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For the purpose of safeguarding operational security, frequency quality and the efficient use of the interconnected system and resources, this Regulation lays down detailed guidelines on:
requirements and principles concerning operational security;
rules and responsibilities for the coordination and data exchange between TSOs, between TSOs and DSOs, and between TSOs or DSOs and SGUs, in operational planning and in close to real-time operation;
rules for training and certification of system operator employees;
requirements on outage coordination;
requirements for scheduling between the TSOs' control areas; and
rules aiming at the establishment of a Union framework for load-frequency control and reserves.
1.The rules and requirements set out in this Regulation shall apply to the following SGUs:
(a)existing and new power generating modules that are, or would be, classified as type B, C and D in accordance with the criteria set out in Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/631(1);
(b)existing and new transmission-connected demand facilities;
(c)existing and new transmission-connected closed distribution systems;
(d)existing and new demand facilities, closed distribution systems and third parties if they provide demand response directly to the TSO in accordance with the criteria in Article 27 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1388(2);
(e)providers of redispatching of power generating modules or demand facilities by means of aggregation and providers of active power reserve in accordance with Title 8 of Part IV of this Regulation; and
(f)existing and new high voltage direct current (‘HVDC’) systems in accordance with the criteria in Article 3(1) of Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1447(3).
2.This Regulation shall apply to all transmission systems, distribution systems and interconnections in the Union and regional security coordinators, except transmission systems and distribution systems or parts of the transmission systems and distribution systems located in islands of Member States of which the systems are not operated synchronously with Continental Europe (‘CE’), Great Britain (‘GB’), Nordic, Ireland and Northern Ireland (‘IE/NI’) or Baltic synchronous area.
3.Where more than one TSO exists in a Member State, this Regulation shall apply to all TSOs in a Member State. Where a TSO does not have a function relevant to one or more obligations under this Regulation, Member States may, under the national regulatory regime, provide that the responsibility of a TSO to comply with one or some or all obligations under this Regulation is assigned to one or more specific TSOs.
4.The TSOs of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are, as long as and to the extent that they are operating in a synchronous mode in a synchronous area where not all countries are bound by Union legislation, exempted from the application of the provisions listed in Annex I to this Regulation, unless otherwise foreseen in a cooperation agreement with third country TSOs setting the basis for their cooperation concerning secure system operation pursuant to Article 13.
5.Where the requirements under this Regulation are to be established by a relevant system operator that is not a TSO, Member States may provide that instead the TSO be responsible for establishing the relevant requirements.
1.For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 714/2009, Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1222(4), Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/631, Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1388, Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1447, Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1719(5), Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 543/2013(6) on submission and publication of data in electricity markets and Article 2 of Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(7) shall apply.
2.In addition, the following definitions shall apply:
‘operational security’ means the transmission system's capability to retain a normal state or to return to a normal state as soon as possible, and which is characterised by operational security limits;
‘constraint’ means a situation in which there is a need to prepare and activate a remedial action in order to respect operational security limits;
‘N-situation’ means the situation where no transmission system element is unavailable due to occurrence of a contingency;
‘contingency list’ means the list of contingencies to be simulated in order to test the compliance with the operational security limits;
‘normal state’ means a situation in which the system is within operational security limits in the N-situation and after the occurrence of any contingency from the contingency list, taking into account the effect of the available remedial actions;
‘frequency containment reserves’ or ‘FCR’ means the active power reserves available to contain system frequency after the occurrence of an imbalance;
‘frequency restoration reserves’ or ‘FRR’ means the active power reserves available to restore system frequency to the nominal frequency and, for a synchronous area consisting of more than one LFC area, to restore power balance to the scheduled value;
‘replacement reserves’ or ‘RR’ means the active power reserves available to restore or support the required level of FRR to be prepared for additional system imbalances, including generation reserves;
‘reserve provider’ means a legal entity with a legal or contractual obligation to supply FCR, FRR or RR from at least one reserve providing unit or reserve providing group;
‘reserve providing unit’ means a single or an aggregation of power generating modules and/or demand units connected to a common connection point fulfilling the requirements to provide FCR, FRR or RR;
‘reserve providing group’ means an aggregation of power generating modules, demand units and/or reserve providing units connected to more than one connection point fulfilling the requirements to provide FCR, FRR or RR;
‘load-frequency control area’ or ‘LFC area’ means a part of a synchronous area or an entire synchronous area, physically demarcated by points of measurement at interconnectors to other LFC areas, operated by one or more TSOs fulfilling the obligations of load-frequency control;
‘time to restore frequency’ means the maximum expected time after the occurrence of an instantaneous power imbalance smaller than or equal to the reference incident in which the system frequency returns to the frequency restoration range for synchronous areas with only one LFC area and in the case of synchronous areas with more than one LFC area, the maximum expected time after the occurrence of an instantaneous power imbalance of an LFC area within which the imbalance is compensated;
‘(N-1) criterion’ means the rule according to which the elements remaining in operation within a TSO's control area after occurrence of a contingency are capable of accommodating the new operational situation without violating operational security limits;
‘(N-1) situation’ means the situation in the transmission system in which one contingency from the contingency list occurred;
‘active power reserve’ means the balancing reserves available for maintaining the frequency;
‘alert state’ means the system state in which the system is within operational security limits, but a contingency from the contingency list has been detected and in case of its occurrence the available remedial actions are not sufficient to keep the normal state;
‘load-frequency control block’ or ‘LFC block’ means a part of a synchronous area or an entire synchronous area, physically demarcated by points of measurement at interconnectors to other LFC blocks, consisting of one or more LFC areas, operated by one or more TSOs fulfilling the obligations of load-frequency control;
‘area control error’ or ‘ACE’ means the sum of the power control error (‘ΔP’), that is the real-time difference between the measured actual real time power interchange value (‘P’) and the control program (‘P0’) of a specific LFC area or LFC block and the frequency control error (‘K*Δf’), that is the product of the K-factor and the frequency deviation of that specific LFC area or LFC block, where the area control error equals ΔP+K*Δf;
‘control program’ means a sequence of set-point values for the netted power interchange of a LFC area or LFC block over alternating current (‘AC’) interconnectors;
‘voltage control’ means the manual or automatic control actions at the generation node, at the end nodes of the AC lines or HVDC systems, on transformers, or other means, designed to maintain the set voltage level or the set value of reactive power;
