Transmission Network Development Plan of Montenegro - Update
Client: CGES a.d. (Montenegro)
Finishing date: July 2020 (April 2021)
Type: Study (Transmission, Generation, Market, Policies, Renewable)
Team: Slobodan Markovic – Project manager, Dj. Dobrijevic, B. Sijakovic, O. Vukovic, B. Lekovic
The objectives and the related key deliverables of the scope of work were to update a 10-year development plan for the Transmission System Operator of Montenegro (CGES) according to ENTSO-E recommendations, reflecting also specifics of Montenegrin transmission grid. In particular, the Plan considers the following strategic documents of Montenegro:
- Rules for the development and monitoring of the ten-year development plans of the transmission system (NRA, July 2016)
- CGES Grid code (January 2018)
- Spatial plans of Montenegro
The main goals of the Plan are:
- Methodological approach
- Review of the previous development plans and their realization
- Assessment of the connection of new distribution system to transmission network
- Estimation of the terminus of connection of conventional and a significant number of renewables.
- Anticipation of potential uncertainties that may affect the operation of the transmission system in accordance with the complex legal and regulatory framework.
- Assessment of the impact of possible variations in the implementation of the new projects
- To assess the reconstruction and revitalization of the existing transmission equipment
- Re-establishment and correction of a list of projects with their basic characteristics to be implemented over a period of 10 years and beyond, and to propose the implementation plan and the corresponding time-scheduling.
- To propose the investment plan for the next three years
- The Plan also used the relevant available transmission network development plans of the neighbouring systems as input for its realization.
Type of services provided:
- Methodological approach
- Review of the previous development plans and their realization
- Regional market-based assessments
- Detailed 3 years development plan
- 10 years development plan 2020-2029 and after 2029
- Assessment of the connection points of the new production utilities
- Short-circuits currents for single and three-phase faults according to the IEC 60909 standard
- Techno-economic assessments
- 3 years Investment plan based on ENTSO-E Cost Benefit Analysis (ENTSO-E CBA)