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Only STSP products by 1 October 2016

Planned Bal. Services by 1 October 2016

a) Slovakia operates its interim measure product on its balancing platform and has additional balancing services in place. Germany and Poland

have additional IM products under interim measures on a balancing platform in place. In UK-GB additional new Emergency products listed

in Merit order and were implemented by 1 October 2016.

b) Portugal introduced temporary only balancing services. Greece, Ireland, Romania and Northern Ireland reported that balancing services are

operated under interim measures. Sweden stated that they are operating a “weekly product” under interim measures.

c) Bulgaria plans to introduce balancing services under interim measures during 2017.

STSP and Bal. Services by 1 October 2016

Only Bal. Services by 1 October 2016

Map 2: 

STSP and balancing services in own balancing zone by 1 October 2016

that the TSO's short term gas needs could be

satisfied at any time, balancing services have

been implemented as a temporary solution to be

terminated once Mibgas commences operation

in Portugal. The balancing services are procured

via a short term auction approved by the Portu-

guese NRA. (More details with regards to bal-

ancing services can be found in

Annex II, table

2.1

)

Croatia which is currently using balancing ser-

vices in accordance with art. 8.4 BAL NC, plans

to introduce a balancing service via a public ten-

der procedure by 1 April 2017. Within its regula-

tory framework, Italy also foresees the possibility

of introducing balancing services. Spain ulti-

mately decided not to use balancing services,

even though the regulatory framework provides

this possibility.

Balancing Services can only be used for balanc-

ing purposes under certain circumstances. Of

those 15 countries, six respondents including

Estonia (CZ, EL, RO, SK and UK-NI) stated the

absence of liquidity in STSP as the reason for

utilising balancing services while six ones (BG,

HR, LT, PL, SI, and UK-NI) indicated that STSP

was not providing the response required to keep

the system within its operational limits. Three

countries (DE, IE and PT) indicated other rea-

sons. (Further details can be found in

Annex II, table 2.2 )

An annual review of the usage of balancing

services is obligatory according to the BAL NC.

Ten of 15 countries (DE, EE*, HR, IE, LT, PL, RO,

SK, SI, UK-NI) confirmed the obligatory annual

review of the implemented balancing services.

Other two countries (CZ and PT) have not yet

passed the annual period. Greece stated that

they are not yet necessary since no STSP are

yet in place. Bulgaria indicated a review planned

for Q3/2017. (Further details can be found in

Annex II, table 2.2 )

a) Slovakia operates its interim

measure product on its balancing

platform and has additional bal-

ancing services in place. Germany

and Poland have additional IM

products under interim measures

on a balancing platform in place.

In UK-GB additional new Emergen-

cy products listed in Merit order

and were implemented by 1 Octo-

ber 2016.

b) Portugal introduced temporary only

balancing services. Greece, Ire-

land, Romania and Northern Ire-

land reported that balancing ser-

vices are operated under interim

measures. Sweden stated that

they are operating a “weekly prod-

uct” under interim measures.

c) Bulgaria plans to introduce bal-

ancing services under interim

measures during 2017.

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