ENTSOG BAL NC Monitoring Report 2016

Table of Contents

PART I: SECOND ENTSOG MONITORING REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF BALANCING NETWORK CODE

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

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1 INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE

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2 INFORMATION SOURCES AND DATA COLLECTION

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3 EVALUATION OF RESPONSES TO QUESTIONNAIRE

10 3.1 Operational Balancing (Chapter III of BAL NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 3.1.2 Merit Order, STSP and Balancing Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.2 Balancing System (Chapter II of BAL NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 3.3 Nominations (Chapter IV of BAL NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.4 Information Provision (Chapter VIII of BAL NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 3.5 Daily Imbalance Charges (Chapter V of BAL NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3.6 Neutrality (Chapter VII of BAL NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3.7 Within Day Obligations (Chapter VI of BAL NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 3.8 Linepack Flexibility Service (Chapter IX of BAL NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 3.9 Interim measures (Chapter X of the BAL NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 40 4.1 Implementation Dates and Provisions of BAL NC in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 4.2 Overview table of Degree of Implementation of BAL NC . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 List of Abbreviations and Countries with Codes and Balancing Zones . . . . . .43 Annex II: Operational Balancing (Chapter III of BAL NC)   . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48 Annex III: Balancing System (Chapter II) and Nominations (Chapter IV of BAL NC) . . . . .58 Annex IV: Information Provision (Chapter VIII of the BAL NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 Annex V: Daily Imbalance Charge (Chapter V of the BAL NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Annex VI: Neutrality (Chapter VII of the BAL NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Annex VII: Within Day Obligations (Chapter VI of the BAL NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 Annex VIII: Interim measures (Chapter X of the BAL NC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 43 Annex I:

4 CONCLUSION

5 ANNEXES

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