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Previously, it has been communicated that the SIDC 15 min MTU go-live in the Baltic bidding zones was planned for the 6th of November 2024. The go live date of the Baltic SIDC 15 MTU go live has been moved due to the original go-live date coinciding with the freeze period of SDAC Nordic Flow-based…
The international credit rating agency "S&P Global Ratings" has revised the future perspective of JSC "Augstsprieguma tīkls" credit rating from positive to stable due to the sovereign downgrade.
The "S&P Global Ratings" financial report can be found on the AST website: https://www.ast.lv/en/content/rating
A significant step towards a unified European balancing market is the October 2024 entry of the Baltic transmission system operators AS “Augstsprieguma tīkls” (AST), “Elering,” and “Litgrid” into the European platform for trading manually activated balancing reserves MARI (Manually Activated Reserves Initiative).…
For the provision of secure and stable operation of the Latvian electricity transmission system in the upcoming decade, is important to ensure the availability of controllable high-capacity base load power plants that could participate in the balancing services provision and covering the country's peak load as needed, says…
Latvian transmission system operator JSC "Augstsprieguma tīkls" (AST) has developed and publishes revised Rules for providing the balancing service under the system ancillary service agreement (hereinafter- Rules), Balancing market rules, Technical and data exchange requirements for reserve unit (hereinafter- Technical and…
The study, ordered by Latvian transmission system operator JSC "Augstsprieguma tīkls" and carried out by French consultancy Artelys, shows that innovative grid measures can help increase the hosting capacity of the grid by up to 40% in the best case. The increase of electricity demand in Latvia, especially hydrogen…