Network Code on Electricity Balancing (EB)

Electricity Balancing is one of the key roles of Transmission System Operators where they act to ensure that generation equals demand in real time. This is vital for ensuring security of supply and has an important bearing on costs to customers. The potential for balancing resources to be effectively shared between countries can enhance security of supply and reduce cost, hence there is a strong rationale for developing cross border balancing markets. The network code on Electricity Balancing will ensure that the correct framework will be put in place for this to happen.

Latest Status Update (5 December 2013)

Since the 3rd public stakeholder workshop on 23 October ENTSO-E has prepared a final draft version of the Network Code on Electricity Balancing taking into account the latest stakeholder comments. This version is currently going through the internal approval processes in ENTSO-E with the aim of submitting it along with the Supporting Document to ACER by 1 January 2014.

The final Network Code on Electricity Balancing and the accompanying Supporting Document will be publicly available through the website when submitted to ACER.

An overview of developments for all network codes in the past month is available.

What Happens Next?

ENTSO-E will submit the NC EB and Supporting Document to ACER by 1 January 2014. Following submission of the code ACER has three months to assess the code and issue an opinion. If ACER recommends the code for adoption to the European Commission, the code will then progress through the Comitology process, after which it can become law. ENTSO-E is ready to assist both ACER and the European Commission in any way throughout this process in order to contribute to a smooth adoption.

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Public Consultation on draft Network Code on Electricity Balancing

From 16 June to 16 August 2013, ENTSO-E held a public consultation on the draft Network Code on Electricity Balancing (NC EB). By the end of the nine-week consultation period, more than 40 stakeholders had submitted a total of 2178 individual comments via the web-based consultation tool.

Stakeholder Engagement

ENTSO-E’s stakeholder engagement comprises of Stakeholder Advisory Group Meetings and Public Stakeholder Workshops, as well as ad-hoc meetings and exchange of views with any interested party as appropriate. The Electricity Balancing Stakeholder Advisory Group (EBSAG) members represent all relevant parts of the industry as well as consumers, so as to enable efficient and effective discussion on the process and content of the Network Code on Electricity Balancing. The EBSAG member organisation list may be viewed here and the Terms of Reference; here.

ENTSO-E has hosted a total of four EBSAG meetings and three public stakeholder workshops on the NC EB. The latest public workshop was held in Brussels on 23 October to present and discuss the feedback received during the public consultation. This also served as an opportunity to discuss the changes made to the code in response to stakeholder feedback.

All material, including minutes and presentations from meetings are made public.

Stakeholder Advisory Group Meetings

Public Stakeholder Workshops

Related Documents and Links

Contact

Should you have any further questions please contact Peter Campbell.