Ranko Stojakovic

director     

   

Ranko started his career as an IT consultant and gained his experience mainly in the energy sector. Since January 2024, he has been a director at GOPACS. Prior to his role at GOPACS, Ranko worked for fourteen years at Stedin in various leadership positions. He has a background in IT. For the past three years, Ranko worked as Manager System Operator within the Asset Management department and was, among other things, responsible for the implementation of the Real Time Interface which makes assets controllable. His time at Stedin is characterized by various projects in the field of network optimization and operational excellence.  He managed the separation of commercial assets to Joulz (measurement services) and was responsible for the Operations department, including the Control Room, for more than six 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.

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