EACL-PL-04
Balancing Service Provider (BSP) on the Flexibility Platform
1. Description of the Use Case
1.1. Name of the Use Case
| ID | Area /Domain(s)/Zone(s) | Name of the Use Case |
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| 1 | Poland, | EACL-PL-04 |
1.2. Version Management
| Version No. | Date | Name of author(s) | Changes | Approval status |
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| 0.7 | 2021-07-26T00:00:00 | Wojciech Lubczyński and Grzegorz Sawicki (PSE), | None | None |
1.3. Scope and Objectives of Use Case
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| Scope | Introduction of BSP, linking it with FSP or FSPA, creation of a scheduling unit and its prequalification for the Balancing Market |
| Objective(s) | Enable pre-qualified FSP and FSPA resources to provide balancing services in the balancing market via BSP |
| Related business case(s) | EACL-PL-01 Prequalification |
1.4. