The Society for the Administration of Energy Participations (SAPE) has launched (in RO) a market consultation process to estimate the estimated price of building a storage capacity of up to 1,000 MW in a pumped storage hydropower plant (CHEAP) in Tarnița -Lăpuștești who can intervene in the balancing of the national energy system for durations between 4-6 hours.
The Ministry is looking for benchmarks for
- The estimated value of the project
- Duration of realization
- The necessary documents to be made available to the provider
- Identification of providers who benefit from the necessary experience for the preparation of documentation, for the provision of drafting services
- The feasibility study in order to establish the need and opportunity to achieve the investment objective
- Identifying possible technical-economic scenarios/options and selecting a limited number of feasible scenarios/options to achieve the investment objective
- The feasibility study for the analysis, substantiation and proposal of at least two different technical-economic scenarios/options
At the same time, SAPE reminds that the “opportunity and necessity” of realizing the project are part of Romania’s Energy Strategy 2018-2030, based on 10 advantages:
- increasing the degree of safety of SEN in the context of operation in UCTE;
- the transfer of electrical energy from the load gap to the peak;
- electricity market arbitrage;
- short-term breakdown reserve;
- fast tertiary adjustment reserve and slow tertiary adjustment reserve;
- frequency-power adjustment;
- provision of reactive reserve and voltage regulation in SEN;
- exchange through interconnection within UCTE;
- restarting SEN- black start capability, the ability to restore network interconnections in the event of a power failure;
- SEN implementation and management of intermittent renewable sources of electricity ensuring optimal conditions for the installation of a power greater than 4000 MW in wind power plants.
Each participant in this market consultation process is expected to present by August 8, 2023, 12:00, in approximately 7 working days, a non-binding estimated offer as detailed as possible and in accordance with the requirements attached to this announcement. Additional information at [email protected] .