ENTSOG BAL NC Monitoring Report 2016

3.4.6 Cooperation of DSO(s), Forecasting party (-ies) towards TSO

Each DSO associated to a balancing zone and each forecasting party shall provide the TSO in the respective balancing zone with the informa- tion necessary for the information provision to the network users. It includes inputs and off- takes on the distribution system regardless whether the system is part of the balancing zone or not. 18 countries (AT, BE/LU, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FR, HU, IE, IT, LT, NL, PL, PT, SI, UK-GB and UK-NI) with the exception of six countries including Es- tonia (BG, EL, HR, RO and SK) reported that the TSO has cooperated with the DSO and forecast- ing party to define the information, its format and the providing procedure in order to ensure the due provision of information by the TSO to the network users.

According to BAL NC the national rules shall also define the format of the information provid- ed to the TSO which shall be consistent with the format used by the TSO to provide the informa- tion to the network users. 16 countries (BE/LU, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FR, IE, IT, LT, NL, PL, PT, SE, UK-GB and UK-NI) con- firmed the consistency of the format. Austria reported that the format is defined in the valid market rules (network users) or based on a bilat- eral agreement (system operators). ALOCAT and KISS-A according to the market rules; XML between the system operators. In five countries including Estonia (HR, HU, PT and UK-NI) final- isation of the format is still under development. Three countries (BG, EL and SK) indicated that it is not necessary or applicable while Romania reported as a reason the missing designation of a forecasting party.

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