GO15 association
The highest managing director of body of Association is the Management board which annually gathers for discussion of annual results of work of members of Association and determination of the work plan next year. The Management board includes heads of system operators of the largest power supply systems or their plenipotentiaries. Executive body of GO15 is the Administrative board.
2018
The association of system operators of the largest power supply systems GO15 during the 15th annual meeting which took place in Milan made the decision on continuation in 2019 of researches within the strategic working groups and the joint project.
In 2019 strategic working group No. 1 "Management of power supply system in the conditions of change of structure of generation, including growth of a share of RES" and strategic working group No. 2 "Stability and survivability of power supply systems" will be engaged in joint surveys. Representatives of the system operators interested in the corresponding direction of researches enter into each working group. Except these two working groups in 2019 the strategic working group on external relations will continue work. The Russian system operator is provided in all working groups.
Representatives of JSC SO UES suggested to implement in 2019 the joint project on traditional generation. Within the project experiment of the different countries on such important aspects as measures for maintenance of the minimum share of traditional thermal generation in balance of power supply system taking into account its economic and technical characteristics will be studied; support of renovation of fixed assets of thermal generation; upgrade of the principles of work of the electricity markets and capacities for the simultaneous functioning of traditional generation and renewable sources having zero variable costs.
"Change of structure of generation towards increase in a share of RES in world power supply systems will nonsynchronously happen, – the vice chairman of the board of JSC SO UES, the president of GO15 Fedor Opadchy reminded, submitting the joint project at the annual meeting. – For many power supply systems traditional thermal generation will remain a basis of power balance a progressive tense, for this reason in many countries development of special measures of support of traditional thermal generation and also system implementation of management and forecasting of rates of its output from operation is required".
JSC SO UES together with ESKOM (the system and network operator of the Republic of South Africa, manages the large volume of coal generation) will be worked out by offers on this question for discussion at the next meeting of GO15 administrative board which will take place in the spring of 2019.
During the annual meeting of GO15 the results of activity of the working groups in 2018 are summed up. At the same time within development of cooperation with other industry international organizations another joint seminar of GO15 and International association of regulators on power of ICER on which models of power supply systems of the future were discussed took place. According to members of GO15, such actions allow to exchange knowledge and experience that finally promotes increase in stability and survivability of power supply system, digital transformation of the industry and implementation of technology innovations for increase in flexibility of management of power supply system and stability of its work.
Participants of Association also emphasized importance of ensuring cyber security and a current trend on transformation of cyber security in a crucial element as a part of powers of the system operator. Besides, members of GO15 noted need of interdepartmental interaction and planning at emergence of emergency situations.
2014
In 2014 as a part of Administrative board four Expert committees coordinating and synchronizing activity of working groups GO15 were created. Tasks of committees cover all priority areas of work of association: integration distributed and renewable energy sources in power supply systems (committee No. 1 — Grid for Flexible Resources, "Flexibility of management of power supply system"), development of network infrastructure and ensuring reliability of work of power supply systems (committee No. 2 — Grid for Reliability and Security, "Reliability and safety of work of power supply system"), economic and regulatory problems of functioning of big power supply systems (committee No. 3 — Grid Economic Sustainability, "Economic indicators of stability") and development of information and technology and telecommunication systems of management in power industry (committee No. 4 — Grid Intelligence, "Intelligent systems and IT"). The vice chairman of the board of JSC SO UES Fedor Opadchy is a cochairman of Expert committee No. 4 "Intelligent systems and IT" together with representatives of two system operators of China.