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Of the other eight respondents (BG, EL, IE
7)
, RO,
SE, SK and UK-NI) including Estonia the latter
confirmed that since a trading platform has not
yet been developed, applied the interim meas-
ures instead.
Two countries (SE and SK) confirmed temporari-
ly using a balancing platform while five countries
(BG, IE, EL, RO and UK-NI) reported temporary
7) In Ireland a trading platform is expected to go live in 2017.
8) In Poland VTP has been implemented in the L-gas and TGPS balancing zone.
9) In Romania it was not possible to purchase natural gas to be delivered on short-term basis from the domestic gas exchange. Therefore the Merit
Order has changed by prioritising this balancing type as compared to the balancing services supplied by the Storage Operator.
10) Italy reported that the merit order and standard products are in line with BAL NC by 01 October 2016.
11) In Great Britain new emergency products are also listed in the merit order implemented by 1 October 2016
using (IE, EL, RO and UK-NI) or planning (BG) an
alternative to the balancing platform by 1 October
2016. Ireland is expected to go live with their
trading platform in 2017. Romania is currently in
discussion with OPCOM-gas exchange on using
their platform for balancing purposes. More infor-
mation on those interim measures can be found
in Chapter 3.9.
3.1.2 MERIT ORDER, STSP AND BALANCING SERVICES
BAL NC describes the order of products to be
used by TSO for balancing actions as the so-
called “Merit Order”. When procuring balancing
actions, TSOs must first use the four STSPs (title
products, locational products, temporal prod-
ucts and/or temporal locational products) traded
on a trading platform for delivery on a within-day
or day-ahead basis for seven days a week.
Within the STSP order the TSO must prioritise
the use of title products where and to which
extent appropriate over any other available STSP
and then using, if any, other balancing products
or contracts (‘balancing services’).
16 of 25 countries (AT, BE/LU, CZ, DE, DK, ES,
FR, HR, HU, IT, LT, NL, PL
8)
, SK and SI) report-
ed the implementation of a merit order accord-
ing to Art. 9 of BAL NC, while six countries
including Estonia (EL, PT, SE, RO
9)
and UK-NI)
implemented a merit order with balancing
services only – mainly under interim measures.
UK-GB stated that the GB TSO is required to es-
tablish the “System Management Principles
Statement” (SMPS) under its Licence to operate
and its purpose is to describe the basis on which
it will determine when a system balancing action
is needed and the appropriate balancing tool to
utilise while Bulgaria indicated its merit order by
1 January 2017.
Eight countries (BE, CZ, DE, FR, IT
10)
, PL, RO
and UK-GB
11)
) reported having updated merit
order compared to October 2015.
Short Term Standardised Products (STSPs) offered in own balancing zone
by 1 October 2016
Type of STSP product
Country where STSP is offered
on trading platform or balancing
platform
Country where STSP is planned to
be offered on trading platform by
1 October 2016
Title products
AT, BE/LU, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FR, HU,
IT, LT, NL, PL
a)
, SI, SK, UK-GB (16)
HR (1)
Locational products
DE, ES, FR
b)
, HR, HU, IT, UK-GB (7)
Temporal products
DE, HU, NL, (3)
Temporal locational products
DE (1)
–
a) In Poland title STSP products are implemented in the H-gas and TGPS balancing zone.
b) In France GRTgaz is still experimenting locational products.
Table 1:
Short Term Standardised Products (STSPs) offered in own balancing zone by 1 October 2016
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