Electricity produced from about 2,000 megawatts of Kozloduy NPP has been leaving Bulgaria since the beginning of September. Even on a weekend like Saturday, September 11, at 9.25 pm, more than 1/3 of the electricity produced in our country went to Romania, Serbia and Greece and Northern Macedonia. At that time, the load of the system was 4123 megawatts – 33.7% of the electricity came from Kozloduy NPP, or 1864 megawatts, 46.75% was from the leaks, which were 2636.5 megawatts.
At Kozloduy NPP on Saturday
the power of
the fifth block was
reduced by 45%
due to the shutdown of one of the two turbocharged pumps supplying water to the steam generators in the secondary circuit (conventional, non-nuclear part of the unit). The reason for switching off the turbocharger pump is a mechanical fault in the control valve, which has been rectified. In TPP “Maritsa East 2” worked 6 of a total of 8 units, two of which are under repair.
On this weekend, 1747 megawatts went for export. The main flow was to Romania, over 800 megawatts, and between 19:00 and 21:00 – over 1,000 megawatts.
This summer, starting in July, there is a shortage of electricity in the region. This also led to shock electricity prices in August, which hit the ceiling with over BGN 330 per megawatt-hour on the stock exchange.
The price record was on August 4. At that time, 14,348 megawatt-hours of electricity were exported to Greece, where the price was 185.59 euros, and in Bulgaria it was 169.10 euros. In our country, BGN 2,426,246 were paid for these quantities, and at the price on the Greek stock exchange the amount was BGN 2,662,845, or the difference was BGN 236,599.
After the business protests, blocks were launched in the state-owned Maritza-East 2, and a block of ContourGlobal Maritza-East 3 was launched. Now
possible
power we have
are loaded,
to cover
this shortage
in the region and yes
tame prices
in our country, albeit at higher than usual levels. On this occasion, a high-ranking energy source commented that we are currently supporting foreign economies.
On the Day Forward platform of the energy exchange for Sunday (September 12), when prices are usually low and consumption is low, the average price was 112 euros, or 219.42 levs per megawatt hour.
For that day, exports to Greece were 11,537 megawatt hours, and the price on the Greek stock exchange – 113.44 euros. A little over 64,073 megawatt-hours were traded in Bulgaria, which means that 1/6 of the exported electricity went to our southern neighbor.
24 Chasa requested data from the Electricity System Operator on the export of electricity for July and August.
Exports for July
and August is total
1 557 834
megawatt hours
Compared to the previous year, when 972,441 megawatt hours went out in those months, the increase is 60%. (How it has changed in three years – see table.) From the beginning of the year to September 5, exports were 4,740,819 megawatt hours, an increase of 77.22% over last year.
In July, the main flow – 372,365 megawatt hours, is to Greece, the same is in August, when most electricity goes to our southern neighbor – 364,720 MWh. However, in August the traffic to Romania almost doubled – 302,242 MWh.
It is clear from a report by the IBEX that the average price for July was BGN 185.59 with 737,487 megawatt hours exported. The electricity purchased on our market was BGN 136.87 million at Bulgarian wholesale prices.
The report for August has not been published yet and the average price is not clear, but if we assume that it is around BGN 200, and will probably be higher, with 820,347 megawatt hours exported, it turns out that they went abroad at the Bulgarian prices of wholesale BGN 164 million
This makes for the two months about BGN 300 million, which went to the producers of the electricity that has left the country. It is difficult to find out how much it was sold abroad and how much the traders earned, as this is determined by bilateral supply contracts that are not public.
Who are the traders who play for capacity can be seen then the auction data.
In an annual tender for 200 megawatts of capacity in the cross-border exchange network in the direction from Bulgaria to Greece for 2021.
have played
38 companies,
they won 10
Among them are the Swiss Ezpada, again the German Statecraft Markets, CEZ Prague, the Slovenian GEN-I, the state-owned Greek energy company RRS, which is the largest wholesale and retail supplier of electricity in our southern neighbor, the Greek Volton Hellenic Energy, Heron Thermoelectric, Sousaki Power, KEN SA.
At an annual capacity tender to Turkey for a capacity of 263 megawatts, the Slovenian GEN-I and EFT, the Danish MFT Energy and the Czech Alkip Energy are shopping again.
The daily capacity tenders for Northern Macedonia are dominated by Slovenia’s EFT, GEN-I, Interenergo, Denmark’s Danske Comodities and the Czech Alpine Energies.
There were 32 bidders in the tender for the road of electricity from us to Serbia for September, which had a capacity of 251 megawatts,
quantities
are distributed
between
15 companies
Among them are the Swiss Energy Services Company, the Czech CEZ, Nova Energy Trading and Alpic Energy, the young Greek company Strategic Energy Trading, the Bulgarian Energy Supply by Sonia Kadieva, the German Statcraft, MET Energy Bulgaria, EVN Trading South East Europe ”, the Danish Danske Commodities, the Swiss Energy Financing Team, Interenergo.
In a monthly tender for a capacity of 320 megawatts for October in Romania, 26 companies participated, 18 took it.
Among the winners are Alpic Energy – Prague, the Danish Nova Energy Trading, the Spanish G Nera Energia, the Danish Energi Danmark, the Italian Electrade, Gene-i Trade and Electricity Sales from Ljubljana, Energo-Pro Trading “, CEZ – Prague, registered in London” EDF Trading Limited “.
The German Statcraft Markets, Holding Slovenske Elektrarne from Ljubljana, the American Alphataraxia, the Swiss Expo Energy, the Hungarian MVP Partner Energiakereskedelmi, the Geneva-registered Vitol SA, which is one of the largest energy companies, also received capacity. , as well as “MET Energy Trading Bulgaria”, which is also of the “MET Group” registered in Switzerland.
A review of capacity tenders shows that
energy
from Bulgaria
buy it
and export
mostly
large
companies
from Europe
Even CEZ does not play with its Bulgarian companies, but directly from Prague. Some – such as MET and EVN, however, still use their subsidiaries in Bulgaria in concluding transactions. The presence of Slovenian companies, which have been on our electricity market for a long time, is also impressive.
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