‘blackout state’ means the system state in which the operation of part or all of the transmission system is terminated;
‘internal contingency’ means a contingency within the TSO's control area, including interconnectors;
‘external contingency’ means a contingency outside the TSO's control area and excluding interconnectors, with an influence factor higher than the contingency influence threshold;
‘influence factor’ means the numerical value used to quantify the greatest effect of the outage of a transmission system element located outside of the TSO's control area excluding interconnectors, in terms of a change in power flows or voltage caused by that outage, on any transmission system element. The higher is the value the greater the effect;
‘contingency influence threshold’ means a numerical limit value against which the influence factors are checked and the occurrence of a contingency located outside of the TSO's control area with an influence factor higher than the contingency influence threshold is considered to have a significant impact on the TSO's control area including interconnectors;
‘contingency analysis’ means a computer based simulation of contingencies from the contingency list;
‘critical fault clearing time’ means the maximum fault duration for which the transmission system retains stability of operation;
‘fault’ means all types of short-circuits (single-, double- and triple-phase, with and without earth contact), a broken conductor, interrupted circuit, or an intermittent connection, resulting in the permanent non-availability of the affected transmission system element;
‘transmission system element’ means any component of the transmission system;
‘disturbance’ means an unplanned event that may cause the transmission system to divert from the normal state;
‘dynamic stability’ is a common term including the rotor angle stability, frequency stability and voltage stability;
‘dynamic stability assessment’ means the operational security assessment in terms of dynamic stability;
‘frequency stability’ means the ability of the transmission system to maintain frequency stable in the N-situation and after being subjected to a disturbance;
‘voltage stability’ means the ability of a transmission system to maintain acceptable voltages at all nodes in the transmission system in the N-situation and after being subjected to a disturbance;
‘system state’ means the operational state of the transmission system in relation to the operational security limits which can be normal state, alert state, emergency state, blackout state and restoration state;
‘emergency state’ means the system state in which one or more operational security limits are violated;
‘restoration state’ means the system state in which the objective of all activities in the transmission system is to re-establish the system operation and maintain operational security after the blackout state or the emergency state;
‘exceptional contingency’ means the simultaneous occurrence of multiple contingencies with a common cause;
‘frequency deviation’ means the difference between the actual and the nominal frequency of the synchronous area which can be negative or positive;
‘system frequency’ means the electric frequency of the system that can be measured in all parts of the synchronous area under the assumption of a coherent value for the system in the timeframe of seconds, with only minor differences between different measurement locations;
‘frequency restoration process’ or ‘FRP’ means a process that aims at restoring frequency to the nominal frequency and, for synchronous areas consisting of more than one LFC area, a process that aims at restoring the power balance to the scheduled value;
‘frequency restoration control error’ or ‘FRCE’ means the control error for the FRP which is equal to the ACE of a LFC area or equal to the frequency deviation where the LFC area geographically corresponds to the synchronous area;
‘schedule’ means a reference set of values representing the generation, consumption or exchange of electricity for a given time period;
‘K-factor of an LFC area or LFC block’ means a value expressed in megawatts per hertz (‘MW/Hz’), which is as close as practical to, or greater than the sum of the auto-control of generation, self-regulation of load and of the contribution of frequency containment reserve relative to the maximum steady-state frequency deviation;
‘local state’ means the qualification of an alert, emergency or blackout state when there is no risk of extension of the consequences outside of the control area including interconnectors connected to this control area;
‘maximum steady-state frequency deviation’ means the maximum expected frequency deviation after the occurrence of an imbalance equal to or less than the reference incident at which the system frequency is designed to be stabilised;
‘observability area’ means a TSO's own transmission system and the relevant parts of distribution systems and neighbouring TSOs' transmission systems, on which the TSO implements real-time monitoring and modelling to maintain operational security in its control area including interconnectors;
‘neighbouring TSOs’ means the TSOs directly connected via at least one AC or DC interconnector;
‘operational security analysis’ means the entire scope of the computer based, manual and automatic activities performed in order to assess the operational security of the transmission system and to evaluate the remedial actions needed to maintain operational security;
‘operational security indicators’ means indicators used by TSOs to monitor the operational security in terms of system states as well as faults and disturbances influencing operational security;
‘operational security ranking’ means the ranking used by TSOs to monitor the operational security on the basis of the operational security indicators;
‘operational tests’ means the tests carried out by a TSO or DSO for maintenance, development of system operation practices and training and to acquire information on transmission system behaviour under abnormal system conditions and the tests carried out by significant grid users for similar purposes on their facilities;
‘ordinary contingency’ means the occurrence of a contingency of a single branch or injection;
‘out-of-range contingency’ means the simultaneous occurrence of multiple contingencies without a common cause, or a loss of power generating modules with a total loss of generation capacity exceeding the reference incident;
‘ramping rate’ means the rate of change of active power by a power generating module, demand facility or HVDC system;
‘reactive power reserve’ means the reactive power which is available for maintaining voltage;
‘reference incident’ means the maximum positive or negative power deviation occurring instantaneously between generation and demand in a synchronous area, considered in the FCR dimensioning;
‘rotor angle stability’ means the ability of synchronous machines to remain in synchronism under N-situation and after being subject to a disturbance;
‘security plan’ means the plan containing a risk assessment of critical TSO's assets to major physical- and cyber-threat scenarios with an assessment of the potential impacts;
‘stability limits’ means the permitted boundaries for the operation of the transmission system in terms of respecting the limits of voltage stability, rotor angle stability and frequency stability;
‘wide area state’ means the qualification of an alert state, emergency state or blackout state when there is a risk of propagation to the interconnected transmission systems;
‘system defence plan’ means the technical and organisational measures to be undertaken to prevent the propagation or deterioration of a disturbance in the transmission system, in order to avoid a wide area state disturbance and blackout state;
‘topology’ means the data concerning the connectivity of the different transmission system or distribution system elements in a substation and includes the electrical configuration and the position of circuit breakers and isolators;
‘transitory admissible overloads’ means the temporary overloads of transmission system elements which are allowed for a limited period and which do not cause physical damage to the transmission system elements as long as the defined duration and thresholds are respected;
‘virtual tie-line’ means an additional input of the controllers of the involved LFC areas that has the same effect as a measuring value of a physical interconnector and allows exchange of electric energy between the respective areas;
