HEP Group

Description of the organisation

HEP Group is a national electricity company which has been engaged in electricity production, transmission and distribution for more than one century, and with heat supply and gas distribution for the past few decades. It is organized in the form of a holding company with a number of daughter companies. The parent company of the Group, HEP d.d., performs the function of HEP Group corporate management and guarantees the conditions for the secure and reliable electricity supply to customers.

Within HEP Group there is a clear division (managerial, accounting, legal) of companies which perform regulated activities (transmission and distribution) from non-regulated ones (generation and supply).

Description of the department

The EU and Regulatory Affairs Department is part of the mother company (HEP d.d.) and has overall monitoring and coordinating role for the processes of making and implementation of energy legislation in HEP Group such as — positioning HEP Group in the decision making process at the EU level (in the EU institutions), positioning HEP Group while the transposition of EU directives and regulations into national legislation and its implement and application in daily operations. Also EU and Regulatory Affairs department is responsible for overall coordination of EU projects within HEP Group.

 

SPECIFIC INTEREST (Call, Topic) and EXPERTISE OFFERED

Relevant topic(s) in the Work Programme

Having in mind that HEP Group is an electricity company which has been engaged in electricity production, transmission and distribution, diversified portfolio of products, services and projects like heat supply and gas distribution and ESCO services — the interests are rather disbursed. Generally,  HEP Group has interest in all the groups of calls envisaged in the Work plan for 2014 – 2015 as follows:

 

Mobility for Growth: MG-5.5b-2015; MG-8.3-205; MG-8.4b-2015; and all future similar and related calls and topics in the upcoming program 2016-2017

Green Vehicles: GV-8-2015, and all future related and similar calls and topics in the upcoming program 2016-2017

Energy Efficiency — Market Uptake PDA: H2020-EE-2015-4-PDA

Within Energy Efficiency: Buildings and consumers, Heating and cooling, Industry and products, Finance for sustainable energy

Competitive Low Carbon Energy:  New knowledge and technologies, Renewable electricity and heating/cooling, Modernising the European electricity grid, Providing the energy system with flexibility through engaged energy storage technologies, Sustainable biofuels and alternative fuels for the European transport fuel mix, Enabling the decarbonisation of the use of fossil fuels during the transition to a low-carbon economy, Social, environmental and economic aspects of the energy system etc.

Smart cities and communities, Fast track to innovation for energy.

Description of the expertise offered related to the topic

HEP Group has 4,000 MW of installed capacity for electricity production and 974 MW of heat production capacity. There are 25 hydro power plants and eight thermal power plants fired by oil, natural gas or coal. Some of them produce both electricity and heat in a combined-cycle, forming the backbone of the district heating system in the cities of Zagreb and Osijek.

HEP d.d. is a co-owner of Krško Nuclear Power Plant in Slovenia.

HEP Renewable Energy Sources deals with preparation, construction and use of renewable energy sources (wind, small waterways, geothermal water, etc.).

A total of 24 000 transformer stations and 140 000 km of lines of different voltage levels. HEP Transmission System Operator and HEP Distribution System Operator (DSO) are providers of public services of electricity transmission and distribution, respectively, for the needs of participants in the Croatian market.

 

There are more than 2.3 million electricity customers and/or metering points in Croatia. Supply for eligible customers is the responsibility of HEP Supply (exposed to competition).

HEP Trade carries out the activities of purchase and sale of electricity, optimization of power plants’ operation, and trading intermediation in the domestic and international market.

HEP District Heating carries out production, distribution and supply of heat energy in number of cities. HEP Gas supplies natural gas to the customers in some counties.

HEP ESCO  is a company that provides energy services, develops executes and finances commercial energy efficiency projects.

Experience in previous Framework Programmes

  • Concerto SOLUTION/FP7/Consortium Partner/www.solution-concerto.org
  • GreenBuilding/IEE/GB Supporter/www.eu-greenbuilding.com
  • BioSolESCo/IEE/Project partner/www.biosolesco.org
  • PERMANENT/IEE/Project partner/www.permanent-project.eu
  • A2PBEER/FP7/Project Partner/www.a2pbeer.eu
  • SUNSHINE/CIP/Project Partner/www.sunshineproject.eu
  • TRAP-EE/Lifelong Learning Programme/Project Partner/www.trap.ee.eu
  • LNG Regasification vessel in Krk /Project coordinator/http://www.lng.hr/en/– LNG Croatia (company in 50% ownership of HEP d.d.)

Contact information:

Organisation address:  Ulica Grada Vukovara 37

Organisation website:  www.hep.hr

Type of organisation: Enterprise (holding company)

Department: Department for EU and Regulatory Affairs

Contact person: Tatjana Čorlija Milivojević

Telephone number:  +385 1 63 22 129

Fax number: +385 1 63 22 174

E-mail address: tatjana.corlija@hep.hr