-
Published16/11/2018
-
Today15/11/2025
Utilities
Belgium-Brussels: Electricity
ELIA has been appointed as Transmission Grid operator (TSO), in accordance with the law of 29.4.1999 concerning the liberalisation of the electricity market and supervises the safety, reliability and efficiency of the Transmission Grid.
ELIA must therefore ensure the provision of the requisite ancillary services — in particular Frequency Containment Reserve — in accordance with Art. 236 et seq. of the Federal Grid Code. In this context, ELIA purchases various service types that, combined, meet the minimum requirements of frequency containment reserve at the moment of the signature of the general framework:
— Asymmetric FCR Up: upward regulation when the frequency is inferior to 49 900 Hz;
— Asymmetric FCR Down: downward regulation when the frequency is greater than 50 100 Hz;
— Symmetric FCR 100 mHz: upward and downward regulation when the frequency deviates between 49 900 Hz and 50 100 Hz;
— Symmetric FCR 200 mHz: upward and downward regulation when the frequency deviates between 49 800 Hz and 50 200 Hz.
These Service Types can be provided by both CIPU and non-CIPU Technical Units. The present publication only applies to CIPU Technical Units;
The combination of the above-mentioned services is compliant with the rules and recommendations of ENTSO-E OH Policy 1 and upcoming Synchronous Area Framework Agreement for Continental Europe.
The Supplier has the required CIPU Technical Units capable of providing ELIA with the Service in accordance with Art. 236 et seq. of the Grid Code and with the rules and recommendations of ENTSO-E;
The Service is procured through an Open Qualification Procedure in which auctions can be organized, subject to this general framework. This general framework for the Service is a multiannual Framework that can be updated when required.
This version of the general framework for Frequency Containment Reserve Service by CIPU Technical Units replaces the previous version of the general framework for Frequency Containment Reserve Service by CIPU Resources (update of December 2017).
This content published on this page is meant purely as an additional service and has no legal effect. The Union's institutions do not assume any liability for its contents. The official versions of the relevant tendering notices are those published in the Supplement of Official Journal of the European Union and available in TED. Those official texts are directly accessible through the links embedded in this page. For more information please see Public Procurement Explainability and Liability notice.