‘flexible alternating current transmission systems’ or ‘FACTS’ means equipment for the alternating current transmission of electric power, aiming at enhanced controllability and increased active power transfer capability;
‘adequacy’ means the ability of in-feeds into an area to meet the load in that area;
‘aggregated netted external schedule’ means a schedule representing the netted aggregation of all external TSO schedules and external commercial trade schedules between two scheduling areas or between a scheduling area and a group of other scheduling areas;
‘availability plan’ means the combination of all planned availability statuses of a relevant asset for a given time period;
‘availability status’ means the capability of a power generating module, grid element or demand facility to provide a service for a given time period, regardless of whether or not it is in operation;
‘close to real-time’ means the time lapse of not more than 15 minutes between the last intraday gate closure and real-time;
‘consumption schedule’ means a schedule representing the consumption of a demand facility or of a group of demand facilities;
‘ENTSO for Electricity operational planning data environment’ means the set of application programs and equipment developed in order to allow the storage, exchange and management of the data used for operational planning processes between TSOs;
‘external commercial trade schedule’ means a schedule representing the commercial exchange of electricity between market participants in different scheduling areas;
‘external TSO schedule’ means a schedule representing the exchange of electricity between TSOs in different scheduling areas;
‘forced outage’ means the unplanned removal from service of a relevant asset for any urgent reason that is not under the operational control of the operator of the concerned relevant asset;
‘generation schedule’ means a schedule representing the electricity generation of a power generating module or of a group of power generating modules;
‘internal commercial trade schedule’ means a schedule representing the commercial exchange of electricity within a scheduling area between different market participants;
‘internal relevant asset’ means a relevant asset which is part of a TSO's control area or a relevant asset located in a distribution system, including a closed distribution system, which is connected directly or indirectly to that TSO's control area;
‘netted area AC position’ means the netted aggregation of all AC external schedules of an area;
‘outage coordination region’ means a combination of control areas for which TSOs define procedures to monitor and where necessary coordinate the availability status of relevant assets in all time-frames;
‘relevant demand facility’ means a demand facility which participates in the outage coordination and the availability status of which influences cross-border operational security;
‘relevant asset’ means any relevant demand facility, relevant power generating module, or relevant grid element partaking in the outage coordination;
‘relevant grid element’ means any component of a transmission system, including interconnectors, or of a distribution system, including a closed distribution system, such as a single line, a single circuit, a single transformer, a single phase-shifting transformer, or a voltage compensation installation, which participates in the outage coordination and the availability status of which influences cross-border operational security;
‘outage planning incompatibility’ means the state in which a combination of the availability status of one or more relevant grid elements, relevant power generating modules, and/or relevant demand facilities and the best estimate of the forecasted electricity grid situation leads to violation of operational security limits taking into account remedial actions without costs which are at the TSO's disposal;
‘outage planning agent’ means an entity with the task of planning the availability status of a relevant power generating module, a relevant demand facility or a relevant grid element;
‘relevant power generating module’ means a power generating module which participates in the outage coordination and the availability status of which influences cross-border operational security;
‘regional security coordinator’ (‘RSC’) means the entity or entities, owned or controlled by TSOs, in one or more capacity calculation regions performing tasks related to TSO regional coordination;
‘scheduling agent’ means the entity or entities with the task of providing schedules from market participants to TSOs, or where applicable third parties;
‘scheduling area’ means an area within which the TSOs' obligations regarding scheduling apply due to operational or organisational needs;
‘week-ahead’ means the week prior to the calendar week of operation;
‘year-ahead’ means the year prior to the calendar year of operation;
‘affected TSO’ means a TSO for which information on the exchange of reserves and/or sharing of reserves and/or imbalance netting process and/or cross-border activation process is needed for the analysis and maintenance of operational security;
‘reserve capacity’ means the amount of FCR, FRR or RR that needs to be available to the TSO;
‘exchange of reserves’ means the possibility of a TSO to access reserve capacity connected to another LFC area, LFC block, or synchronous area to fulfil its reserve requirements resulting from its own reserve dimensioning process of either FCR, FRR or RR and where that reserve capacity is exclusively for that TSO, and is not taken into account by any other TSO to fulfil its reserve requirements resulting from their respective reserve dimensioning processes;
‘sharing of reserves’ means a mechanism in which more than one TSO takes the same reserve capacity, being FCR, FRR or RR, into account to fulfil their respective reserve requirements resulting from their reserve dimensioning processes;
‘alert state trigger time’ means the time before alert state becomes active;
‘automatic FRR’ means FRR that can be activated by an automatic control device;
‘automatic FRR activation delay’ means the period of time between the setting of a new setpoint value by the frequency restoration controller and the start of physical automatic FRR delivery;
‘automatic FRR full activation time’ means the time period between the setting of a new setpoint value by the frequency restoration controller and the corresponding activation or deactivation of automatic FRR;
‘average FRCE data’ means the set of data consisting of the average value of the recorded instantaneous FRCE of a LFC area or a LFC block within a given measured period time;
‘control capability providing TSO’ means the TSO that shall trigger the activation of its reserve capacity for a control capability receiving TSO under the conditions of an agreement for sharing reserves;
‘control capability receiving TSO’ means the TSO calculating reserve capacity by taking into account reserve capacity which is accessible through a control capability providing TSO under the conditions of an agreement for sharing reserves;
‘criteria application process’ means the process of calculating the target parameters for the synchronous area, the LFC block and the LFC area based on the data obtained in the data collection and delivery process;
‘data collection and delivery process’ means the process of collection of the set of data necessary in order to perform the frequency quality evaluation criteria;
‘cross-border FRR activation process’ means a process agreed between the TSOs participating in the process that allows for activation of FRR connected in a different LFC area by correcting the input of the involved FRPs accordingly;
‘cross-border RR activation process’ means a process agreed between the TSOs participating in the process that allows for activation of RR connected in a different LFC area by correcting the input of the involved RRP accordingly;
‘dimensioning incident’ means the highest expected instantaneously occurring active power imbalance within a LFC block in both positive and negative direction;
‘electrical time deviation’ means the time discrepancy between synchronous time and coordinated universal time (‘UTC’);
‘FCR full activation frequency deviation’ means the rated value of frequency deviation at which the FCR in a synchronous area is fully activated;
‘FCR full activation time’ means the time period between the occurrence of the reference incident and the corresponding full activation of the FCR;
‘FCR obligation’ means the part of all of the FCR that falls under the responsibility of a TSO;
