NEWS RELEASE 24 September 2018, for immediate release

Romanian TSO Transelectrica joins TSCNET Services as 15th shareholder

Munich, Germany – Munich-based TSCNET Services (www.tscnet.eu), one of the leading Regional Security Coordinators (RSC) for the Eu- ropean electricity transmission grid, is pleased to announce a cus- tomer and close partner as a new shareholder: Transelectrica S.A. TSCNET Services GmbH (Compania Nationala de Transport al Energiei Electrice), the Roma- Dingolfinger Strasse 3 nian state majority-owned transmission system operator (TSO) for 81673 Munich, Germany

E-mail: [email protected] electricity, is now the fifteenth shareholder of TSCNET. With the entry Web: tscnet.eu of , which became member of the European Union in 2007,

TSCNET will provide grid security services to the TSOs of twelve Eu- Press contact: Christoph Meinersmann ropean countries. “Since the Romanian grid already is an integrated [email protected] part of the European transmission network, Transelectrica plays an important role in the further development of security of supply in south-eastern Europe,” says Maik Neubauer, Managing Director of TSCNET Services.

The Romanian electricity transmission grid consists of 8,759km of overhead lines. “Being a shareholder, allows Transelectrica active in- volvement in the further development of TSCNET Services as one of the largest European RSCs. This step is also part of a natural and necessary evolution for Romanian Power sector on the European en- ergy map in the context of the implementation of the new model of the internal electricity market, of the European network codes and in the perspective of the Clean Energy Package,” says Adrian Constantin Rusu, the Chief Executive Officer of Transelectrica.

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TSCNET Services GmbH TSCNET Services is one of Europe’s leading Regional Security Coor- dinators (RSCs). The Munich-based company with about 50 employ- ees renders integrated services for power transmission system

operators (TSOs) and their control centres to maintain the operational security of our electricity system – 24 hours a day, seven days a week. TSCNET’s shareholders are the fifteen TSOs of twelve European coun- tries: 50Hertz (Germany), (Germany), APG (Austria), ČEPS (Czechia), ELES (Slovenia), (Denmark), HOPS (Croatia), MA- VIR (Hungary), PSE (Poland), SEPS (Slovakia), (Switzer- land), TenneT (Germany), TenneT (Netherlands), TransnetBW (Ger- many), and Transelectrica (Romania). The Managing Directors of TSCNET Services are Maik Neubauer and Uwe Zimmermann.

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