ENTSO-E’s guidelines for cost benefit analysis of grid development projects
This document describes the common principles and procedures, including network and market
modelling methodologies (see section 2.4.1), to be used when performing combined multi-criteria and
cost benefit analysis in view of elaborating Regional Investment Plans and the Community-wide Ten
Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP), as ratified by EU Regulation 714/2009 of the 3rd
Legislative Package. Following the EU Regulation on guidelines for trans-European energy
infrastructure (347/2013), it will also serve as a basis for a harmonised assessment at Union Level for
Projects of Common Interest (PCI).