‘frequency containment process’ or ‘FCP’ means a process that aims at stabilising the system frequency by compensating imbalances by means of appropriate reserves;
‘frequency coupling process’ means a process agreed between all TSOs of two synchronous areas that allows linking the activation of FCR by an adaptation of HVDC flows between the synchronous areas;
‘frequency quality defining parameter’ means the main system frequency variables that define the principles of frequency quality;
‘frequency quality target parameter’ means the main system frequency target on which the behaviour of FCR, FRR and RR activation processes is evaluated in normal state;
‘frequency quality evaluation criteria’ means a set of calculations using system frequency measurements that allows the evaluation of the quality of the system frequency against the frequency quality target parameters;
‘frequency quality evaluation data’ means the set of data that allows the calculation of the frequency quality evaluation criteria;
‘frequency recovery range’ means the system frequency range to which the system frequency is expected to return in the GB and IE/NI synchronous areas, after the occurrence of an imbalance equal to or smaller than the reference incident, within the time to recover frequency;
‘time to recover frequency’ means, for the synchronous areas GB and IE/NI, the maximum expected time after the occurrence of an imbalance smaller than or equal to the reference incident in which the system frequency returns to the maximum steady state frequency deviation;
‘frequency restoration range’ means the system frequency range to which the system frequency is expected to return in the GB, IE/NI and Nordic synchronous areas, after the occurrence of an imbalance equal to or smaller than the reference incident within the time to restore frequency;
‘FRCE target parameters’ means the main target LFC block variables on the basis of which the dimensioning criteria for FRR and RR of the LFC block are determined and evaluated and which are used to reflect the LFC block behaviour in normal operation;
‘frequency restoration power interchange’ means the power which is interchanged between LFC areas within the cross-border FRR activation process;
‘frequency setpoint’ means the frequency target value used in the FRP, defined as the sum of the nominal system frequency and an offset value needed to reduce an electrical time deviation;
‘FRR availability requirements’ means a set of requirements defined by the TSOs of a LFC block regarding the availability of FRR;
‘FRR dimensioning rules’ means the specifications of the FRR dimensioning process of a LFC block;
‘imbalance netting process’ means a process agreed between TSOs that allows avoiding the simultaneous activation of FRR in opposite directions, taking into account the respective FRCEs as well as the activated FRR and by correcting the input of the involved FRPs accordingly;
‘imbalance netting power interchange’ means the power which is interchanged between LFC areas within the imbalance netting process;
‘initial FCR obligation’ means the amount of FCR allocated to a TSO on the basis of a sharing key;
‘instantaneous frequency data’ means a set of data measurements of the overall system frequency for the synchronous area with a measurement period equal to or shorter than one second used for system frequency quality evaluation purposes;
‘instantaneous frequency deviation’ means a set of data measurements of the overall system frequency deviations for the synchronous area with a measurement period equal to or shorter than one second used for system frequency quality evaluation purposes;
‘instantaneous FRCE data’ means a set of data of the FRCE of a LFC block with a measurement period equal to or shorter than 10 seconds used for system frequency quality evaluation purposes;
‘level 1 FRCE range’ means the first range used for system frequency quality evaluation purposes on LFC block level within which the FRCE should be kept for a specified percentage of the time;
‘level 2 FRCE range’ means the second range used for system frequency quality evaluation purposes on LFC block level within which the FRCE should be kept for a specified percentage of the time;
‘LFC block operational agreement’ means a multi-party agreement between all TSOs of a LFC block if the LFC block is operated by more than one TSO and means a LFC block operational methodology to be adopted unilaterally by the relevant TSO if the LFC block is operated by only one TSO;
‘replacement power interchange’ means the power which is interchanged between LFC areas within the cross-border RR activation process;
‘LFC block imbalances’ means the sum of the FRCE, FRR activation and RR activation within the LFC block and the imbalance netting power interchange, the frequency restoration power interchange and the replacement power interchange of this LFC block with other LFC blocks;
‘LFC block monitor’ means a TSO responsible for collecting the frequency quality evaluation criteria data and applying the frequency quality evaluation criteria for the LFC block;
‘load-frequency control structure’ means the basic structure considering all relevant aspects of load-frequency control in particular concerning respective responsibilities and obligations as well as types and purposes of active power reserves;
‘process responsibility structure’ means the structure to determine responsibilities and obligations with respect to active power reserves based on the control structure of the synchronous area;
‘process activation structure’ means the structure to categorise the processes concerning the different types of active power reserves in terms of purpose and activation;
‘manual FRR full activation time’ means the time period between the setpoint change and the corresponding activation or deactivation of manual FRR;
‘maximum instantaneous frequency deviation’ means the maximum expected absolute value of an instantaneous frequency deviation after the occurrence of an imbalance equal to or smaller than the reference incident, beyond which emergency measures are activated;
‘monitoring area’ means a part of the synchronous area or the entire synchronous area, physically demarcated by points of measurement at interconnectors to other monitoring areas, operated by one or more TSOs fulfilling the obligations of a monitoring area;
‘prequalification’ means the process to verify the compliance of a reserve providing unit or a reserve providing group with the requirements set by the TSO;
‘ramping period’ means a period of time defined by a fixed starting point and a length of time during which the input and/or output of active power will be increased or decreased;
‘reserve instructing TSO’ means the TSO responsible for the instruction of the reserve providing unit or the reserve providing group to activate FRR and/or RR;
‘reserve connecting DSO’ means the DSO responsible for the distribution network to which a reserve providing unit or reserve providing group, providing reserves to a TSO, is connected;
‘reserve connecting TSO’ means the TSO responsible for the monitoring area to which a reserve providing unit or reserve providing group is connected;
‘reserve receiving TSO’ means the TSO involved in an exchange with a reserve connecting TSO and/or a reserve providing unit or a reserve providing group connected to another monitoring or LFC area;
‘reserve replacement process’ or ‘RRP’ means a process to restore the activated FRR and, additionally for GB and IE/NI, to restore the activated FCR;
‘RR availability requirements’ means a set of requirements defined by the TSOs of a LFC block regarding the availability of RR;
‘RR dimensioning rules’ means the specifications of the RR dimensioning process of a LFC block;
‘standard frequency range’ means a defined symmetrical interval around the nominal frequency within which the system frequency of a synchronous area is supposed to be operated;
‘standard frequency deviation’ means the absolute value of the frequency deviation that limits the standard frequency range;
‘steady state frequency deviation’ means the absolute value of frequency deviation after occurrence of an imbalance, once the system frequency has been stabilised;
‘synchronous area monitor’ means a TSO responsible for collecting the frequency quality evaluation criteria data and applying the frequency quality evaluation criteria for the synchronous area;
‘time control process’ means a process for time control, where time control is a control action carried out to return the electrical time deviation between synchronous time and UTC time to zero.
