Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2196Show full title

Article 3 U.K. Definitions

[F1 Except where stated in this Article,] for the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions provided for in F2 ... Article 2 of [F3 Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the internal market for electricity (recast)], Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 543/2013(1), F4 ... Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/631, Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1388(2), Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1447 F5 ... and Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1485 shall apply.

In addition, the following definitions shall apply:

(1)

‘defence service provider’ means a legal entity with a legal or contractual obligation to provide a service contributing to one or several measures of the system defence plan;

(2)

‘restoration service provider’ means a legal entity with a legal or contractual obligation to provide a service contributing to one or several measures of the restoration plan;

(3)

‘high priority significant grid user’ means the significant grid user for which special conditions apply for disconnection and re-energisation;

(4)

‘netted demand’ means the netted value of active power seen from a given point of the system, computed as (load — generation), generally expressed in kilowatts (kW) or megawatts (MW), at a given instant or averaged over any designated interval of time;

(5)

‘restoration plan’ means all technical and organisational measures necessary for the restoration of the system back to normal state;

(6)

‘re-energisation’ means reconnecting generation and load to energise the parts of the system that have been disconnected;

(7)

‘top-down re-energisation strategy’ means a strategy that requires the assistance of other TSOs to re-energise parts of the system of a TSO;

(8)

‘bottom-up re-energisation strategy’ means a strategy where part of the system of a TSO can be re-energised without the assistance from other TSOs;

(9)

‘resynchronisation’ means synchronising and connecting again two synchronised regions at the resynchronisation point;

(10)

‘frequency leader’ means the TSO appointed and responsible for managing the system frequency within a synchronised region or a synchronous area in order to restore system frequency back to the nominal frequency;

(11)

‘synchronised region’ means the fraction of a synchronous area covered by interconnected TSOs with a common system frequency and which is not synchronised with the rest of the synchronous area;

(12)

‘resynchronisation leader’ means the TSO appointed and responsible for the resynchronisation of two synchronised regions;

(13)

‘resynchronisation point’ means the device used to connect two synchronised regions, usually a circuit breaker.

(15)

[F6 “SGU” or “significant grid user” means an electricity grid user of a kind specified in Article 2(1) of Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1485.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 3 inserted (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. 4(3)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1006, regs. 1(2), 3(3)(b) and S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 6(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Words in Art. 3 omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of 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. 4(3)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1006, regs. 1(2), 3(3)(b) and S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 6(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in Art. 3 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. 4(3)(ba) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 6(2)(4)(b)(ii)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4 Words in Art. 3 omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of 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. 4(3)(c) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1006, regs. 1(2), 3(3)(c) and S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 6(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F5 Words in Art. 3 omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of 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. 4(3)(d) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1006, regs. 1(2), 3(3)(c) and S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 6(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F6 Art. 3(15) inserted (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. 4(4) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1006, regs. 1(2), 3(3)(d) and S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 6(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

(1)

Commission Regulation (EU) No 543/2013 of 14 June 2013 on submission and publication of data in electricity markets and amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 163, 15.6.2013, p. 1).

(2)

Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1388 of 17 August 2016 establishing a network code on demand connection (OJ L 223, 18.8.2016, p. 10).