Energy Consultancy – Project manager – DEP
Since joining DSO Alliander in 2020, Bas Trago has been at the forefront of concept development in the congestion management domain. As a project manager, Bas played a pivotal role in establishing Liander’s first capacity restriction contracts and developed the first group contract within the current legislative framework to facilitate an energy hub in the Port of Amsterdam. On the low voltage grid, Bas led multiple projects, one of which demonstrated the possibility of coordinating aggregated flexibility using the GOPACS redispatch functionality. Parallel to the more practical side of congestion management, Bas has also been actively involved in GOPACS, managing projects such as the EPEX-SPOT and ECC onboarding processes.
GOPACS, short for Grid Operators Platform for AnCillary Services, is an important platform to reduce capacity shortages in the electricity grid (congestion). The platform helps to keep the grid reliable and affordable. GOPACS is a collaboration of the Dutch grid operators and unique within Europe. While the electricity grid is being strengthened and expanded, GOPACS helps grid operators better match electricity supply and demand to reduce congestion.
GOPACS allows large and small market players to easily monetise their available flexibility and help resolve congestion and voltage problems. Also, the cooperation of grid operators ensures that solving a transportation problem in one part of the electricity grid does not cause a problem in another part of the grid at another grid operator. GOPACS is not a trading platform, but a market place for ancillary services. For GOPACS, the grid operators have teamed up with several energy trading platforms, such as ETPA and EPEX SPOT. Through these platforms, participants can submit their flex offers to GOPACS.