The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering in East Sarajevo, Božidar Popović, and the Director of SCC, Luka Okuka, a few days ago marks a significant milestone in their partnership. The agreement reflects a natural progression since several employees of SCC graduated from this prestigious Faculty. This collaboration is expected to offer mutual benefits, supporting SCC's business goals while enhancing opportunities for the Faculty and its students.

To fulfill the obligations from Art. 17 of the Regulation (EU) 2017 / 1485 on establishing a guideline on electricity transmission system operation, ENTSO-E publishes an annual report on Regional Coordination Assessment. This report distinguishes between legally compliant services and legacy services, both performed by RSCs/RCCs.

On May 30, 2024, the Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade Dejan Gvozdić and Director of SCC Luka Okuka signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This step came naturally, since majority of SCC employees graduated from this prestigious Faculty. SCC is extremely pleased to open a new business chapter in future work with the Faculty. This cooperation aims at mutual benefits, both for SCC and for the Faculty and its students. After the signing of the MOU, both entities gave guidelines for the future actions and exchanged ideas on concretizing the cooperation between the Faculty and SCC. SCC looks forward to new challenges with the desire and hope that the future cooperation will follow the basic ideas from this MOU.

Outage Planning Coordination (OPC), one of the oldest RCC services, continues its course of keeping power system secured on year ahead and week ahead time horizons. A group of outage planning experts from all European TSOs and RCCs is gathered within OPC Sub Team (OPC ST), a part of OPC STA Task Team under the umbrella of ENTSO-E Steering Group Regional Coordination, in order to monitor existing processes as well as to develop new features in outage planning coordination.

Training and certification of staff working for Regional Coordination Centres (RCCs) is one of the tasks of RCCs according to Article 37 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943. Training and Certification Implementation Working Group (TCI WG) was established in 2022 under the umbrella of RCC Working Table (RWT) in order to implement requirements from RCC Training and Certification of Staff Methodology approved by Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER).

The second consecutive Balkan Solar Summit was held in Banski Dvor in Banja Luka, and judging by the reactions of the audience, professional public, lecturers and sponsors - expectations were exceeded and good foundations were laid for the next edition that awaits us on 27 and 28 February 2025. years.

ISE (Integrated Systems Europe) 2024 exhibition was held in Barcelona from 30. January till 02. February 2024. ISE is the largest exhibition for audio-video (AV) and systems integration industry in the world. SCC’s engineers participated in this manifestation in order to achieve additional knowledge in AV and system integration industry field, with main focus on state-of-the-art solutions for video walls technology and control rooms. SCC plans to improve operational activities with video wall implementation in its operational room. SCC engineers’ attendance on such event was significant and fruitful step for further activities on this project.

Due to business development and increase in business volume, SCC Ltd. Belgrade hired 2 new employees: Ms. Jelena Hristov-Vasiljević and Mr. Stefan Marić. We give a warm welcome to our new colleagues.

Due to business development and increase in business volume, SCC Ltd. Belgrade hired 2 new employees: Ms. Tijana Milovanović and Mr. Aleksandar Bučalina. We give a warm welcome to our new colleagues.

Due to business development and increase in business volume, SCC Ltd. Belgrade hired 2 new employees: Mr. Luka Stojisavljević and Mr. Marko Tvrdišić. We give a warm welcome to our new colleagues.

After four years of hard work, TRINITY project comes to an end. Final review meeting was held in Valencia on the 15th and 16th of November 2023 in front of European Commission reviewers. Following successful identification and definition of use cases, requirements, assets and KPIs in WP2, TRINITY project developed four different products

JSC Georgian State Electrosystem (GSE) is Georgian TSO which aims for full integration into ENTSO-E. As part of a five-day workshop organized by EKC for Georgian TSO delegation, SCC’s engineers participated as lecturers on the topic of power system security of supply. As part of the presentation, a visit to the premises of SCC was also organized.

TEİAŞ is SCC’s service users with the largest power system. Meetings and workshops with TEİAŞ are always a source of interesting knowledge about power system operation bearing in mind the geography and other specificities of the Turkish power system.

On the 20th of September 2023, SCC Ltd. Belgrade had a pleasure to organise physical RWT meeting in our premises. We had pleasure to host this meeting for 11 representatives coming from: Baltic RCC, Coreso, Nordic RCC, Selene CC and TSCNET, including several colleagues that were connected via video link.

Based on the decision of Supervisory Board, starting from 01.08.2023 new Director of SCC Ltd. Belgrade will be Mr. Luka Okuka. All the best to Mr. Okuka on this position - challenges bring us together.