1.This Regulation aims at:
(a)determining common operational security requirements and principles;
(b)determining common interconnected system operational planning principles;
(c)determining common load-frequency control processes and control structures;
(d)ensuring the conditions for maintaining operational security throughout the Union;
(e)ensuring the conditions for maintaining a frequency quality level of all synchronous areas throughout the Union;
(f)promoting the coordination of system operation and operational planning;
(g)ensuring and enhancing the transparency and reliability of information on transmission system operation;
(h)contributing to the efficient operation and development of the electricity transmission system and electricity sector in the Union.
2.When applying this Regulation, Member States, competent authorities, and system operators shall:
(a)apply the principles of proportionality and non-discrimination;
(b)ensure transparency;
(c)apply the principle of optimisation between the highest overall efficiency and lowest total costs for all parties involved;
(d)ensure TSOs make use of market-based mechanisms as far as possible, to ensure network security and stability;
(e)respect the responsibility assigned to the relevant TSO in order to ensure system security, including as required by national legislation;
(f)consult with relevant DSOs and take account of potential impacts on their system; and
(g)take into consideration agreed European standards and technical specifications.
1.TSOs shall develop the terms and conditions or methodologies required by this Regulation and submit them for approval to the competent regulatory authorities in accordance with Article 6(2) and (3) or for approval to the entity designated by the Member State in accordance with Article 6(4) within the respective deadlines set out in this Regulation.
2.Where a proposal for terms and conditions or methodologies pursuant to this Regulation needs to be developed and agreed by more than one TSO, the participating TSOs shall closely cooperate. TSOs, with the assistance of ENTSO for Electricity, shall regularly inform the regulatory authorities and the Agency about the progress of developing those terms and conditions or methodologies.
3.Where no consensus is reached among TSOs deciding on proposals for terms and conditions or methodologies in accordance with Article 6(2), they shall decide by qualified majority. The qualified majority for proposals in accordance with Article 6(2) shall require a majority of:
(a)TSOs representing at least 55 % of the Member States; and
(b)TSOs representing Member States comprising at least 65 % of the population of the Union.
4.A blocking minority for decisions in accordance with Article 6(2) must include TSOs representing at least four Member States, failing of which the qualified majority shall be deemed attained.
5.Where the regions concerned are composed of more than five Member States and no consensus is reached among TSOs deciding on proposals for terms and conditions or methodologies in accordance with Article 6(3) they shall decide by qualified majority. A qualified majority for proposals in accordance with Article 6(3) shall require a majority of:
(a)TSOs representing at least 72 % of the Member States concerned; and
(b)TSOs representing Member States comprising at least 65 % of the population of the concerned region.
6.A blocking minority for decisions in accordance with Article 6(3) must include at least a minimum number of TSOs representing more than 35 % of the population of the participating Member States, plus TSOs representing at least one additional Member State concerned, failing of which the qualified majority shall be deemed attained.
7.TSOs deciding on proposals for terms and conditions or methodologies in accordance with Article 6(3) in relation to regions composed of five Member States or less shall decide on the basis of a consensus.
8.For TSO decisions under paragraphs 3 and 4, one vote shall be attributed per Member State. If there is more than one TSO in the territory of a Member State, the Member State shall allocate the voting powers among the TSOs.
9.Where TSOs fail to submit a proposal for terms and conditions or methodologies to the regulatory authorities in accordance with Article 6(2) and (3) or to the entities designated by the Member States in accordance with Article 6(4) within the deadlines defined in this Regulation, they shall provide the competent regulatory authorities and the Agency with the relevant drafts of the terms and conditions or methodologies, and explain why an agreement has not been reached. The Agency shall inform the Commission and shall, in cooperation with the competent regulatory authorities, at the Commission's request, investigate the reasons for the failure and inform the Commission thereof. The Commission shall take the appropriate steps to make possible the adoption of the required terms and conditions or methodologies within 4 months from the receipt of the Agency's information.
1.Each regulatory authority shall approve the terms and conditions or methodologies developed by TSOs under paragraphs 2 and 3. The entity designated by the Member State shall approve the terms and conditions or methodologies developed by TSOs under paragraph 4. The designated entity shall be the regulatory authority unless otherwise provided by the Member State.
