CROSSBOW

Project

The Romanian Energy Center Association (CRE) and its member TRANSELECTRICA, which it has promoted in the European Consortium, cooperate in the implementation of the European Project "CROSSBOW" - "CROSS BOrder management of variable renewable energies and storage units enabling a transnational Wholesale market", funded by the European Commission, within the Horizon 2020 Program.

Coordinator

ETRA Investigation Y Desarrollo SA Group - Spain.

Partners

8 Transmission and System Operators (TSOs) from Central and South East Europe: ADMIE (GR), ESO (BG), EMS (RS), NOS BiH (BA), HOPS (HR), ELES (SI), CGES (ME), MEPSO (MK) as well as others
partners, in a consortium of 24 energy and telecommunications professional organizations from 13 European countries.

Duration

The CROSSBOW project started on November 1, 2017 and lasted four years.

Budget

17,287,742.88 EURO - Maximum Grant Amount

Objective

CROSSBOW proposes innovative solutions by sharing partners' resources to encourage cross-border management of variable renewable energy and storage, enabling increased penetration of clean energy while reducing grid operational costs and improving the economic benefits of clean energy and storage.

Benefits

Encouraging regional cooperation between system operators in South East Europe. The project offers 9 different tools to help the Regional Coordination Center in the region to facilitate a greater penetration of Renewable Energy Sources - RES, while reducing operational costs for individual operators at both the transmission and distribution levels of electricity.

Role of CRE

It contributes to the assessment of the technical and socio-economic impact of CROSSBOW integrated solutions, to the definition of business models and solutions to overcome local, regional and global obstacles, to the exploitation of results, to the business innovation strategy and to the development of new standards.

2022

Aprill 20, 2022

Representatives of the Romanian Energy Center Association (CRE) attended the Final Conference of the “CROSSBOW” Project - “CROSS BOrder management of variable renewable energies and storage units enabling a transnational Wholesale market”, on March 30, 2022. The event was co-organized by the UKIM Partner and the CROSSBOW Project Coordinator - ETRA, with the support of Energy Communities. The final conference highlighted the CROSSBOW project results, including the findings of the use cases and identified barriers. CROSSBOW celebrated the final conference in a hybrid format, with in-person sessions hosted in Vienna.

January 28, 2022

Representatives of the Romanian Energy Center Association (CRE) attended and contributed to the Plenary Consortium Meeting of the “CROSSBOW” project - “CROSS BOrder management of variable renewable energies and storage units enabling a transnational Wholesale market”, on December 13 and 14, 2021. The Virtual Meeting was organized by the CROSSBOW Project Coordinator - ETRA Investigation Y Desarrollo SA Group from Spain.

2021

November 3, 2021

Representatives of the Romanian Energy Centre Association (CRE) organized and participated in the “THE ROLE OF STANDARDIZATION FOR DIGITALIZING THE ELECTRICITY NETWORK” WORKSHOP within the European Project ‘CROSSBOW’ - “CROSS BOrder management of variable renewable energies and storage units enabling a transnational Wholesale market”, which took place on Friday, 22 October 2021. The CROSSBOW project is funded by the European Commission (EC) through the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation (R&I) Program. This WORKSHOP was physically held at the Permanent Representation of Romania to the European Union in Brussels. Participants could also interact with the speakers online.

October 22, 2021

Representatives of the Romanian Energy Center Association (CRE) attended and contributed to the Plenary Consortium Meeting of the “CROSSBOW” project - “CROSS BOrder management of variable renewable energies and storage units enabling a transnational Wholesale market”, on December 13 and 14, 2021. The Virtual Meeting was organized by the CROSSBOW Project Coordinator - ETRA Investigation Y Desarrollo SA Group from Spain.

June 30, 2020

Representatives of the Romanian Energy Center Association (CRE) participated and actively contributed to the Online Conference entitled “MANAGING CROSS-BORDER RENEWABLE ENERGY RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION AND STORAGE IN TRANSNATIONAL WHOLESALE MARKETS TO MEET CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TARGETS”, Thursday, June 17, 2021.

March 11, 2020

Representatives of the Romanian Energy Center Association (CRE) attended on March 9, 2021 the general meeting of the CROSSBOW project consortium (“CROSS BOrder management of ariable renewable energies and storage units enabling a transnational Wholesale market”)

March 1, 2020

Representatives of the Romanian Energy Centre (CRE) in collaboration with the University of Ljubljana organized on 25 February the workshop “Calculation of Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)” within the CROSSBOW project