Due to business development and increase in business volume, SCC Ltd. Belgrade hired 2 new employees: Ms. Jasmina Đorđević and Ms. Anđela Krljaš. We give a warm welcome to our new colleagues.

36th CIGRE Serbia conference was held in the period 22nd – 26th May 2023, in Zlatibor. SCC participated with the paper “Usage of T-COORDINATION platform in the processes of coordinated security analysis and coordinated capacity calculation”, describing parts of development within TRINITY project.

Due to business development and increase in business volume, SCC Ltd. Belgrade hired 2 new Operational and development engineers: Ms. Bojana Stevanović and Mr. Branko Radičević. We give a warm welcome to our new colleagues.

Every year, the Regional Coordination Conference brings together leading experts from the industry, associations, EU institutions, regulatory authorities, the academic world and the Member States to debate on developments and challenges related to TSO regional coordination and the European power system in general.

At the beginning of the October 2022, R2D2 consortium officially started its activities with a General Assembly in Valencia (Spain). More than 40 experts, from 17 European entities participating in this international research effort, met during two days in different workshops and sessions in order to define the demonstration activities that will be run by the project during the next three years.

Due to business development and increase in business volume, SCC Ltd. Belgrade hired 2 new Operational and development engineers: Ms. Katarina Đorđievska and Ms. Jovana Mićić. We give a warm welcome to our new colleagues.

After four and a half years of hard work, CROSSBOW project comes to an end. Final review meeting was held in Belgrade on the 28th and 29th of June 2022 in front of European Commission reviewers.

The goal of SEleNe CC - SCC meeting was to improve coordination and cooperation between mentioned companies. There was enough time to discuss about TRINITY PROJECT as well. SCC was visited by the CEO of SEleNe CC Yannis Kampouris, with part of his team.

Due to business development and increase in business volume, the need for IT expert position occurred. SCC engaged Mr. Velimir Nešić on this position. We give a warm welcome to our new colleague.

35th CIGRE Serbia conference was held in the period 3rd – 7th October 2021, in Zlatibor, RS. SCC participated with two papers describing parts of development within CROSSBOW and TRINITY projects (see more on crossbowproject.eu and trinityh2020.eu). Both papers were presented to the audience consisted of people from university, institutes, equipment producers, system operators and energy producers.

Association "Čep za hendikep" is an original "grassroots" civic initiative which was established in 2012 with a mission to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities and to strive for the realization of the full potential of every person with disabilities using the available resources in the community.

Due to business development and increase in business volume, SCC Ltd. Belgrade hired 2 new Operational and development engineers: Ms. Kristina Janošević and Mr. Nikola Bošković. We give a warm welcome to our new colleagues.

After successful harmonization of Services agreement for Regional Security Coordination between TEIAS and SCC, Chairman of the Board and General Manager of TEIAS Mr. Orhan Kaldirim and Director of SCC Mr. Duško Tubić have signed Services agreement. TEIAS will procure services from SCC starting from 10th of May 2021

The Innovation Radar is European Commission's data-driven method focused on the identification of high potential innovations and the key innovators behind them in EU-funded Research and Innovation projects. We are delighted to inform you that SCC was recognized as one of the 'Key Innovators'.

SCC together with Schneider Electric DMS NS finalised ENAS project by implementing new tool for operational work called Enterprise Transmission Network Analyzer (eTNA). In eTNA old capabilities are upgraded with new features: European Merging Function (EMF), Remedial Action (RA) module, enhanced Net Transfer Capacity (NTC) module, server-based tool, results stored in database and many more.

At the beginning of the October 2019, TRINITY consortium officially started its activities with a General Assembly in Brussels (Belgium). More than 40 experts, from 19 European entities participating in this international research effort, met during two days in different workshops and sessions in order to define the demonstration activities that will be run by the project during the next four years. As discussed in the Assembly, goal of the Project is to develop a set of solutions to enhance cooperation among the transmission system operators of SEE in order to support the integration of the electricity markets in the region, whilst promoting higher penetration of clean energies. This strategic goal will be driven by end-users (5 TSOs, 4 NEMOS, 2 RES Producers and 1 RSC) and will be achieved through the deployment in the region of four independent, but complementary, products: T-Market Coupling Framework; T-Sentinel Toolset; T-RES Control Center and T-Coordination Platform.

Due to business development and increase in business volume, SCC hired 3 new Operational and development engineers: Ms. Dušica Drašković, Mr. Dario Stefan and Mr. Predrag Simić. We give a warm welcome to our new colleagues.

After successful harmonization of Services agreement of Regional Security Coordination between OST and SCC, General Director of OST Mr. Klodian Gradeci and Director of SCC Mr. Duško Tubić signed Services agreement.

