The energy sector is developing rapidly. The process of European market integration began some years ago. Its purpose is to create a single European market that enables market parties to trade gas and electricity across national borders easily and efficiently.
Electricity market
Prequalification
Requirements for providing different types of balancing power
Through the prequalification process, potential providers demonstrate that they meet the requirements for providing the various types of control reserve necessary to ensure security of supply.
These requirements include IT, product-specific and technical requirements, which are reviewed during the prequalification process.
All relevant documents can be found at www.regelleistung.net in the ‘Become a provider’ section under ‘Prequalification procedure’ and are available for download.
The main contents of the prequalification are:
- Creation of IT and service delivery concepts,
- Completion of the operational test run,
- Completion of the technical control test,
- and submission of certificates (e.g. ANB).
The prequalification documents are submitted to the relevant TSO using the PQ portal. Access to the PQ portal can be requested from the respective connecting TSO.
Further information and documents can be found at www.regelleistung.net
If you have any questions on this topic, please feel free to contact the Control Services team at regelleistung(at)tennet.eu.