Transmission capacity can be reserved on Fingrid's cross-border connections from Russia

Fingrid, the Finnish transmission system operator, offers to the electricity market parties electricity transmission capacity through its cross-border connections from Russia. As of the beginning of 2004, a total of 600 megawatts (MW) of transmission capacity will become available on these connections. The transmission capacity is offered to the electricity market parties at equal transmission and price terms. As of the beginning of 2004, total of 600 MW of transmission capacity can be reserved.

The binding transmission reservations for contract periods starting at the beginning of the next year must be submitted to Fingrid by the end of October. The contract periods can range from one to three years, and the smallest unit that can be reserved is 50 MW. It has been decided to restrict the total volume of a transmission reservation made by a party from the earlier volume. The total volume of capacity reserved now can be 300 MW for companies included in the same group of companies.

Fingrid will confirm the transmission reservations after it has received an account of corresponding reservations on the transmission connection in Russia. RAO EES Rossii is responsible for cross-border and grid transmission in Russia.