Consultation

Following on from the consultation that closed on 22nd April 2022, National Grid Interconnectors Limited (NGIC), National Grid IFA2 Limited (NGIFA2) and Réseau de Transport d’Electricité  (RTE) have identified further amendments to the Access Rules for the IFA and the IFA2 Interconnector.

This re-consultation opens on Friday 18^th November 2022 and will close on Friday 16^th December 2022.

The additional modifications being re-consulted on are:

- Introduction of text to align with the participation agreement suspension clauses within the EU Harmonised Allocation Rules.

- Further clarity around the possible scenarios that could cause Auction cancellation.

Please provide your feedback to [email protected] by Friday 16th December 2022.

Article 19(4) of the Retained Electricity Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2019/943 as amended by Regulation 7 and paragraph 18 of Schedule 4 of the Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes)(Amendment etc.)(EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (2020 No. 1006) (the 'Retained Regulation') puts a requirement on GB TSOs to propose a methodology outlining conditions for the use of congestion income (UCI) revenues, in accordance with the provisions of that Retained Regulation.

Interested GB TSOs have worked together to draft this proposed GB UCI methodology, which is now published for consultation (in line with the provisions of Article 19). We would like to invite stakeholder feedback on the methodology. Attached here is the proposed methodology and a supporting explanatory document which provides further context.

Please provide your feedback to [email protected] by Tuesday 12 July 2022.

Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE), National Grid Interconnectors Limited (NGIC) and National Grid IFA2 Limited (NGIFA2) are proposing an amendment to the current Long Term Auction Product Mix by introducing new Splitting Rules for IFA and IFA2. 

Feedback is invited from all customers and stakeholders ahead of submission to the French regulatory authority for approval.

This consultation opens on 30th May 2022 and will close on 27th June 2022.

Réseau de Transport d’Electricité  (RTE), National Grid Interconnectors Limited (NGIC) and National Grid IFA2 Limited (NGIFA2) are proposing an amendment to the Access Rules for the IFA and the IFA2 Interconnector. This consultation opens on Tuesday 22nd March 2022 and will close on Friday 22nd April 2022. 

The modifications being consulted on are:

• Enabling the return of long term transmission rights which contain planned maintenance periods

• The possibility to cancel Long term auctions when no new capacity is to be sold

• Clarification on process during balancing mechanism outages

• Housekeeping changes around Intraday nomination schedules

• Other changes requested by the Joint Allocation Office (JAO)

National Grid Interconnectors Limited (NGIC) and National Grid IFA2 Limited (NGIFA2) are proposing house-keeping amendments to the Charging Methodology for the IFA  and the IFA2 interconnector. This consultation opens on Tuesday 22nd March 2022 and will close on Friday 22 April 2022.

In summary, the proposed modifications to the Charging Methodology reflect the following:

• the end of the Brexit transition period,
• the go live of the IFA2 Interconnector in January 2021
• the current systems used to allocate interconnector capacity.

The Trade & Cooperation Arrangement (TCA) between the United Kingdom and the European Union sets out proposed trading arrangements to replace the UK’s membership of the Single Day Ahead Coupling (SDAC) market. Annex ENER-4 of the TCA sets out the broad requirement for this new market design, known as Loose Volume Coupling (LVC). Under LVC, the volume and flow of interconnectors between the UK and EU bidding zones directly connected to the UK are determined independently from the pan-EU SDAC market process.

As set out in the TCA, a first step in the development of the LVC solution is the delivery of a Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA). Relevant UK and EU TSOs have worked together with their consultancy partners (CEPA) to publish this first stage deliverable which can be found at the link below.

UK TSOs would like to invite wider stakeholder feedback from across the industry on the published CBA report and the supporting presentation. While the TCA sets out a formal consultation period for the development of technical procedures at a later stage, general industry feedback on the broad design of LVC as set out in the report and presentation is a key first step in the progression of the solution.

Please provide your feedback to [email protected] or directly to any of the UK Interconnectors, ideally by 17 May 2021:

BritNed Development Limited

EirGrid Interconnector DAC

ElecLink Limited

Moyle Interconnector Limited

National Grid Ventures (representing IFA, IFA2 and NSL)

Nemo Link Limited

Industry feedback sessions are planned as follows:

UK – EFET-Energy UK TCA Forum (11^th May)

UK – Joint European Stakeholder Group (11^th May)

SEM - All Island Industry Forum (29^th April)

Please contact us or any of the UK Interconnectors if you would like feedback to be shared with any other industry group not listed here.

Following the amended Harmonised Allocation Rules for Long-Term Transmission Right (HARs) entering into force of on 1st January 2020, National Grid Interconnectors Ltd (NGIC and NGIFA2) and ElecLink Limited have reviewed and updated the France and Great Britain Border Specific Annex (FR-GB BSA) to ensure it is aligned with the amended HARs.

NGIC, NGIFA2, RTE and ElecLink Limited would like to invite feedback from IFA Customers and Market Parties on the France and Great Britain Border Specific Annex consultation document.

The consultation will be open for 28 days, therefore the deadline to respond to this will be 18.00 CEST on 23^rd April 2020.

All responses should be titled “Response to FR-GB BSA consultation, March 2020”’ and are to be submitted via email to [email protected], [email protected] or directly on RTE’s website: https://www.concerte.fr.

National Grid IFA2 Limited (NGIFA2) is proposing a Long Term Auction Product Mix for the forthcoming IFA2 1000MW HVDC Interconnector, to be used from the start of its commercial operation planned for Q2 2020, and conclude on the 31st of December 2020.

