The Regional Group Continental Europe comprises the TSOs of the former UCTE synchronous area. Please click through to access
the list of the member TSOs.
The main purpose of the Regional Group Continental Europe (RG CE) is to pursue the reliable and efficient operation of the Continental Europe Synchronous Area. The RG CE provides a framework for the regional activities of the member TSOs in the Continental Europe Synchronous Area within ENTSO-E.
This includes, inter alia, the management of all operational issues (among others those related to frequency regulation, scheduling and accounting, and coordination services), development and updating of the Operation Handbook, implementation of the Operation Handbook and the procedures to be applied in case of potential infringements (Multilateral Agreement), compliance monitoring with the Operation Handbook, and interoperability assessments for requested extensions of the synchronous system.
The Multilateral Agreement (MLA) is an agreement dated 1 July 2005 including subsequent amendments by which the Parties (member TSOs of the former UCTE and today of the RG CE) have committed themselves to fully comply with the Operation Handbook and by which the parties have committed themselves to settle their possible disputes.
The Operation Handbook (OH) is a comprehensive collection of technical standards for the operation of the interconnected grid of the RG CE. It is divided in 8 Policies, 3 of them originating from 2005 and 4 originating from 2006, all having been revised in the meantime, and the 8th established in 2008. The Regional Group Continental Europe has 5 sub-groups:
System Extension Projects for the Continental European Synchronous Area
At present, the Regional Group Continental Europe (RG CE) has 2 System Extension Project Groups for dealing with system integration and extension issues:
The possible later extension of the Continental European synchronous zone to the systems of Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria is under direct supervision of the Spanish TSO REE.
