least 20 % originate from renewable resources that are variable in nature.

7. Project of Common Interest Benefits
CO2 transport
E-highways
Smart grids
Criteria / CBA
Regional cooperation & High Level Groups
Union List of PCIs
Accelerated permit granting
Regulatory measures
EU financial assistance 7

8. Accelerated permit granting EU financial assistance
Union List of PCIs
Accelerated permit granting
Regulatory measures
EU financial assistance

9. Permit granting – Regime of common interest
Competent Authority to manage permit granting process
3,5 years time limit for the permit granting decision
Increased transparency and enhanced public participation
Priority status for PCIs
Most preferential treatment in Member States
Streaming of Environmental assessment procedures

10. EU financial assistance
Union List of PCIs
Accelerated permit granting
Regulatory measures
EU financial assistance

11. Regulatory framework - measures
Energy system-wide cost-benefit analysis – equal footing for all network elements
Enabling investments with cross-border impact:
Cross-border cost allocation (CBCA)
NRA joint decision on investments and cost allocation
ACER decision if no agreement
Long-term incentives for investment:
Obligation on NRAs to grant appropriate risk-related incentives
ACER guidance on best practices of NRAs and methodology

12. Union List of PCIs Accelerated permit granting Regulatory measures
EU financial assistance
Structural Funds, EIB, EFSI, Marguerite Fund, EBRD
CEF Regulation 1361/2013 with 5.35bn;

13. Promoters obligation
Submit an annual report on progress achieved, delays registered – to ACER (reporting by 31 March)
Draw up an implementation plan including a timetable for the major milestones of a project (Art 5(1)) - Transparency platform
Keeping project websites up-to-date (Art 9(7))
Sharing information within Regional Groups
TEN-E Regulation introduces BENEFITS for PCIs but also certain obligations on PCI promoters Your project (indeed) But part of a (common) network Delays may trigger call for proposals for an alternative project promoter - Art 5(7)(d)

14. Projects of Common Interest (PCI)
Process

15. 2018-2019 PCI process electricity
Regional system needs assessment
Project submission
Jan/Feb 19
May
June
ACER opinion
Sept
Oct
Final
4th PCI list
Electricity
3 Oct
Nov’18
Public project consultation
NRAs project
consultation
March
Methodology for
assessing the electricity PCI project & application
Technical Decision Making Body meeting approval of the draft RG PCI lists
High level Decision Making Body meeting
Cross regional meeting
Regional meeting
Technical and High Level Decision Making Body meeting

16. Step 1: Identification of system needs for 2030
Objective: identify the most relevant needs within the region for which further infrastructure development is necessary
Input: largely based on the ENTSO-E TYNDP data
Regional groups are responsible for defining the needs of the priority corridors
Output: agreed needs of the priority corridors.

17. Step 2: Projects submission
Objective: collect the candidate PCI projects
Input: TYNDP 2018 projects can apply
Project promoters submit their project/s for the PCI selection in line with the Commission guidance.
Submission tool: ENTSO-E tool developed in line with the Commission requirements.
Note: The Commission is in charge of the submission process, not ENTSO-E
Output: list of candidate PCI projects
Submission window:
15 October November

18. Step 3.1: Public consultation on candidate projects
Objective: collect public views on the candidate PCI projects
Input: TYNDP 2018 project sheets + ACER monitoring outcomes + information submitted in the PCI submission window
Stakeholders & citizens are invited to submit their views on the projects.
Consultation tool: The EUSurvey tool will be used for this purpose.
Output: public views per projects summed up in the report on public consultation. These views will be considered by the Regional Groups.

19. Step 3.2: National Regulatory Authorities projects consultation
Objective: collect the NRAs views on the candidate PCI projects
Input: TYNDP 2018 project sheets + ACER monitoring outcomes + information submitted in the PCI submission window
NRAs submit their views on all the projects from their national territory.
Consultation tool: ACER survey tool will be used for this purpose.
Output: NRAs view per projects, views that will be used by the Regional Groups.

20. Step 4: Define methodology and assess the candidate PCI projects
Objective: define the assessment methodology and based on it assess all the PCI candidate projects
Input: TYNDP 2018 project data and project monitoring information
RG members are responsible to agree on the assessment methodology and prepare the Decision Making Body decision.
Output: Assessment methodology and outcome of the methodology implementation per priority corridor.

21. Step 5. PCI list adoption and ACER opinion
Objective: Technical and High Level Decision Making Body PCI lists per corridor adoption
Input: RGs assessment results
and ACER opinion
Technical and High Level Decision Making Body are responsible to adopt the list.
Output: 4th PCI list to be formally adopted by the Commission [Delegated Act]

22. Projects of Common Interest (PCI)
Electricity Regional Groups & Smart grids thematic group

23. Electricity regional group leaders:
Nicole Versijp - RG NSOG
Tomasz Jerzyniak - RG NSI West
Epistimi Oikonomopoulou & Miklos Gaspar - RG NSI East
Oana Langa - RG BEMIP
Thematic area - Smart grids leaders:
Henriette Nesheim & Annachiara Vercellin

