2001 key people chris peeters ceo number of employees 1 229 employees in belgium and 955 in germany subsidiaries 50hertz transmission eurogrid elia grid international website elia.be elia 1 is belgium s transmission system operator tso for high voltage electricity 30 000 380 000 volts . the company transmits electricity from generators to distribution system operators who then supply smes and homes . elia also has contracts with a number of major industrial users who are directly connected to its high voltage grid . elia s main activities include managing grid infrastructure maintaining and developing high voltage installations managing the electrical system monitoring flows maintaining the balance between electricity consumption and generation 24 7 importing and exporting to and from neighbouring countries and facilitating the market developing services and mechanisms with a view to developing the electricity market at national and european level . european directive 96 92 ec on the liberalisation of the electricity market was implemented at federal level through the law of 29 april 1999 on the organisation of the electricity market . elia was established on 28 june 2001 by merging the company for the coordination of the generation and transmission of electrical energy cpte with the electrabel entity managing the 30 380 kv grid and in 2002 it was appointed transmission system operator in accordance with the electricity act of 29 april 1999 . elia has been listed on the stock exchange since june 2005 and in the bel20 since 2012 . in 2010 elia and industry funds management acquired one of the four german transmission system operators 50hertz transmission which operates in northern and eastern germany . this move made the elia group one of europe s five biggest transmission system operators . elia group also offers consulting and engineering services through its subsidiary elia grid international egi founded in 2014 . contents 1 tariffs 2 legal framework 3 key figures 4 references 5 further reading 6 external links tariffs edit elia s transmission tariffs 2 are regulated by the belgian commission for electricity and gas regulation creg . they include connection to the transmission grid ; use of the transmission grid ; provision of ancillary services ; maintenance and restoration of the individual balance of access responsible parties ; any internal inconsistency between the nominations communicated by two access responsible parties ; public service obligations imposed on the transmission system operator ; surcharges . on 3 december 2015 creg approved a new tariff schedule for the period 2016 2019 . transmission tariffs make up part of electricity bills along with energy prices distribution tariffs and levies . legal framework edit elia is subject to belgian and european legislation with a regulator at each level to oversee its activities . the regulator at federal level is the belgian commission for electricity and gas regulation creg ; at regional level the flemish electricity and gas regulator vreg walloon energy commission cwape and brussels gas and electricity brugel ; and at european level the agency for the cooperation of energy regulators acer . key figures edit grid 3 length of elia s high voltage networks in belgium underground cables 2 874 km overhead lines 5 558 km total 8 432 km 800 high voltage substations 22 000 high voltage pylons 23 000 operations performed on the grid in 2015 flows 4 load 77.1 twh in 2015 compared to 77.2 twh in 2014 highest load in 2015 12 696 mw at 6 p.m. on 22 january 2015 lowest load in 2015 5 530 mw at 2.30 p.m. on 2 august 2015 imports 21 twh in 2015 compared to 17.6 twh in 2014 up 19.3 % exports down 54.1 % in 2015 . physical exchanges with neighbouring countries 26 twh in 2015 compared to 24.8 twh in 2014 up 4.8 % capital expenditure in 2015 5 elia 350 million 50hertz 902 million investment budget of 1.6 billion for the period 2016 2019 excluding the nemo interconnection project between belgium and the united kingdom . references edit http www.elia.be fr a propos elia qui sommes nous http www.creg.be fr tarifparametranssearch.asp elia 2015 annual report p. 18 elia 2015 annual report p. 29 elia annual report pp. 14 71 further reading edit http economie.fgov.be fr consommateurs energie electricite liberalisation marche electricite transport . v1afw2df2rq page of the fps economy smes self employed and energy in french electricity tab on the creg website in dutch and french external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title elia system operator & oldid 738588115 categories electric power transmission system operators in belgiumelectric power transmission system operators in germanyhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch fran aisnederlandsportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 9 september 2016 at 21 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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