JAO Confirms UA-SK Intraday Auction Platform Live, Publishes Final Bidding Timeline Ahead of 11 November First Auction

JAO published a new notice (6 November 2026) confirming that the UA<>SK intraday auctions have been 'successfully deployed' on its allocation platform and are now visible in the Auction Tool, moving from announced go-live to confirmed technical readiness. The notice specifies the exact operational timeline for both auction products — ID1 bidding 16:45–17:00 CET on D-1 for delivery hours 00:00–24:00 of D, and ID2 bidding 08:45–09:00 CET on D for hours 12:00–24:00 of D — and reiterates a pre-auction readiness checklist (entitlement requests via Amendment to Participation Agreement, Ukrenergo or SEPS/OKTE settlement agreements, and sufficient collaterals). The 11 November 2026 first ID1 auction date and 12 November 2026 ID2 start date are reconfirmed; no new design features, dates, or regulatory steps beyond what was previously disclosed.

Confirmation that the platform is technically live and operational, rather than merely scheduled, reduces execution risk for the imminent go-live and signals that JAO has completed backend deployment testing. The explicit, repeated checklist (entitlements, settlement agreements, collateral) functions as a final operational gate-check, underscoring that participants who have not completed registration, collateral posting, or settlement-agreement arrangements with Ukrenergo/SEPS-OKTE face exclusion from the very first auctions just days away.

This update reads as a final operational readiness confirmation rather than a substantive design change — the platform-deployment language and reiterated checklist suggest JAO is managing last-mile participant risk before an externally fixed go-live date it cannot move. The repetition of prerequisites across two consecutive communications (3 Nov and 6 Nov) may indicate JAO's concern about incomplete participant onboarding on this new, Ukraine-linked border, where registration and collateral compliance appear less mature than on established EU borders. The explicit publication of the ID2 start date (12 November) as a standalone milestone, distinct from the ID1 first-auction date, suggests the two product streams are being communicated and tracked as separate go-live events internally.

Rules for Intraday Capacity Allocation on Ukrainian Borders (JAO), dated November 2025, including Annex 2 - Border Specific Annex for Ukraine-Slovakia; national regulatory frameworks of Ukraine and Slovakia

First explicit intraday auction (ID1) for UA-SK border, bidding for delivery day 12 November 2026 · 11 Nov 2026

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