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CONTENTS

  • A guide to electricity imbalance pricing in Great Britain
  • 1. Summary
    • Imbalance prices
    • Imbalance charges
  • 2. Key Concepts
    • The basic starting point
    • What is the Transmission System?
    • Why does the Transmission System need to be balanced?
    • Physical Notifications, Contract Notifications and Gate Closure
    • Transmission System net imbalance
    • How does the System Operator balance the Transmission System?
    • Timing of the Balancing Mechanism, TERRE and BSAD
    • Ancillary Services and Commercial agreements
    • The Balancing Mechanism
    • Bid-Offer Pairs for a BM Unit
    • Bid Offer Acceptances (BOAs)
    • Trans European Replacement Reserves Exchange (TERRE) Actions
    • Short Term Operating Reserve (STOR)
    • Demand Control
    • Balancing Services Adjustment Data (BSAD)
    • Balancing Services Adjustment Actions
    • Buy Price Price Adjustment (BPA)/Sell Price Price Adjustment (SPA)
    • Party imbalances
    • Imbalance prices
  • 3. How does pricing work?
    • What do we use to calculate the energy imbalance price?
    • The BSC Systems calculate the energy imbalance price using balancing actions accepted by the SO for that Settlement Period.
    • Which balancing actions to use?
    • How are balancing actions submitted to the BSC Systems?
    • Balancing Services Adjustment Actions
    • Explanation
    • Trans European Replacement Reserves Exchange (TERRE) Actions
    • Determining STOR Action Prices
    • NULL priced Balancing Services Adjustment Actions
    • System Operator Flagging
      • Emergency Flagging
    • Continuous Acceptance Duration Limit (CADL) Flagging
    • Ranked Sets
    • Unranked balancing actions
    • Ranked balancing actions
    • De Minimis Tagging
    • Arbitrage Tagging
    • NIV Tagging
    • Replacement Price
    • PAR Tagging
    • Buy Price Price Adjustment (BPA)/Sell Price Price Adjustment (SPA)
    • Transmission Loss Multipliers (TLMs)
  • 4. Pricing calculation example
    • Energy imbalance price calculation processes
    • 1. Receive Balancing Actions (Includes SO-Flagging, CADL Flagged, Emergency Flagged)
    • 2. Determine STOR action price
    • 3. Formulate the Ranked Sets of balancing actions
    • 4. Remove De Minimis and Arbitrage actions
    • 5. Classification
    • 6. Net Imbalance Volume (NIV) Tagging
    • 7. Replacement Price
    • 8. Price Average Reference Volume (PAR) Tagging
    • 9. Buy Price Price Adjustment (BPA) / Sell Price Price Adjustment (SPA)
    • 10. Transmission Loss Multiplier and final energy imbalance price calculation
  • 5. How does the Market Price work?
  • 6. Imbalance charges
  • 7. Imbalance pricing data
    • Settlement Reports
  • 8. Glossary
  • 9. Appendix 1 – The Reserve Scarcity Price
    • Dynamic Methods
    • When is LOLP published?
  • 10. Appendix 2 – Demand Control actions
  • 11. Appendix 3 – The BPA and SPA
    • Further Information

Imbalance Pricing Guidance V15.0

Effective From Date:25/06/2020
Status:SUPERSEDED
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