At the end of 2016, Western Balkans Investment Framework (WBIF) granted a donation to SCC for the project ‘Technical assistance for South East European Regional Security Coordination Initiative’ - SEE RSCI. This project included technical assistance for improving RSC business processes, upgrade of existing software used for providing RSC services to our users as well as development of new software tools, which included alignment of our operation tool with the RSC requirements defined by the Network codes/Guidelines and ENTSO-E MLAs. After preparatory works and successful tendering procedure, in 2018 Contract for development software and consulting services was signed between SCC and Schneider Electric DMS Novi Sad, thus starting ENAS (Electricity Network Analysing Software) project.

Due to business development and increase in business volume, SCC hired 5 new Operational and development engineers: Ms. Marijana Marić, Mr. Andrej Tasić, Mr. Filip Aleksić, Mr. Petar Marković and Mr. Petar Orlić. We give a warm welcome to our new colleagues.

After successful harmonization of Services agreement of Regional Security Coordination between MEPSO and SCC, General Director of MEPSO Mr. Sašo Vasilevski and Director of SCC Mr. Duško Tubić signed Services agreement. MEPSO will start to procure services from SCC from 1st of March 2018.

After successful harmonization of Services agreement for Regional Security Coordination between ESO and SCC, ESO CEO Mr. Ivan Yotov and Director of SCC Mr. Duško Tubić have signed Services agreement on October 31st 2017 in Sofia. ESO will procure services from SCC starting from 1st of January 2018.

Due to business development and increase in business volume, the need for Head of operational department was created. SCC welcomed Mr. Nikola Đerić, new member of the working team. We give a warm welcome to our new colleague.

After successful harmonization of Services agreement for Regional Security Coordination between IPTO and SCC, IPTO CEO Mr. Manousos Manousakis and Director of SCC Mr. Duško Tubić have signed Services agreement. IPTO will procure services from SCC starting from 1st of December 2017.

The CROSSBOW consortium officially started its activities with a General Assembly hosted by the Ministry of Energy and the national Transmission System Operator in Bulgaria (ESO). The opening session counted with the welcome of Bulgarian Minister of Energy Ms. Temenujka Petkova. In total, 77 experts from the 24 entities participating in this international research event met during two days in different workshops and sessions in order to define the demonstration activities that will be run by the project during the next four years, targeting the wide adoption of clean energies in South Eastern Europe.

Due to business development and increase in business volume, SCC hired Business - Technical Assistant and Operational and development engineer, respectively, Ms. Maja Lipjankić and Mr. Nemanja Stojković. We give a warm welcome to our new colleagues.

It was our pleasure to host NORDIC RSC representatives: Mr. Jens Møller Birkebæk, NORDIC RSC Manager, Mr. Stig Richard Hansen and Mr. Viktor Johansson. SCC shared the knowledge and experience of RSC services with our colleagues.

In order to improve quality of services and due to increase in business volume including Intra Day Congestion Forecast procedure 3 time per day, as minimally required by Regional Group Continental Europe, SCC hired 2 new Operational and development engineers

The goal of ENTSO-E - SCC meeting was to present SCC's activities and developments plans, to discuss possible way of SCC cooperation with SEE TOSs and involvement of SCC in ENTSO-E activities and projects. This meeting was attended by representatives of Serbian Transmission System Operator “Elektromreža Srbija” (EMS) and energy consultant company “Elektroenergetski koordinacioni centar” (EKC), which is strongly supporting SCC’s development in our first business years.

Founded as a regional company, SCC’s main objective is to develop necessary services defined by ENTSO-E’s Policy Paper “Future TSO Coordination for Europe” in order to fulfil operational planning standards which are defined by European Network Codes/Guidelines. According to this paper, main services that RSCs should provide to TSOs are:

Following the form defined by ENTSO-E’s Policy Paper “Core strategy for TSO Coordination” and European network codes and guidelines, the need to improve mutual cooperation and coordination in the South East Europe (SEE) was first recognized by the Transmission System Operators (TSOs) of Serbia (EMS AD) and Montenegro (CGES AD), as well as by the Independent System Operator (ISO) from Bosnia and Herzegovina (NOSBiH). These 3 national entities established the Security Coordination Centre SCC Ltd. Belgrade on 15 June, 2015. The goal of SCC is to be modernly organised, efficient company, with applied advanced technologies and high-quality professional staff, that performs Regional Security Coordinator (RSC) services, instead of each individual TSO. In that manner, resource savings are achieved and quality of coordination is increased, which is in the spirit of modern European regulations in the field of electricity transmission.