CAO Central Allocation Office GmbH was established to develop and implement coordinated congestion management solutions in the region of Central Eastern Europe region (CEE).

"CAO Central Allocation Office GmbH” is currently implementing a load-flow based explicit allocation process to allocate physical transmission rights for cross-border electricity transmission in the CEE region on behalf of the eight involved Transmission System Operators (TSO)s. As soon as the implementation will be finished and tested with TSOs and market participants, CAO will take over the daily operation of the allocation process.

CAO is an independent service company and provides the same high quality services to all market participants without discrimination. CAO has opened active communications with the electricity market participants and introduced the central helpdesk channel.