ENTSOG Annual Report 2016

FIRST EFFECT MONITORING 2016

Following Article 8(8) of Regulation (EC) No 715/2009, European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSOG) shall monitor the effects of the Balancing Network Code (BAL NC) in the European market.

\\ Cluster 2015: AT, BE/LU, DE, DK, FR, HU, NL, SI and UK-GB (ten countries)

The first ENTSOG report on effect monitoring covers the im- plementation of the BAL NC and aims to monitor some of its effects per balancing zone across countries in the EU after the first implementation deadline as of 1 October 2015 for the period gas year (GY) 2015/2016. Both ACER and ENT- SOG are required to publish monitoring reports. ENTSOG has aimed to produce reports that can be considered sup- plementary to ACER’s reports. Regarding the effect monitor- ing, ENTSOG’s focus has in particular been to identify to which extent the main aims of the network codes have been achieved. ENTSOG introduces four market-based indicators (BAL.1 to BAL.4) in order to show certain effects of the implementa- tion of the BAL NC. The 24 countries (AT, BG, BE/LU, CZ, DE, DK, EL, ES, FR, HR, HU, IE, IT, LT, NL, PL, PT, SE, SI, SK, RO, UK-GB and UK-NI) where the BAL NC applies are clustered into three groups related to their chosen implementation dead- line as follow:

\\ Cluster 2016: CZ, ES, HR, IT and PT (five countries) – Only Czech Republic participated in the effect moni- toring due to an earlier implementation deadline by 1 July 2016. \\ Cluster 2019 3) : BG, EL, IE, LT, PL, SE, SK, RO and UK-NI (nine countries) – Only seven countries (EL, IE, LT, PL (H-Gas), SE, SK and UK-NI) participated in the effect monitoring as they have already implemented balancing products according to BAL NC, while the other countries indicated their plan for implementation after the period of GY 2015/2016. The Table below illustrates that in all ten countries of cluster 2015 the TSOs used STSPs only or partially in their balanc- ing merit order. Additionally, two of ten countries (DE and SI) have conducted balancing services where appropriate during GY 2015/2016 for balancing purposes.

3) In Germany in addition to a trading platform also a balancing platform applies as an interim measure. All other provisions of the BAL NC have been reported as implemented. In order to avoid duplication, Germany is clustered only once in cluster 2015.

CLUSTER

COUNTRY/ BALANCING ZONE

BAL.1 INDICATOR (GY 2015/2016)

OVERVIEW OF THE YEARLY BAL.1 INDICATOR PER COUNTRY

2015

AT

100%

* Czech Republic provided data due to its implementation deadline for the period 1 July 2016 until the end of GY 2015/2016. ** Estonia holding derogation is using balancing services only, but has not provided any data.

BE/LU

100%

DK

100%

FR (GRTgaz North/TRS)

100%

HU

100%

NL

100%

UK-GB

100%

DE (Gaspool)

96.88%

DE (NCG)

81.58%; (as of 1 May 2016) 100%

SI

85.85%

2016

CZ*

100%

2019

PL (H-Gas)

99.91%

SK

33.66%

LT

0%

No STSP, only interim measures/ balancing services in place**

EL, SE, IE, UK-NI

BG, PL (L-Gas, TGPS), RO

-

Overview of the yearly BAL.1 indicator per country which indicates the TSO usage of STSP for balancing purposes

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