Technical support to the Energy Community and its Secretariat to assess the candidate Projects of Energy Community Interest and Projects of Mutual Interest in electricity, gas and oil infrastructure, hydro pump storage and smart grids deployment, in line

The Energy Community Secretariat has contracted a consortium of REKK and DNV GL (hereafter Consortium) to assist the Energy Community and its Secretariat in the assessment
of candidate Projects of Energy Community Interest (PECI) and candidate Projects for Mutual Interest (PMI) in electricity, gas and oil infrastructure, and in smart grids
development, in line with the EU Regulation 347/2013 as adopted by the Ministerial Council for the Energy Community (referred to as Adapted Regulation). For the assessment of candidate projects the Consortium has been developing an assessment methodology, building on previous assessments of infrastructure projects by the same Consortium on behalf of the Energy Community in 2013 and 2016, as well as taking into account the methodology applied for the latest selection of EU Projects of Common Interest (PCIs) under the same Regulation as wellas the methodologies for the assessment of network infrastructure projects developed by ENTSO-E and ENTSOG. The geographical scope of the assistance extends to the Contracting Parties of the EnergyCommunity (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo*1, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine). Nevertheless, projects proposed necessitate to include EU Member States (MSs) when bordering a Contracting Party. The objective of the technical support is as follows : To use REKK electricity and gas market models and modify an available electricity network model for the Energy Community Contracting Parties and use these in the assessment of PECI/PMI candidates; To develop a multi-criteria assessment methodology taking into account the ENTSO-E and ENTSOG methodology for cost benefit analysis where applicable; To assess the candidate projects for electricity, gas and oil infrastructure, as well as for smart grids, in order to be able to identify those which bring the greatest net benefits for the Contracting Parties of the Energy Community.