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No alternative to balancing platform foreseen
Planned implementation
a)
a) Bulgaria plans the implementation by during 2017.
Alternative to a balancing platform in place
Alternative to a balancing platform as interim measure (Art. 48 of BAL NC)
If a trading platform was not implemented since
short term wholesale gas market has or is antic-
ipated to have insufficient liquidity, BAL NC of-
fers TSOs with the flexibility of implementing a
balancing platform. Where a balancing platform
cannot increase the liquidity of the short term
wholesale gas market as a result of insufficient
interconnection capacity between balancing
zones, an alternative to a balancing platform
may be used in order to enable TSO to under-
take efficient balancing actions.
As Map 12 shows, four countries (EL, IE, RO
and UK-NI) reported the implementation of bal-
ancing services as an alternative to a balancing
platform. Compared to the previous report Ro-
mania stated that an alternative to a balancing
platform is in place by 1 October 2016 while in
Bulgaria, the implementation of balancing ser-
vices as alternative to the balancing platform is
planned for 1 January 2017.
Map 12:
Interim measure – Overview of current use of an alternative to a balancing platform
a) Bulgaria plans the implementation
by during 2017
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