Medium-Term Strategy Objectives
Med-TSO is the Association of the Mediterranean Transmission System Operators (TSOs) for electricity, operating the High Voltage Transmission Networks of 19 Mediterranean Countries, including Montenegro.
It was established on 19 April 2012 in Rome as a technical platform that, using multilateral cooperation as a strategy of regional development, could facilitate the integration of the Mediterranean Power Systems and foster security and socio-economic development in the region.
Med-TSO gathers 21 members from 19 Mediterranean countries, covering an area of about 8.5 million km². It serves about 500 million consumers, with a total load demand of about 1,600 TWh. Med-TSO’s members operate around 400,000 km of transmission lines, dispatching the energy produced by about 550,000 MW of installed capacity.
Med-TSO is engaged in facing the challenging evolution of the regional power sector by facilitating the creation of a Mediterranean energy market, through the definition of common methodologies, rules, sharing costs, risks and best practices for optimizing the operation of existing infrastructures and facilitating the development of new ones.
Our mission is to operate a multilateral cooperation platform among the TSOs, aimed at facilitating the harmonized development of their transmission grids, creating a secure, flexible and efficient integrated power system in the Mediterranean, and fostering the creation of an integrated regional electricity market.
Med-TSO contributes to this objective by promoting:
• cooperation and a coordinated approach of the Med-TSO countries,
• market integration,
• general criteria and harmonized technical rules,
• training, knowledge transfer, and technical assistance,
• better communication and consultation with stakeholders and institutions,
• roles of transmission system operators at the regional level,
• analyzing and taking common positions on issues that can impact the development and operation of transmission systems
Med-TSO is also working to become the professional and strategic body for every technical, market and policy issues related to the Mediterranean electricity systems; a competent, prepositive and proactive guide to which European and Mediterranean institutions and stakeholders could refer. The European Union supports Med-TSO, especially about all the initiatives that aim at maintaining a constructive cooperation and permanent engagement of both Mediterranean shores, in order to contribute to the development of a special relationship between the EU Member States and their neighboring Mediterranean countries. The effective integration of the transmission networks across the EU and the Mediterranean opens up greater perspectives in terms of sustainable growth, security of supply and experience exchange. EU’s support was defined in 2015 with the signature of a grant contract for the so called “Mediterranean Project”: the way the association is carrying out its goals.
The Project runs along five main priorities: Rules, common set of basic rules; Infrastructure, guidelines for Network Planning and implementing a Euro-Mediterranean Electricity Reference Grid; International Electricity Exchanges, development of a Mediterranean Electricity System; Knowledge Sharing, establishing a forum among the relevant professionals working; Med-TSO Database, creation of a Mediterranean database.