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Alternative to a balancing platform as interim measure (Art. 48 of BAL NC)

If a trading platform was not implemented since short term wholesale gas market has or is antic- ipated to have insufficient liquidity, BAL NC of- fers TSOs with the flexibility of implementing a balancing platform. Where a balancing platform cannot increase the liquidity of the short term wholesale gas market as a result of insufficient interconnection capacity between balancing zones, an alternative to a balancing platform may be used in order to enable TSO to under- take efficient balancing actions.

As Map 12 shows, four countries (EL, IE, RO and UK-NI) reported the implementation of bal- ancing services as an alternative to a balancing platform. Compared to the previous report Ro- mania stated that an alternative to a balancing platform is in place by 1 October 2016 while in Bulgaria, the implementation of balancing ser- vices as alternative to the balancing platform is planned for 1 January 2017.

a) Bulgaria plans the implementation by during 2017

No alternative to balancing platform foreseen

Alternative to a balancing platform in place

Planned implementation a)

a) Bulgaria plans the implementation by during 2017.

Map 12:  Interim measure – Overview of current use of an alternative to a balancing platform

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