Turkey's Connection With ENTSO-E And T-CAT Auction System

ENTSO-E is a very essential step for uniting the EU Member States' transmission grids. To define it briefly, it is the biggest Transmission System Operator throughout Europe. The ENTSO-E association has been established with the 3^rd liberalization package in the light of the EU legislations. Currently, ENTSO-E grid contains 42 Transmission System Operators (TSO's) from 34 countries, which now share a synchronous transmission grid in the EU. There are 6 main structures constitute the ENTSO-E grid: those are ATSOI (Association of the Transmission System Operators of Ireland); BALTSO (Baltic Transmission System Operators); ETSO (European Transmission System Operators); NORDEL (Association of TSOs from Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden); UCTE (Union for the Coordination of the Transmission of Electricity); and UKTSOA (UK Transmission System Operators Association).