SSC - first European security centre
A joint team of experts from the German transmission system operator Amprion and its Dutch counterpart TenneT TSO B.V. supports the security management of the extra-high-voltage grids of Germany and the Netherlands.
From the centre in Rommerskirchen, just outside Cologne, German and Dutch engineers provide the system operations with supra-regional security calculations. They locate bottlenecks in the grid and support the system operation activities of TenneT and Amprion with analyses. The Shared Service Centre was established in response to the enormous growth in the wind energy sector and the increasingly stringent requirements imposed on the transmission grids by the growing cross-border electricity trade. This first European security centre will make a valuable contribution to the collaboration between European TSOs.