Report on the activities of ElCom 2015 Published by Swiss Federal Electricity Commission ElCom Effingerstrasse 39, CH-3003 Bern Phone +41 58 462 58 33 · Fax +41 58 462 02 22 [email protected] · www.elcom.admin.ch Illustrations Fotolia (page 1, 10, 72) ElCom / www.bildkultur.ch (page 6, 7, 51) Swissgrid (page 32) Wikipedia (page 43) Edition D: 400, F: 200, I: 50, E: 100 Available in German, French, Italian and English · 6/2015 Contents 1 Foreword by the President ................................................................................................................. 4 2 Supervision of the wholesale electricity market .................................................................................. 6 2.1 Focus on supervision of the wholesale electricity trading .................................................................... 6 2.2 Market transparency in wholesale electricity trading .......................................................................... 8 2.3 Market Monitoring section; facts and figures for 2015 ....................................................................... 9 3 Supply security ................................................................................................................................10 3.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................10 3.2 Quality of supply .............................................................................................................................11 3.2.1 Network availability .........................................................................................................................11 3.2.2 Import capacity ...............................................................................................................................12 3.3 Capacity mechanisms .......................................................................................................................13 3.3.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................13 3.3.2 Developments within the EU ............................................................................................................14 3.3.3 Assessment of the situation in Switzerland .......................................................................................15 3.4 System services ................................................................................................................................15 3.5 Supply situation in winter 2015/16 ....................................................................................................17 4 Networks ........................................................................................................................................20 4.1 Facts and figures relating to Switzerland’s electricity networks ..........................................................20 4.2 Grid expansion and planning ............................................................................................................24 4.2.1 Long-term planning of the transmission network ..............................................................................24 4.2.2 Long-term planning of the distribution networks ..............................................................................25 4.2.3 Participation in the sectoral plan and planning approval procedures ...................................................26 4.3 Investments in the grid infrastructure ...............................................................................................26 4.3.1 Investments in the transmission network ..........................................................................................26 4.3.2 Investments in the distribution network ............................................................................................27 4.4 Increases in network capacity ...........................................................................................................27 4.5 National grid operator (valuation/sales of shares) ..............................................................................29 4.6 Rulings and decisions relating to networks ....................................................................................... 30 5 The Swiss electricity market .............................................................................................................32 5.1 Market access and change of supplier ...............................................................................................32 5.2 Transmission network tariffs ........................................................................................................... 34 5.3 Distribution network tariffs ..............................................................................................................35 5.4 Examination of tariffs ......................................................................................................................37 5.5 Sunshine Regulation ....................................................................................................................... 40 5.6 Issues relating to measurement services ............................................................................................41 5.7 Feed-in remuneration at cost ...........................................................................................................42 6 International activities ......................................................................................................................43 6.1 Congestion management .................................................................................................................43 6.2 Border power plants ....................................................................................................................... 44 6.3 Merchant Lines ................................................................................................................................45 6.4 Auction proceeds ............................................................................................................................45 6.5 International bodies .........................................................................................................................47 6.6 Network codes ............................................................................................................................... 48 7 Outlook.......................................................................................................................................... 50 8 About ElCom ...................................................................................................................................51 8.1 Organisation and personnel .............................................................................................................52 8.1.1 The Electricity Commission ...............................................................................................................53 8.1.2 Technical Secretariat ........................................................................................................................55 8.2 Finance .......................................................................................................................................... 56 8.3 Events ............................................................................................................................................ 56 8.3.1 2015 ElCom Forum ......................................................................................................................... 56 8.3.2 Information events for network operators ........................................................................................ 56 9 Appendix ........................................................................................................................................57 9.1 Facts and figures .............................................................................................................................57 9.2 Appeal statistics ..............................................................................................................................57 9.3 Meetings .........................................................................................................................................57 9.4 Publications (in national languages only) .......................................................................................... 58 9.4.1 Directives ....................................................................................................................................... 58 9.4.2 Notifications ................................................................................................................................... 58 9.4.3 Rulings .......................................................................................................................................... 58 9.4.4 Other court rulings ......................................................................................................................... 64 9.5 Abbreviations and glossary ............................................................................................................. 66 1 Foreword by the President In the past few years, bate on the planned reform of legislation in the despite time-consum- energy sector. Last year, ElCom proposed a vari-