SEE CAO

SEE CAO stands for Coordinated Auction Office in South East Europe. It sells the right to move electricity across borders in this region.

ALPEX trades the energy. The interconnector still has a limit. SEE CAO is where that space on the line is auctioned for the borders the regional transmission operators put through the office. Albania's operator, OST, is one of them.

The office is in Podgorica, Montenegro. It was registered in 2014 so one office could run the auctions for the region.

It sells cross-border capacity rights in both directions, for the year, the month and the day. That sale is called explicit allocation: the buyer receives the right to use the line. The transmission operators still decide how much capacity is offered. SEE CAO runs the auction and publishes the result.

The live border list and any curtailment sit on seecao.com. This page does not copy today's numbers.

SEE CAO is a transmission source under Data. The capacity table stays empty until that feed is connected. A cross-border physical deal uses this capacity next to the energy traded on ALPEX.