Eurasian Economic Union's common electricity market expected to go online by 2025
Member of the Board (Minister) for Energy and Infrastructure
of the Eurasian Economic Commission Emil Kaikiyev underlined that the creation
of the common electricity market is an important stage in the advancement of
integration processes in Eurasian space. «I would like to note that the
establishment of the market is primarily intended to enable transition to
market-based pricing tools, including exchange trade, and ensure fair
competition,» Emil Kaikiyev said.
During the session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council
in May 2019 the heads of state signed an international treaty on forming the
common electricity market of the Eurasian Economic Union. The document
stipulates the legal framework for creating the market, its operation and
development. The document also mentions the bodies that will take care of
managing and ensuring the operation of the market. Market players and
infrastructure organizations of the market as well as ways to trade in
electricity are also mentioned.
According to Emil Kaikiyev, the creation of the common market
of electricity will allow businesses to freely choose suppliers of energy
resources. In turn, it will have a positive effect on the prime cost of their
products. Apart from that, it will bolster energy security of the Eurasian
Economic Union member states. It will help enable transparent prices for
electricity. It will contribute to steady development of the economies of the
EAEU countries. «But to make it happen, we still have a lot of work to do. We
have to continue working out the legal framework of the market,» Emil Kaikiyev
noted.
For instance, it is necessary to finish working out rules of
operation of the common electricity market. Those are four documents, which
will regulate trade in electricity, electricity transit via EAEU countries, the
distribution of the throughput capacity of interstate power lines, and
information exchange on the market. The previously signed agreement on the
electricity market provides for digital trade in electricity. This is why it is
necessary to put together the relevant regulations.
The Eurasian Economic Commission intends to submit the plan on adopting all the necessary documents for approval of the EAEU heads of state this year. The draft plan was agreed at a session of the Advisory Committee for Electricity Industry.
Members of the committee believe that it is necessary to launch the common electricity market on 1 January 2024 at the latest in a simulation mode in order to test the rules of operation and tune the digital trade system.
Apart
from that, participants of the session discussed possible ways of implementing
the initiative of Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbay Jeenbekov concerning the
establishment of the agency to regulate the Eurasian Economic Union's common
electricity market. The subcommittee on setting up the common electricity market
was instructed to