PART IVLOAD-FREQUENCY CONTROL AND RESERVES

TITLE 5FREQUENCY CONTAINMENT RESERVES

Article 153FCR dimensioning

1.

All TSOs of F1the GB synchronous area shall determine, at least annually, the reserve capacity for FCR required for the synchronous area and the initial FCR obligation of each TSO in accordance with paragraph 2.

2.

All TSOs of F2the GB synchronous area shall specify dimensioning rules in the synchronous area operational agreement in accordance with the following criteria:

(a)

the reserve capacity for FCR required for the synchronous area shall cover at least the reference incident F3...

F4(b)

the size of the reference incident shall be either—

(i)

the largest imbalance that may result from an instantaneous change of active power such as that of a single power generating module, single demand facility, or single HVDC interconnector or from a tripping of an AC line; or

(ii)

the maximum instantaneous loss of active power consumption due to the tripping of one or two connection points,

and the reference incident shall be determined separately for positive and negative direction;

F5(c)

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(d)

the shares of the reserve capacity on FCR required for each TSO as initial FCR obligation shall be based on the sum of the net generation and consumption of its control area divided by the sum of net generation and consumption of F6the GB synchronous area over a period of 1 year.