OpenLegislation

Article 1

United Kingdom

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

The Commission establishes for the development of harmonised electricity rules this annual priority list for 2014:

  • capacity allocation and congestion management rules including governance for day-ahead and intraday markets including capacity calculation (Commission adoption phase),

  • network connection rules:

    • rules on requirements for generators (Commission adoption phase)

    • rules on distribution system operator and industrial load connection (Commission adoption phase)

    • rules on high-voltage direct current transmission system connection (finalise network code and start Commission adoption phase),

  • system operation rulesf1:

    • rules on operational security (Commission adoption phase)

    • rules on operational planning and scheduling (Commission adoption phase)

    • rules on load-frequency control and reserves (Commission adoption phase)

    • rules on emergency requirements and procedures (finalise network code and start Commission adoption phase),

  • balancing rules including network-related reserve power (Commission adoption phase),

  • rules for longer term (forward) capacity allocation (Commission adoption phase),

  • rules regarding harmonised transmission tariff structures (scoping by ACER to prepare framework guidelinef2).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

Rules on operational training and on requirements and operational procedures in emergency will follow later.

f2

Regarding rules on investment incentives, the TEN-E Regulation notably Article 13, provides for rules to ensure that appropriate incentives are granted to infrastructure projects of common interest in gas and electricity, which are subject to higher risks than normally incurred. In this context, the TEN-E Regulation sets out the following tasks:

  • each national regulatory authority to submit to ACER its methodology and criteria used to evaluate investments and the higher risks incurred by them, where available, by 31 July 2013,

  • ACER to facilitate the sharing of good practices and to make recommendations by 31 December 2013,

  • each national regulatory authority to publish its respective methodology and the criteria used to evaluate investments and the higher risks incurred by them by 31 March 2014.

Based on the input from the abovementioned tasks, the European Commission will decide whether legally binding guidelines need to be issued.