ENTSOG BAL NC Monitoring Report 2016

No current or planned balancing platform foreseen

Planned balancing platform

* The above map should be viewed in conjunction with Map 1 in section 3.1.1. The existence of a trading platform ful lling all conditions in Article 10

of BAL NC makes it principally unnecessary to establish a dedicated balancing platform. All countries with existing or planned balancing platforms do not

have a trading platform, except for Germany and Poland.

Existing balancing platform

Map 11: 

Interim measures – Overview of current or planned usage of balancing platform

Balancing platform as interim measure (Art. 47 of BAL NC)

According to BAL NC provisions, a balancing

platform can be established for the purpose of

TSOs balancing in case the short term wholesale

gas market has or is anticipated to have insuffi-

cient liquidity or where temporal and locational

products required cannot reasonably be pro-

cured on this market.

In four countries (DE, PL, SK, SE) a balancing

platform is already in use. In Poland, the balanc-

ing platform operates in all three balancing

zones (H-gas, L-gas, TGPS) using interim bal-

ancing products.

Compared to the previous report, Greece fore-

sees the implementation of a balancing platform

in Q3-2017 while Romania will no longer contin-

ue to implement a balancing platform.

Map 11 below shows an overview of the current

or planned usage of balancing platforms in

Europe.

a) The map should be viewed in

conjunction with

Map 1 in section 3.1.1 .

The existence of a trading

platform fulfilling all conditions in

Article 10 of BAL NC makes it prin-

cipally unnecessary to establish a

dedicated balancing platform. All

countries with existing or planned

balancing platforms do not have a

trading platform, except for

Germany and Poland.

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