NGIC and NGIFA2 would like to invite feedback from Customers and Market Parties on the Long Term Auction Product Mix and proposal, please see the attached cover letter for further detail. 

The latest date for responses to this consultation will be 17:00 BST on 27^th September 2019. All responses should be titled “Response to IFA/IFA2 Product Mix consultation” and are to be submitted via email to [email protected] or directly on RTE’s website https://www.concerte.fr.

Within our BREXIT contingency planning for IFA and IFA2, NGIC and RTE consider that a further version of Access Rules would be required in the event that the GB-France border loses access to the Internal Energy Market (IEM), that would be applicable following the implementation of these new capacity management platforms: RNP, JAO/eCAT (for Long Term, Explicit Day Ahead & Intraday auctions).

Industry participants will recall that a non-IEM (No Deal, CMS) set of IFA Rules was approved in March 2019, and a set of IEM (Deal, SAP/RNP/IAP) were consulted on in June 2019. However, this consultation which is live from 2nd August 2019 to 30th August 2019 proposes a new set of Access Rules to apply after 1^st December in the event of a No Deal Brexit. Please find the cover letter and the rules attached.

The table below summarises the status of each set of Access Rules for clarity.

The latest date for responses to this consultation will be 18.00 CEST on 30th August 2019. All responses should be titled “Response to IFA/IFA2 No Deal Access Rules consultation, August  2019”’ and are to be submitted via email to [email protected] or directly on RTE’s website https://www.concerte.fr .

In parallel with the IFA/IFA2 consultation on No Deal Access Rules, NGIC and NGIFA2 are consulting on a proposed modified Charging Methodology.  This methodology would apply in the event of GB ceasing to have access to the Internal Energy Market, and would apply for operation via IFA’s current DAMAS-based allocation platform, and also following migration to JAO/RNP.

Please see Cover Letter and Methodology Document attached.  

Market Parties are invited to respond to this consultation by 18:00 (CEST) on Friday 30^th August 2019. 

NGIC (and RTE) are planning IFA’s migration to new capacity allocation systems in December 2019, and are consulting on proposed modified IFA access rules to support this implementation, which will be applicable to both IFA1 and IFA2.

New platforms will be as follows:

•  Single Allocation platform (for Long Term capacity allocations, and Day Ahead Fallback explicit allocation).
• Intraday Auction platform (enhanced explicit Intraday auction process)
• Regional Nominations platform (for IFA Nominations, all timescales).

 The changes and associated background are summarised within the cover letter.

NGIC and RTE would like to invite feedback from Market Participants on the following consultation documents.

Other documents that will make up the suite of IFA Access Rules are attached below. There are no modifications proposed to these other documents within this IFA consultation as they are all owned by the all-TSO community, and hence they are provided here for information.

Modified Participation Agreements will be required as part of the migration to the new platforms, and are also attached here, for information:

Intraday Participation Agreement (to follow)

The latest date for responses to this consultation will be 18.00 CEST on 28th June 2019.

All responses should be titled “Response to IFA/IFA2 Access Rules Consultation, June 2019” and are to be submitted via email to [email protected] and to RTE via their website www.concerte.fr

NGIC and NGIFA2 are planning the implementation of new capacity allocation systems in December 2019, and are consulting on a proposed modified Charging Methodology Statement that will be applicable to both IFA1 and IFA2.

The new platforms will be as follows:

• Single Allocation platform (for Long Term capacity allocations, and Day Ahead Fallback explicit allocation).
• Intraday Auction platform (enhanced explicit Intraday auction process)
• Regional Nominations platform (for IFA Nominations, all timescales).

The proposed Charging Methodology is also attached.

The latest date for responses to this consultation will be 18.00 CEST on 1st July 2019.

All responses should be titled “Response to IFA/IFA2 Charging Methodology, July 2019” and are to be submitted via email to [email protected]

NGIC and RTE are consulting on modified Access Rules in case access to the European Internal Energy Market becomes discontinued under a No Deal Brexit from 30^th March 2019. Specifically, the changes to the IFA business process would be to revert to explicit auctions in the day ahead timescale.

NGIC and RTE would like to invite feedback from Market Participants on the consultation documents.  The latest date for responses to this consultation will be 17.00 GMT on 25^th January 2019.

Please entitle your response “IFA Access Rules Consultation” and submit to [email protected], and/or via the RTE consultation website.

Consultation documents as follows:

IFA has amended the document structure for the IFA Access Rules and made changes where applicable to the documents to outline the difference between IFA as the Allocation Platform and IFA as the Interconnector Operator. In addition, IFA has also made changes to reflect the evolving contractual framework whereby some documents will be governed under the Joint Allocation Office PA and some documents will be governed under the Nomination PA. We have endeavoured to minimise the changes required to the IFA Access Rules as a result of the move to SAP/RNP.

NGIC and RTE would like to invite feedback from Market Participants on the above consultation documents.

The latest date for responses to this consultation will be 18.00 CEST on 21 May 2018.

All responses should be titled ‘[IFA Consultation on the proposed Contractual Framework and subsequent Rules documents for IFA’s move to Single Allocation Platform and Regional Nomination Platform]’ and are to be submitted via email to [email protected] and [email protected].

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Harmonised Allocation Rules for long-term transmission rights in accordance with Article 52 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1719 of 26 September 2016 establishing a Guideline on Forward Capacity Allocation

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