2.The proposals for the following terms and conditions or methodologies shall be subject to approval by all regulatory authorities of the Union, on which a Member State may provide an opinion to the concerned regulatory authority:
(a)key organizational requirements, roles and responsibilities in relation to data exchange related to operational security in accordance with Article 40(6);
(b)methodology for building the common grid models in accordance with Article 67(1) and Article 70;
(c)methodology for coordinating operational security analysis in accordance with Article 75.
3.The proposals for the following terms and conditions or methodologies shall be subject to approval by all regulatory authorities of the concerned region, on which a Member State may provide an opinion to the concerned regulatory authority:
(a)methodology for each synchronous area for the definition of minimum inertia in accordance with Article 39(3)(b);
(b)common provisions for each capacity calculation region for regional operational security coordination in accordance with Article 76;
(c)methodology, at least per synchronous area, for assessing the relevance of assets for outage coordination in accordance with Article 84;
(d)methodologies, conditions and values included in the synchronous area operational agreements in Article 118 concerning:
the frequency quality defining parameters and the frequency quality target parameter in accordance with Article 127;
the dimensioning rules for FCR in accordance with Article 153;
the additional properties of the FCR in accordance with Article 154(2);
for the GB and IE/NI synchronous areas, the measures to ensure the recovery of energy reservoirs in accordance with Article 156(6)(b);
for the CE and Nordic synchronous areas, the minimum activation period to be ensured by FCR providers in accordance with Article 156(10);
for the CE and Nordic synchronous areas, the assumptions and methodology for a cost-benefit analysis in accordance with Article 156(11);
for synchronous areas other than CE and if applicable, the limits for the exchange of FCR between TSOs in accordance with Article 163(2);
for the GB and IE/NI synchronous areas, the methodology to determine the minimum provision of reserve capacity on FCR between synchronous areas, defined in accordance with Article 174(2)(b);
limits on the amount of exchange of FRR between synchronous areas defined in accordance with Article 176(1) and limits on the amount of sharing of FRR between synchronous areas defined in accordance with Article 177(1);
limits on the amount of exchange of RR between synchronous areas defined in accordance with Article 178(1) and limits on the amount of sharing of RR between synchronous areas defined in accordance with Article 179(1);
(e)methodologies and conditions included in the LFC block operational agreements in Article 119, concerning:
ramping restrictions for active power output in accordance with Article 137(3) and (4);
coordination actions aiming to reduce FRCE as defined in Article 152(14);
measures to reduce FRCE by requiring changes in the active power production or consumption of power generating modules and demand units in accordance with Article 152(16);
the FRR dimensioning rules in accordance with Article 157(1);
(f)mitigation measures per synchronous area or LFC block in accordance with Article 138;
(g)common proposal per synchronous area for the determination of LFC blocks in accordance with Article 141(2).
4.Unless determined otherwise by the Member State, the following terms and conditions or methodologies shall be subject to individual approval by the entity designated in accordance with paragraph 1 by the Member State:
(a)for the GB and IE/NI synchronous areas, the proposal of each TSO specifying the level of demand loss at which the transmission system shall be in the blackout state;
(b)scope of data exchange with DSOs and significant grid users in accordance with Article 40(5);
(c)additional requirements for FCR providing groups in accordance with Article 154(3);
(d)exclusion of FCR providing groups from the provision of FCR in accordance with Article 154(4);
(e)for the CE and Nordic synchronous areas, the proposal concerning the interim minimum activation period to be ensured by FCR providers as proposed by the TSO in accordance with Article 156(9);
(f)FRR technical requirements defined by the TSO in accordance with Article 158(3);
(g)rejection of FRR providing groups from the provision of FRR in accordance with Article 159(7);
(h)technical requirements for the connection of RR providing units and RR providing groups defined by the TSO in accordance with Article 161(3); and
(i)rejection of RR providing groups from the provision of RR in accordance with Article 162(6).
5.Where an individual relevant system operator or TSO is required or permitted under this Regulation to specify or agree on requirements that are not subject to paragraph 4, Member States may require prior approval by the competent regulatory authority of these requirements.
6.The proposal for terms and conditions or methodologies shall include a proposed timescale for their implementation and a description of their expected impact on the objectives of this Regulation. Proposals on terms and conditions or methodologies subject to the approval by several or all regulatory authorities shall be submitted to the Agency at the same time that they are submitted to regulatory authorities. Upon request by the competent regulatory authorities, the Agency shall issue an opinion within 3 months on the proposals for terms and conditions or methodologies.
7.Where the approval of the terms and conditions or methodologies requires a decision by more than one regulatory authority, the competent regulatory authorities shall consult and closely cooperate and coordinate with each other in order to reach an agreement. Where the Agency issues an opinion, the competent regulatory authorities shall take that opinion into account. Regulatory authorities shall take decisions concerning the submitted terms and conditions or methodologies in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3), within 6 months following the receipt of the terms and conditions or methodologies by the regulatory authority or, where applicable, by the last regulatory authority concerned.
8.Where the regulatory authorities have not been able to reach an agreement within the period referred to in paragraph 7 or upon their joint request, the Agency shall adopt a decision concerning the submitted proposals for terms and conditions or methodologies within 6 months, in accordance with Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 713/2009.
9.Where the approval of the terms and conditions or methodologies requires a decision by a single designated entity in accordance with paragraph 4, the designated entity shall reach a decision within 6 months following the receipt of the terms and conditions or methodologies.
10.Any party can complain against a relevant system operator or TSO in relation to that relevant system operator's or TSO's obligations or decisions under this Regulation and may refer the complaint to the regulatory authority which, acting as dispute settlement authority, shall issue a decision within 2 months after receipt of the complaint. That period may be extended by a further 2 months where additional information is sought by the regulatory authority. That extended period may be further extended with the agreement of the complainant. The regulatory authority's decision shall be binding unless and until overruled on appeal.
1.Where one or several regulatory authorities require an amendment in order to approve the terms and conditions or methodologies submitted in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 6, the relevant TSOs shall submit a proposal for amended terms and conditions or methodologies for approval within 2 months following the requirement from the regulatory authorities. The competent regulatory authorities shall decide on the amended terms and conditions or methodologies within 2 months following their submission.
