Availability of TSO's means, tools and facilities
- TSO must ensure availability and reliability of key tools and facilities
Retained EU Law
2017
United Kingdom
Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1485 of 2 August 2017 establishing a guideline on electricity transmission system operation (Text with EEA relevance)
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Obligations of SGUs concerning voltage control and reactive power management in system operation
- Manage voltage control and reactive power in line with TSO requirements
Dynamic stability management
- Manage dynamic stability of the transmission system
Organisation, roles, responsibilities and quality of data exchange
- Agree and publish data exchange roles and quality standards
Structural data exchange
- Provide structural data to the Transmission System Operator
Scheduled data exchange
- Provide scheduled operational data to the Transmission System Operator
Real-time data exchange
- Provide real-time data to the transmission system operator
Data exchange between TSOs and distribution-connected demand facilities or third parties participating in demand response
- Provide scheduled and real-time data to the TSO and DSO for demand response
Responsibility of the SGUs
- Notify TSO/DSO of changes, disturbances, test schedules and comply with testing requests
Amendments to contracts and general terms and conditions
- Ensure contracts and general terms comply with system operation regulation
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Frequency quality defining parameters referred to in Article 127:
Frequency quality target parameters referred to in Article 127:
Voltage ranges referred to in Article 27:
FRCE target parameters referred to in Article 128:
Limits and requirements for the exchange of FCR referred to...
FCR technical minimum requirements referred to in Article 154:
Subject matter
Scope
Definitions
Objectives and regulatory aspects
Terms and conditions or methodologies of TSOs
Approval of terms and conditions or methodologies of TSOs
Amendments to the terms and conditions or methodologies of TSOs
Publication on internet
Recovery of costs
Stakeholder involvement
Public consultation
Confidentiality obligations
Agreements with TSOs not bound by this Regulation
Monitoring
Annual report on operational security indicators
Annual report on load-frequency control
Annual report on regional coordination assessment
Classification of system states
Monitoring and determination of system states by TSOs
Remedial actions in system operation
Principles and criteria applicable to remedial actions
Categories of remedial actions
Preparation, activation and coordination of remedial actions
Operational security limits
Security plan for critical infrastructure protection
Obligations of all TSOs regarding voltage limits
Obligations of all TSOs concerning voltage control and reactive power management in system operation
Short-circuit current
Short-circuit current calculation and related measures
Power flow limits
Contingency lists
Contingency analysis
Contingency handling
General requirements on protection
Special protection schemes
Dynamic stability monitoring and assessment
Structural and forecast data exchange
Real-time data exchange
Structural data exchange
Real-time data exchange
Structural data exchange
Scheduled data exchange
Real-time data exchange
Data exchange between TSOs and DSOs concerning significant power generating modules
Data exchange between TSOs and transmission-connected demand facilities
Tasks of TSOs regarding system operation
Purpose and responsibilities
Performing operational tests and analysis
Training program
Training conditions
Training coordinators and trainers
Certification of system operator employees in charge of real-time operation
Common language for communication between the system operator employees in charge of real time operation
Cooperation between TSOs on training
General provisions regarding individual and common grid models
Year-ahead scenarios
Year-ahead individual grid models
Year-ahead common grid models
Updates of year-ahead individual and common grid models
Week-ahead individual and common grid models
Methodology for building day-ahead and intraday common grid models
Quality control for grid models
Operational security analysis in operational planning
Year-ahead up to and including week-ahead operational security analysis
Day-ahead, intraday and close to real-time operational security analysis
Methodology for coordinating operational security analysis
Proposal for regional operational security coordination
Organisation for regional operational security coordination
Regional operational security coordination
Common grid model building
Regional outage coordination
Regional adequacy assessment
Outage coordination objective
Regional coordination
Methodology for assessing the relevance of assets for outage coordination
Lists of relevant power generating modules and relevant demand facilities
Update of the lists of relevant power generating modules and relevant demand facilities
Lists of relevant grid elements
Update of the list of relevant grid elements
Appointment of outage planning agents
Treatment of relevant assets located in a distribution system or in a closed distribution system
Variations to deadlines for the year-ahead outage coordination
General provisions on availability plans
Long-term indicative availability plans
Provision of year-ahead availability plan proposals
Year-ahead coordination of the availability status of relevant assets for which the outage planning agent is not a TSO taking part in an outage coordination region, nor a DSO or a CDSO
Year-ahead coordination of the availability status of relevant assets for which the outage planning agent is a TSO taking part in an outage coordination region, a DSO or a CDSO
Provision of preliminary year-ahead availability plans
Validation of year-ahead availability plans within outage coordination regions
Final year-ahead availability plans
Updates to the final year-ahead availability plans
Management of the ‘testing’ status of relevant assets
Procedure for handling forced outages
Real-time execution of the availability plans
Forecast for control area adequacy analysis
Control area adequacy analysis
Control area adequacy ...
Control area adequacy in day-ahead and intraday
Ancillary services
Reactive power ancillary services
Establishment of scheduling processes
Notification of schedules within scheduling areas
Coherence of schedules
Provision of information to other TSOs
General provisions for ENTSO for Electricity operational planning data environment
Individual grid models, common grid models and operational security analysis
Outage coordination
System adequacy
Synchronous area operational agreements
LFC block operational agreements
LFC area operational agreement
Monitoring area operational agreement
Imbalance netting agreement
Cross-border FRR activation agreement
Cross-border RR activation agreement
Sharing agreement
Exchange agreement
Frequency quality defining and target parameters
FRCE target parameters
Criteria application process
Frequency quality evaluation data
Frequency quality evaluation criteria
Data collection and delivery process
Synchronous area monitor
LFC block monitor
Information on load and generation behaviour
Ramping period within the synchronous area
Ramping restrictions for active power output
Mitigation
Basic structure
Process activation structure
Process responsibility structure
Frequency containment process
Frequency restoration process
Reserve replacement process
Automatic and manual frequency restoration process
Imbalance netting process
Cross-border FRR activation process
Cross-border RR activation process
General requirements for cross-border control processes
TSO notification
Infrastructure
System states related to system frequency
FCR dimensioning
FCR technical minimum requirements
FCR prequalification process
FCR provision
FRR dimensioning
FRR minimum technical requirements
FRR prequalification process
RR dimensioning
RR minimum technical requirements
RR prequalification process
Exchange of FCR within a synchronous area
Sharing of FCR within a synchronous area
General requirements for the exchange of FRR and RR within a synchronous area
General requirements for sharing FRR and RR within a synchronous area
Exchange of FRR within a synchronous area
Sharing of FRR within a synchronous area
Exchange of RR within a synchronous area
Sharing of RR within a synchronous area
General requirements
Frequency coupling between synchronous areas
Exchange of FCR between synchronous areas
Sharing of FCR between synchronous areas
General requirements for sharing of FRR and RR between synchronous areas
Exchange of FRR between synchronous areas
Sharing of FRR between synchronous areas
Exchange of RR between synchronous areas
Sharing of RR between synchronous areas
Cross-border activation process for FRR/RR
Time control process
Reserve providing groups or units connected to the DSO grid
General transparency requirements
Information on operational agreements
Information on frequency quality
Information on the load-frequency control structure
Information on FCR
Information on FRR
Information on RR
Information on sharing and exchange
Entry into force
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