{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-internal-markets-no-2-regulations-2020/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1401",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets) (No. 2) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-internal-markets-no-2-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Standard conditions of electricity transmission licences",
  "text": "(1) The standard conditions of an electricity transmission licence are amended as follows.\n(2) In condition B6 (restriction on activity and financial ring fencing)—\n(a) after paragraph 1, insert—\n“1A 1A The licensee must not own, develop, manage or operate an electricity storage facility, except where the licensee owns or operates an electricity storage facility which is situated on a site on which the licensee carries out its transmission business, for the purpose of continuity of supply and system resilience, and the electricity storage facility is not used to buy or sell electricity in the electricity markets.”;\n(b) in paragraph 4, at the beginning, for “Nothing” substitute “Subject to paragraph 1A, nothing”; and\n(c) after paragraph 5, insert—\n“6. In this condition:\n“electricity markets” means markets for electricity, including over-the-counter markets and electricity exchanges, markets for the trading of energy, capacity, balancing and ancillary services in all timeframes, including forward, day-ahead and intraday markets;\n“electricity storage” means the conversion of electrical energy into a form of energy that can be stored, the storing of that energy, and the subsequent reconversion of that energy back into electrical energy;\n“electricity storage facility” means a facility where electricity storage occurs; and\n“system resilience” means the ability to avoid, adapt to, and quickly and efficiently recover from potential or actual disturbance in the supply of electricity.”.\n(3) In condition B20 (regional cooperation), for paragraphs 1 and 2 substitute “1. [Omitted]”.\n(4) In condition E7 (restriction on activity and financial ring fencing)—\n(a) after paragraph 1, insert—\n“1A. The licensee must not own, develop, manage or operate an electricity storage facility, except where the licensee owns or operates an electricity storage facility which is situated on a site on which the licensee carries out its transmission business, for the purpose of continuity of supply and system resilience, and the electricity storage facility is not used to buy or sell electricity in the electricity markets.”;\n(b) in paragraph 4, at the beginning, for “Nothing” substitute “Subject to paragraph 1A, nothing”; and\n(c) after paragraph 5, insert—\n“6. In this condition:\n“electricity markets” means markets for electricity, including over-the-counter markets and electricity exchanges, markets for the trading of energy, capacity, balancing and ancillary services in all timeframes, including forward, day-ahead and intraday markets;\n“electricity storage” means the conversion of electrical energy into a form of energy that can be stored, the storing of that energy, and the subsequent reconversion of that energy back into electrical energy;\n“electricity storage facility” means a facility where electricity storage occurs; and\n“system resilience” means the ability of the transmission system to avoid, adapt to, and quickly and efficiently recover from potential or actual disturbance in the supply of electricity.”\n(5) In condition E24 (regional cooperation), for paragraphs 1 and 2 substitute “1. [not in use]”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1401/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:21:44.951013+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}