2.Where a designated entity requires an amendment in order to approve the terms and conditions or methodologies submitted in accordance with Article 6(4), the relevant TSO shall submit a proposal for amended terms and conditions or methodologies for approval within 2 months following the requirement from the designated entity. The designated entity shall decide on the amended terms and conditions or methodologies within 2 months following their submission.
3.Where the competent regulatory authorities have not been able to reach an agreement on terms and conditions or methodologies pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 6 within the two-month deadline, or upon their joint request, the Agency shall adopt a decision concerning the amended terms and conditions or methodologies within 6 months, in accordance with Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 713/2009. If the relevant TSOs fail to submit a proposal for amended terms and conditions or methodologies, the procedure provided for in Article 5(7) shall apply.
4.TSOs responsible for developing a proposal for terms and conditions or methodologies or regulatory authorities or designated entities responsible for their adoption in accordance with paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Article 6 may request amendments of those terms and conditions or methodologies. Proposals for amendment to the terms and conditions or methodologies shall be submitted to consultation if applicable in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 11 and approved in accordance with the procedure set out in Articles 5 and 6.
1.TSOs responsible for specifying the terms and conditions or methodologies in accordance with this Regulation shall publish them on the internet following approval by the competent regulatory authorities or, where no such approval is required, following their specification, except where such information is considered confidential in accordance with Article 12.
2.The publication shall also concern:
(a)enhancements of network operation tools in accordance with Article 55(1)(e);
(b)FRCE target parameters in accordance with Article 128;
(c)ramping restrictions on synchronous area level in accordance with Article 137(1);
(d)ramping restrictions on LFC block level in accordance with Article 137(3);
(e)measures taken in the alert state due to there being insufficient active power reserves in accordance with Article 152(11); and
(f)request of the reserve connecting TSO to an FCR provider to make the information available in real time in accordance with Article 154(11).
1.The costs borne by system operators subject to network tariff regulation and stemming from the obligations laid down in this Regulation shall be assessed by the relevant regulatory authorities. Costs assessed as reasonable, efficient and proportionate shall be recovered through network tariffs or other appropriate mechanisms.
2.If requested by the relevant regulatory authorities, system operators referred to in paragraph 1 shall, within 3 months of the request, provide the information necessary to facilitate assessment of the costs incurred.
The Agency, in close cooperation with ENTSO for Electricity, shall organise stakeholder involvement regarding secure system operation and other aspects of the implementation of this Regulation. Such involvement shall include regular meetings with stakeholders to identify problems and propose improvements related to the secure system operation.
1.TSOs responsible for submitting proposals for terms and conditions or methodologies or their amendments in accordance with this Regulation shall consult stakeholders, including the relevant authorities of each Member State, on the draft proposals for terms and conditions or methodologies listed in Article 6(2) and (3). The consultation shall last for a period of not less than 1 month.
2.The proposals for terms and conditions or methodologies submitted by the TSOs at Union level shall be published and submitted to public consultation at Union level. Proposals submitted by the TSOs at regional level shall be submitted to public consultation at least at regional level. Parties submitting proposals at bilateral or at multilateral level shall carry out a public consultation at least in the Member States concerned.
3.The TSOs responsible for developing the proposal for terms and conditions or methodologies shall duly take into account the views of stakeholders resulting from the consultations prior to its submission for regulatory approval. In all cases, a sound justification for including or not including the views resulting from the consultation shall be provided together with the submission of the proposal and published in a timely manner before, or simultaneously with the publication of the proposal for terms and conditions or methodologies.
1.Any confidential information received, exchanged or transmitted pursuant to this Regulation shall be subject to the conditions of professional secrecy laid down in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4.
2.The obligation of professional secrecy shall apply to any persons subject to the provisions of this Regulation.
3.Confidential information received by the persons or regulatory authorities referred to in paragraph 2 in the course of their duties may not be divulged to any other person or authority, without prejudice to cases covered by national law, the other provisions of this Regulation or other relevant Union legislation.
4.Without prejudice to cases covered by national or Union legislation, regulatory authorities, bodies or persons who receive confidential information pursuant to this Regulation may use it only for the purpose of carrying out their duties under this Regulation.
Where a synchronous area encompasses both union and third country TSOs, within 18 months after entry into force of this Regulation, all Union TSOs in that synchronous area shall endeavour to conclude with the third country TSOs not bound by this Regulation an agreement setting the basis for their cooperation concerning secure system operation and setting out arrangements for the compliance of the third country TSOs with the obligations set in this Regulation.
1.ENTSO for Electricity shall monitor the implementation of this Regulation in accordance with Article 8(8) of Regulation (EC) No 714/2009. Monitoring shall cover at least the following matters:
(a)operational security indicators in accordance with Article 15;
(b)load-frequency control in accordance with Article 16;
(c)regional coordination assessment in accordance with Article 17;
(d)identification of any divergences in the national implementation of this Regulation for the terms and conditions or methodologies listed in Article 6(3);
(e)identification of any additional improvements of tools and services in accordance with subparagraphs (a) and (b) of Article 55, beyond the improvements identified by the TSOs in accordance with Article 55(e);
(f)identification of any necessary improvements in the annual report on incidents classification scale in accordance with Article 15, which are necessary in order to support sustainable and long-term operational security; and
(g)identification of any difficulties concerning cooperation on secure system operation with third country TSOs.
2.The Agency, in cooperation with ENTSO for Electricity, shall produce within 12 months from the entry into force of this Regulation a list of the relevant information to be communicated by ENTSO for Electricity to the Agency in accordance with Articles 8(9) and 9(1) of Regulation (EC) No 714/2009. The list of relevant information may be subject to updates. ENTSO for Electricity shall maintain a comprehensive, standardised format, digital data archive of the information required by the Agency.
3.Relevant TSOs shall submit to ENTSO for Electricity the information required to perform the tasks referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2.
