The Electricity Trading (Development of Technical Procedures) (Day-Ahead Market Timeframe) Regulations 2021

Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Electricity Trading (Development of Technical Procedures) (Day-Ahead Market Timeframe) Regulations 2021 and come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Scotland.

(3) In these Regulations—

“Annex 29” means Annex 29 (allocation of electricity interconnector capacity at the day-ahead market timeframe) to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement(1);

“the Authority” means the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority(2);

“electricity interconnector” has the meaning given by Article 300 of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (definitions);

“GB transmission system operator” means—

(a)

a person who holds an interconnector licence under section 6(1)(e) of the Electricity Act 1989(3) and participates in the operation of an electricity interconnector,

(b)

a person who holds a transmission licence under section 6(1)(b) of the Electricity Act 1989(4) and operates the transmission system in Great Britain (and for this purpose “transmission system” has the same meaning as in section 4(4) of the Electricity Act 1989)(5),

and a reference to “GB transmission system operators” in paragraphs (1) to (3) and (7) of regulation 4 is a reference to those operators acting collectively;

“non-UK transmission system operator” means a person in a member State of the European Union who carries out the function of transmission or is responsible for operating, ensuring the maintenance of, and, if necessary, developing the electricity transmission system in a given area and, where applicable, its interconnections with other systems, and for ensuring the long-term ability of the system to meet reasonable demands for the transport of electricity;

“Northern Ireland Authority” means the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation(6);

“Northern Ireland transmission system operator” means a person who is designated as an electricity transmission system operator under Article 10H of the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992(7);

“relevant electricity market operator” means a person who, immediately before IP completion day, was designated under article 4 of Commission Regulation (EU) No. 2015/1222 of 24 July 2015 establishing a guideline on capacity allocation and congestion management(8) as a nominated electricity market operator and performed tasks in Great Britain related to single day-ahead or single intraday coupling;

“Specialised Committee on Energy” means the committee established under paragraph 1(l) of Article 8 of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (committees);

“transmission” means the transport of electricity on the extra high-voltage and high-voltage system with a view to its delivery to customers or to distributors, but does not include supply.

(1)

The Trade and Cooperation Agreement is defined in section 37(1) of the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020 (c. 29). By virtue of sections 37(4) and (5) of the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020, references in these Regulations to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement are to be read as modified accordingly.

(2)

The Gas and Electricity Markets Authority was established under section 1 of the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27).

(3)

1989 c. 29. Section 6(1)(e) was added by section 136(1) of the Energy Act 2004 (c. 20).

(4)

Section 6(1)(b) was substituted by section 145(5) of the Energy Act 2004 (c. 20).

(5)

The definition of “transmission system” in section 4(4) was substituted by section 135(4) of the Energy Act 2004 (c. 20).

(6)

The Northern Ireland Authority for Energy Regulation was established under article 3 of the Energy (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/419) (N.I. 6) and by virtue of article 3 of S.I. 2006/3336 (N.I. 21) was thereafter to be known as the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation.

(7)

S.I. 1992/231 (N.I. 1). Article 10H was added by the Gas and Electricity (Internal Markets) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/155) and amended by the Electricity (Internal Markets) Regulation (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/307).

(8)

O.J. No. L197, 25.07.2015, p. 24.