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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-risk-preparedness-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2020/schedule/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2020/9780348212051",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Risk-Preparedness) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-electricity-risk-preparedness-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2020",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For Article 2 (definitions) substitute—\n“Article 2\nDefinitions\nIn this Regulation—\n“aggregation” means the function of combining multiple customer loads or generated electricity for sale, purchase or auction in any electricity market;\n“capacity allocation” means the attribution of cross zonal capacity;\n“customer” means a wholesale or final customer of electricity;\n“demand response” means the change of electricity load by final customers from their normal or current consumption patterns in response to market signals, including in response to time-variable electricity prices or incentive payments, or in response to the acceptance of the final customer’s bid to sell demand reduction or increase at a price in an organised market as defined in point (4) of Article 2 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014, whether alone or through aggregation;\n“distribution” means the transport of electricity on high-voltage, medium-voltage and low-voltage distribution systems with a view to its delivery to customers, but does not include supply;\n“distribution system operator” means a person responsible for operating, ensuring the maintenance of and, if necessary, developing the distribution system in a given area and, where applicable, its interconnections with other systems, and for ensuring the long-term ability of the system to meet reasonable demands for the distribution of electricity;\n“electricity crisis” means a present or imminent situation in which there is a significant electricity shortage, as determined by the Secretary of State and described in the risk-preparedness plan, or in which it is impossible to supply electricity to customers;\n“electricity undertaking” means a person who carries out at least one of the following functions—\n(a) generation;\n(b) transmission;\n(c) distribution;\n(d) aggregation;\n(e) demand response;\n(f) energy storage;\n(g) supply or purchase of electricity,\nand who is responsible for the commercial, technical or maintenance tasks related to those functions but does not include final customers;\n“energy storage” means, in relation to the electricity system, deferring the final use of electricity to a moment later than when it was generated, or the conversion of electrical energy into a form of energy which can be stored, the storing of such energy, and the subsequent reconversion of such energy into electrical energy or use as another energy carrier;\n“final customer” means a customer purchasing electricity for the customer’s own use;\n“generation” means the production of electricity;\n“non-market-based measure” means any supply-side or demand-side measure that deviates from rules in relation to the electricity market in Great Britain or commercial agreements, the purpose of which is to mitigate an electricity crisis;\n“producer” means a person who generates electricity;\n“the regulatory authority” means the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority;\n“security of electricity supply” means the ability of an electricity system to guarantee the supply of electricity to customers with a clearly established level of performance, as determined by the regulatory authority;\n“supply” means the sale, including the resale, of electricity to customers;\n“transmission” means the transport of electricity on the extra high-voltage and high-voltage interconnected system with a view to its delivery to final customers or to distributors, but does not include supply;\n“transmission system operator” means a person who is designated as an electricity transmission operator under section 10H of the Electricity Act 1989;\n“wholesale customer” means a person who purchases electricity for the purpose of resale.”",
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