London (Platts)--21Dec2012/1102 am EST/1602 GMT

There will be cross-border power capacity curtailments in January 2013 between Hungary and Austria due to system balancing problems, the Central Allocation Office (CAO) said Friday.

The scheduling of capacity awarded from Hungary to Austria for the month-ahead auctions held Friday was revised to reflect that there will be no capacity offered from January 7-11 and 31 because of a lack of reserve capacities within the system.

Monthly auction scheduling initially made 200 MW/hour in export capacity available in the planning stages of the monthly balances.

The scheduling of capacity from Austria to Hungary and from Poland to the Czech Republic was also revised after the participating companies were not awarded the requested capacity, according to CAO. There was also no capacity awarded from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany to Poland due to system balancing problems.

All remaining capacity allocations between Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia and Germany have been awarded between 100 and 500 MW, CAO said.

CAO, the auction office responsible for allocating cross-border transmission capacity in Central and Eastern Europe, also published awarded capacities on the Hungarian-Croatian and Croatian-Slovenian borders.

Month-ahead auction scheduling made 400-500 MW/hour in export capacity available between Hungary and Croatia, with 300 MW/hour awarded between Croatia and Slovenia.

Following the month-ahead auctions, if additional transmission capacity fulfills the increased requirements on the individual days, exports can also be made available in the daily auction.

--Petra Witowski, petra_witowski@platts.com --Edited by Maurice Geller, maurice_geller@platts.com