Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 shall apply. In addition, the following definitions shall apply:

‘balancing reserves’ mean all resources, if procured ex ante or in real time, or according to legal obligations, which are available to the TSO for balancing purposes;

‘balancing time unit’ means the time period for which the price for balancing reserves is established;

‘bidding zone’ means the largest geographical area within which market participants are able to exchange energy without capacity allocation;

‘capacity allocation’ means the attribution of cross zonal capacity;

‘consumption unit’ means a resource which receives electrical energy for its own use, excluding TSOs and Distribution Systems Operators (DSOs);

‘control area’ means a coherent part of the interconnected system, operated by a single system operator and shall include connected physical loads and/or generation units if any;

‘coordinated net transmission capacity’ means a capacity calculation method based on the principle of assessing and defining ex ante a maximum energy exchange between adjacent bidding zones;

‘critical network element’ means a network element either within a bidding zone or between bidding zones taken into account in the capacity calculation process, limiting the amount of power that can be exchanged;

‘cross-control area balancing’ means a balancing scheme where a TSO can receive bids for activation coming from other TSOs’ areas. It does not include re-dispatching or the delivery of emergency energy;

‘cross zonal capacity’ means the capability of the interconnected system to accommodate energy transfer between bidding zones;

‘currency’ is euro if at least one part of the bidding zone(s) concerned is part of a country in which euro is a legal tender. In any other case it is the local currency;

‘cut-off time’ means the point in time where TSOs have to confirm all matched nominations to the market. The cut-off time refers not only to daily or intra daily markets but also to the different markets that cover imbalance adjustments and reserve allocation;

‘countertrading’ means a cross zonal exchange initiated by system operators between two bidding zones to relieve physical congestion;

‘data provider’ means the entity that is sending the data to the central information transparency platform;

‘explicit allocation’ means the allocation of cross zonal capacity only, without the energy transfer;

‘flow based parameters’ mean the available margins on critical network elements with associated power transfer distribution factors;

‘generation unit’ means a single electricity generator belonging to a production unit;

‘implicit allocation’ means a congestion management method in which energy is obtained at the same time as cross zonal capacity;

‘market time unit’ means the period for which the market price is established or the shortest possible common time period for the two bidding zones, if their market time units are different;

‘offered capacity’ means the cross zonal capacity offered by the transmission capacity allocator to the market;

‘planned’ means an event known ex ante by the primary owner of the data;

‘power transfer distribution factor’ means a representation of the physical flow on a critical network element induced by the variation of the net position of a bidding zone;

‘primary owner of the data’ means the entity which creates the data;

‘production unit’ means a facility for generation of electricity made up of a single generation unit or of an aggregation of generation units;

‘profile’ means a geographical boundary between one bidding zone and several neighbouring bidding zones;

‘redispatching’ means a measure activated by one or several system operators by altering the generation and/or load pattern in order to change physical flows in the transmission system and relieve a physical congestion;

‘total load’, including losses without power used for energy storage, means a load equal to generation and any imports deducting any exports and power used for energy storage;

‘transmission capacity allocator’ means the entity empowered by TSOs to manage the allocation of cross zonal capacities;

‘vertical load’ means the total amount of power flowing out of the transmission network to the distribution networks, to directly connected final customers or to the consuming part of generation;

‘year-ahead forecast margin’ means the difference between the yearly forecast of available generation capacity and the yearly forecast of maximum total load taking into account the forecast of total generation capacity, the forecast of availability of generation and the forecast of reserves contracted for system services;

‘time’ means the local time in Brussels.

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 543/2013 of 14 June 2013 on submission and publication of data in electricity markets and amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council ANNEX