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Germany (NCG)
2) On 5 days in GY2015/2016 STSP products have been conducted on the
NCG balancing platform.
The BAL.1 indicator of ca. 82% on a yearly basis
illustrates that overall the NCG market area has been
balanced mainly via the usage of STSPs2), but as well
as via balancing services in GY 2015/2016. (see
figure 4)
The BAL.1 indicator on a daily basis shows that the
yearly BAL.1 value of 82% mainly arisen from the
time period until May 2016 when balancing services
have been conducted for balancing purposes in the
L-gas network of the Market Area. The fluctuation of
BAL.1 during this period has been quite high. On two
days in GY 2015/2016 balancing was performed by
NCG only via balancing services. On 1 May 2016, the
trading platform operator PEGAS introduced tempo-
ral locational STSP in coordination with NCG, which
allow NCG to fulfil the balancing demand in the L-gas
network on the trading platform. As a consequence
no balancing services were used at all anymore.
BAL.1NCG (yearly)
%
STSP
Balancing Services
81.58
18.42
Figure 4:Yearly BAL.1 indicator, NCG
Figure 5: Daily BAL.1 NCG: Usage of STSPs as % of total balancing volume in GY 2015/2016
BAL.1 NCG (daily)
0
120
%
100
60
80
40
20
01/10/2015 01/11/2015 01/12/2015 01/01/2016 01/02/2016 01/03/2016 01/04/2016 01/05/2016 01/06/2016 01/07/2016 01/08/2016 01/09/2016
From beginning of May 2016, no balancing services were in use anymore
On two days balancing has been performed by NCG via balancing services only
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