Section Q: Balancing Services Activities

Section Q deals with the submission of data items in respect of relevant BM Units in accordance with the Grid Code; the submission of Physical Notifications in accordance with the Grid Code, to enable Final Physical Notification Data to be submitted by the NETSO; arrangements for the submission by Lead Parties of Bid-Offer Pairs for relevant BM Units and for the acceptance of Bids and Offers by the NETSO; the submission by the NETSO of Acceptance Data for the purposes of Section T and Section V; the submission by National Grid of Balancing Services Adjustment Data; the submission by the NETSO to the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Agent (BMRA) of other operational data items for the purposes of Section V.

Content list

• Data Submission by Lead Party
• Final Physical Notification Data
• Balancing Mechanism Bid Offer Submission

Balancing Mechanism Bid Offer Acceptance

• Bid-Offer Acceptances
• Acceptance Data
• Suspension of balancing mechanism
• Historic balancing mechanism prices

Submission of Data by the NETSO

• Submission of data to the BMRA
• Submission of data to the ECVAA
• Submission of data to the CDCA
• Submission of data to the SVAA
• Supplemental Balancing Reserve
• Submission of Balancing Mechanism data to the SAA
• Balancing Services Adjustment Data
• Applicable Balancing Services Volume
• Transparency Regulation Data
• Loss of Load Probability Function
• Demand Control Instructions
• Manifest Errors
• Meaning of Manifest Error
• Claiming Manifest Errors
• Flagging Manifest Errors
• Determination of Manifest Errors
• Adjustments to Bid or Offer Price
• Error compensation amounts

Outages

• General
• Claim for compensation following an unplanned outage
• Compensation Entitlements