Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2196Show full title

Article 23 U.K. Design of the restoration plan

1. By 18 December 2018, each TSO shall design a restoration plan in consultation with relevant DSOs, SGUs, [F1 the regulatory authority] and the other TSOs in that synchronous area.

2. When designing its restoration plan, each TSO shall take into account, at least, the following elements:

(a) the behaviour and capabilities of load and generation;

(b) the specific needs of the high priority significant grid users listed pursuant to paragraph (4); and

(c) the characteristics of its network and of the underlying DSOs networks.

3. The restoration plan shall contain at least the following provisions:

(a) the conditions under which the restoration plan is activated, as provided for in Article 25;

(b) restoration plan instructions to be issued by the TSO; and

(c) measures subject to real-time consultation or coordination with identified parties.

4. In particular, the restoration plan shall include the following elements:

(a) a list of the measures to be implemented by the TSO on its installations;

(b) a list of the measures to be implemented by DSOs and of the DSOs responsible for implementing those measures on their installations;

(c) a list of the SGUs responsible for implementing on their installations the measures that result from mandatory requirements set out in Regulations (EU) 2016/631, (EU) 2016/1388 and (EU) 2016/1447 or from national legislation and a list of the measures to be implemented by those SGUs;

(d) the list of high priority significant grid users and the terms and conditions for their disconnection and re-energisation;

(e) a list of substations which are essential for its restoration plan procedures;

(f) the number of power sources in the TSO's control area necessary to re-energise its system with bottom-up re-energisation strategy having black start capability, quick re-synchronisation capability (through houseload operation) and island operation capability; and

(g) the implementation deadlines for each listed measure.

5. The restoration plan shall include at least the following technical and organisational measures specified in Chapter III:

(a) re-energisation procedure, in accordance with Section 2;

(b) frequency management procedure, in accordance with Section 3; and

(c) resynchronisation procedure, in accordance with Section 4.

6. The measures contained in the restoration plan shall comply with the following principles:

(a) their impact on system users shall be minimal;

(b) they shall be economically efficient;

(c) only those measures that are necessary shall be activated; and

(d) they shall not lead the interconnected transmission systems into emergency state or blackout state.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 23(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (System Operation and Connection) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/533), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 18 (as amended by S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 6(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)