Mike ten Wolde - FLEXCON, 20 & 21 september 2023 Brussels

Mike ten Wolde has been director of GOPACS since January 2024. Before being appointed at GOPACS, he worked for almost four years at TenneT TSO in Arnhem on various projects, including congestion management, reactive power and batteries. He was closely involved in the creation of the National Energy Dashboard, the sale of ETPA and in the merger between CertiQ and Vertogas. Mike

has been shareholder representative for several TenneT subsidiaries. Mike’s extensive work experience in IT, engineering and consulting includes roles at various companies, including manager of mergers and acquisitions at EY. He has a background in finance, mechanical engineering and in transportation, infrastructure and logistics. Prior to his appointment, Mike ten Wolde had been involved on the sidelines at GOPACS for 2.5 years.

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.