Featured Speaker: Peter Markussen, Senior Director, Energinet
About the Webinar: Europe has significant interregional transmission, with about tens of GW of interregional transfer capability built during 2008-2022. MW Targets are established between TSOs and on average, 70% of the capability of these interconnections is required to be available in the day-ahead and intra-day markets. In this webinar, Peter Markussen of Energinet will discuss how Europe set these targets, why there is support for interregional transmission, what worked and what didn’t and how costs are allocated.
About the Speaker: Peter Markussen is Senior director at Energinet, the state owned Danish Transmission and System Operator. Peter focus on international cooperation and sharing of Danish experience with integration of renewable energy to accelerate the global green transition. Peter Markussen has more than 20 years of experience with the energy sector in Northern Europe and has deep insights on electricity markets, cross border transmission cooperation and energy system development. Before his employment at Energinet, he has hold different management positions at a Danish electricity generator. His educational background is a masters degree in political science.
Moderators: Debbie Lew, Associate Director, ESIG; Aaron Bloom, Executive Director – Transmission, NextEra Energy
Registration Cost: FREE
Q&A Session: We will be using the slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow-along during the event at this link.