ERGEG considers that efficient balancing arrangements are the key to a properly functioning wholesale market. Enhanced cross-border balancing exchanges should foster competition, yield a decrease in overall costs for balancing services and maintain security of supply.
Improved arrangements for cross border balancing in the France-UK-Ireland (FUI) region was identified as one of the three priority topics to be tackled as part of ERGEG’s Electricity Regional Initiative (ERI), along with congestion management and wholesale market transparency
ERGEG launched its first formal consultation for the FUI region in November 2006. This included a consultation on increasing reciprocal access to balancing markets in the FUI region.
The continuing work on cross border balancing has been facilitated through a dedicated Balancing workstream. The workstream consists of Regulators, TSO’s and stakeholders.
The TSO’s proposal is given in the below paper “Proposal for the introduction of cross border TSO balancing procurement”.
Any comments should be received by November 20, 2007 and should be sent by email to: ERI@ofgem.gov.uk
