The Estonian competition authority, in collaboration with the Public Utilities Commission of Latvia and the National Energy Regulatory Council of Lithuania, has published a report on the available margin for cross-zonal electricity trade in the Baltic States for the year 2024.

This report is in accordance with Article 16(8) of the European Parliament and Council Regulation (EU) 2019/943, which addresses the internal electricity market. It stipulates that transmission system operators must not restrict the amount of capacity made available to market participants to manage transmission capacity limitations within their offering area or to manage power flows resulting from internal transactions.

For borders where a coordinated net transmission capacity method is used, a minimum threshold of 70% of the operational reliability limits of the transmission capacity must be maintained, after accounting for exceptional circumstances. This measure, which mandates that the available margin for cross-zonal electricity trade using the coordinated net transmission capacity method must be at least 70%, has been in effect since January 1, 2020.

A detailed overview of the available margin for cross-zonal electricity trade in the Baltic States from the previous year can be found in the report.