4.Based on a request of the regulatory authority, DSOs shall provide TSOs with the information under paragraph 2 unless that information is already available to the regulatory authorities, TSOs, the Agency or ENTSO for Electricity in relation to their respective implementation monitoring tasks, with the objective of avoiding duplication of information.
1.By 30 September, ENTSO for Electricity shall publish an annual report based on the incidents classification scale adopted in accordance with Article 8(3)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 714/2009. The Agency may provide its opinion on the format and contents of that annual report, including the geographical scope of the incidents reported, the electrical interdependencies between the TSOs' control areas and any relevant historical information.
2.The TSOs of each Member State shall provide ENTSO for Electricity, by 1 March, with the necessary data and information for the preparation of the annual reports based on the incident classification scale referred to in paragraph 1. The data provided by the TSOs shall cover the preceding year.
3.The annual reports referred to in paragraph 1 shall contain at least the following operational security indicators relevant to operational security:
(a)number of tripped transmission system elements per year per TSO;
(b)number of tripped power generation facilities per year per TSO;
(c)energy not supplied per year due to unscheduled disconnection of demand facilities per TSO;
(d)time duration and number of instances of being in the alert and emergency states per TSO;
(e)time duration and number of events within which there was a lack of reserves identified per TSO;
(f)time duration and number of voltage deviations exceeding the ranges from Tables 1 and 2 of Annex II per TSO;
(g)number of minutes outside the standard frequency range and number of minutes outside the 50 % of maximum steady state frequency deviation per synchronous area;
(h)number of system-split separations or local blackout states; and
(i)number of blackouts involving two or more TSOs.
4.The annual report referred to in paragraph 1 shall contain the following operational security indicators relevant to operational planning:
(a)number of events in which an incident contained in the contingency list led to a degradation of the system operation state;
(b)number of the events referred to in point (a) in which a degradation of system operation conditions occurred as a result of unexpected discrepancies from load or generation forecasts;
(c)number of events in which there was a degradation in system operation conditions due to an exceptional contingency;
(d)number of the events referred to in point (c) in which a degradation of system operation conditions occurred as a result of unexpected discrepancies from load or generation forecasts; and
(e)number of events leading to a degradation in system operation conditions due to lack of active power reserves.
5.The annual reports shall contain explanations of the reasons for incidents at the operational security ranking scales 2 and 3 as per the incidents classification scale adopted by ENTSO for Electricity. Those explanations shall be based on an investigation of the incidents by TSOs which process shall be set out in the incidents classification scale. TSOs shall inform the respective regulatory authorities about an investigation in due time before it is launched. Regulatory authorities and the Agency may be involved in the investigation upon their request.
1.By 30 September, ENTSO for Electricity shall publish an annual report on load-frequency control based on the information provided by the TSOs in accordance with paragraph 2. The annual report on load-frequency control shall include the information listed in paragraph 2 for each Member State.
2.Starting from 14 September 2018, the TSOs of each Member State shall notify to ENTSO for Electricity, by 1 March every year, the following information for the previous year:
(a)the identification of the LFC blocks, LFC areas and monitoring areas in the Member State;
(b)the identification of LFC blocks that are not in the Member State and that contain LFC areas and monitoring areas that are in the Member State;
(c)the identification of the synchronous areas each Member State belongs to;
(d)the data related to the frequency quality evaluation criteria for each synchronous area and each LFC block in subparagraphs (a), (b) and (c) covering each month of at least 2 previous calendar years;
(e)the FCR obligation and the initial FCR obligation of each TSO operating within the Member State covering each month of at least 2 previous calendar years; and
(f)a description and date of implementation of any mitigation measures and ramping requirements to alleviate deterministic frequency deviations taken in the previous calendar year in accordance with Articles 137 and 138, in which TSOs of the Member State were involved.
3.The data provided by the TSOs shall cover the preceding year. The information concerning synchronous areas, LFC blocks, LFC areas and monitoring areas in subparagraphs (a), (b) and (c) shall be reported once. Where these areas change, this information shall be reported by 1 March of the following year.
4.Where appropriate, all TSOs of a synchronous area or LFC block shall cooperate in collecting the data listed in paragraph 2.
1.By 30 September, ENTSO for Electricity shall publish an annual report on regional coordination assessment based on the annual reports on regional coordination assessment provided by the regional security coordinators in accordance with paragraph 2, assess any interoperability issues and propose changes aiming at improving effectiveness and efficiency in the system operation coordination.
2.By 1 March, each regional security coordinator shall prepare an annual report and submit it to ENTSO for Electricity providing the following information for the tasks it performs:
(a)the number of events, average duration and reasons for the failure to fulfil its functions;
(b)the statistics regarding constraints, including their duration, location and number of occurrences together with the associated remedial actions activated and their cost in case they have been incurred;
(c)the number of instances where TSOs refuse to implement the remedial actions recommended by the regional security coordinator and the reasons thereof;
(d)the number of outage incompatibilities detected in accordance with Article 80; and
(e)a description of the cases where the lack of regional adequacy has been assessed and a description of mitigation actions set in place.
3.The data provided to ENTSO for Electricity by the regional security coordinators shall cover the preceding year.
Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/631 of 14 April 2016 establishing a network code on requirements for grid connection of generators (OJ L 112, 27.4.2016, p. 1).
Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1388 of 17 August 2016 establishing a Network Code on Demand Connection (OJ L 223, 18.8.2016, p. 10).
Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1447 of 26 August 2016 establishing a network code on requirements for grid connection of high voltage direct current systems and direct current-connected power park modules (OJ L 241, 8.9.2016, p. 1).
Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1222 of 24 July 2015 establishing a guideline on capacity allocation and congestion management (OJ L 197, 25.7.2015, p. 24).
Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1719 of 26 September 2016 establishing a guideline on forward capacity allocation (OJ L 259, 27.9.2016, p. 42).
Commission Regulation (EU) No 543/2013 of 14 June 2013 on submission and publication of data in electricity markets and amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 163, 15.6.2013, p. 1).
Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 2003/54/EC (OJ L 211, 14.8.2009, p. 55).