24. Northern Seas offshore grid
Integrate offshore electricity grid development and the related interconnectors in the North Sea, the Irish Sea, the English Channel, the Baltic Sea and neighbouring waters to transport electricity from renewable offshore energy sources to centers of consumption and storage and to increase cross-border electricity exchange.
Member States concerned: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom;

25. North-South electricity interconnections in Western Europe
Interconnections between Member States of the region and with the Mediterranean area including the Iberian peninsula, notably to integrate electricity from renewable energy sources and reinforce internal grid infrastructures to foster market integration in the region.
Member States concerned: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Malta, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom;

26. North-South electricity interconnections in Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe
Interconnections and internal lines in North-South and East-West directions to complete the internal market and integrate generation from renewable energy sources.
Member States concerned: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia;

27. Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan in electricity
Interconnections between Member States in the Baltic region and reinforcing internal grid infrastructures accordingly, to end isolation of the Baltic States and to foster market integration inter alia by working towards the integration of renewable energy in the region.
Member States concerned: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden

28. PRIORITY THEMATIC AREA: Smart grids deployment
adoption of smart grid technologies across the Union to efficiently integrate the behaviour and actions of all users connected to the electricity network, in particular the generation of large amounts of electricity from renewable or distributed energy sources and demand response by consumers.
Member States concerned: All

29. ACER monitoring
2018 outcomes

30. Inclusion of monitoring in the PCI process

31. The Projects of Common Interest are chosen due to their high benefit for the Energy Union
In order to bring the benefits to citizens and businesses the PCIs need to be implemented on time
Monitoring by the Regional and High Level Groups is necessary to check and promoter the timely implementation of PCI projects

32. Copenhagen Forum conclusion
“The Forum asks the Regional Groups members to increase their involvement in the project implementation in line with the legal requirements. In addition, the Forum asks the Regional Groups to include the monitoring in the process of defining the future PCI lists.”

33. Regional Group members:
1. acknowledge the importance of monitoring for projects’ implementation
2. agree to include the PCI monitoring outcomes in the PCI assessment methodology
3. follow and support the PCIs implementation under the Regional and High Level Groups fora

34. Working together: roles and responsibilities

35. Overview of roles & responsibilities

36. Cooperation Platform Members: ENTSOs, ACER and European Commission
Regular meetings: Feb2018 until March/April 2019
Tasks:
Makes sure that TYNDP material fulfills the PCI process needs
Makes checks on data necessary for the PCI process
Supports in the drafting of the PCI assessment methodology
Continuous support to the Regional Groups in the PCI process

37. Regional Groups
Members: Member States, National Regulatory Authorities, ENTSOs, ACER, promoters and European Commission
Regular meetings: Q3/2018- Q2/2019
Tasks:
Identifies and agrees on the Regional infrastructure needs/ gaps
Agree on the PCI assessment methodology
Discusses and makes recommendations to facilitate implementation of PCIs

38. Regional Groups –NRAs
Annex III.2.(7) For proposed projects falling under the categories set out in Annex II.1 and 2, national regulatory authorities, and if necessary the Agency, shall, where possible in the context of regional cooperation (Article 6 of Directive 2009/72/EC, Article 7 of Directive 2009/73/EC), check the consistent application of the criteria/ cost-benefit analysis methodology and evaluate their cross-border relevance. They shall present their assessment to the Group.
Within the context of the Regional groups discusses and makes recommendations to facilitate implementation of PCIs

39. Regional Groups – Stakeholders
Stakeholders are invited to participate in meetings throughout the process [where appropriate] and engage in discussions, especially regarding the needs identification in the regions.
Stakeholders and the general public are also consulted on the list of the candidate projects at the beginning of the process through an open consultation.

40. Decision Making Body Members: Member States and European Commission
Meeting: June-Sept 2019
Tasks:
Following Regional Groups recommendation discusses and adopts the regional PCI lists

41. ENTSO-E TYNDP 2018

42. NEXT STEPS

43. PCI submission Period: 15 October- 15 November
Submission through online tool
Average time to submit a project: 15 min
All the data available in the TYNDP will be automatically considered
The submission will be done at the project level

44. Regional system needs assessment
Next meetings will be hold in the regional format:
End November
2nd week December
The meetings are also open to the public
For the meetings preparation the RGs member will receive:
mid-October the 2030 country needs sheets
end October – a draft approach on identifying the relevant needs

45. Public PCI candidate consultation
Period: mid-November – mid January
Open to all the interested public
Similar with the past PCI consultation

46. NRAs consultation Period: mid-November – mid January
Based on an online questionnaire
NRAs will be asked to check the consistent application of the criteria/ cost-benefit analysis methodology and evaluate their cross-border relevance

47. European Commission contacts – PCI process:
For general inquiries:
Regional group leaders:
RG NSOG leader: Nicole Versijp
Phone:
RG NSI West Electricity leader - Tomasz Jerzyniak
Phone:
RG NS East Electricity leaders: Epistimi Oikonomopoulou & Miklos Gaspar
Phone: or
RG BEMIP leader: Oana Langa
Phone:
Thematic area - Smart grids leaders: Henriette Nesheim & Annachiara Vercellin ;
Phone: or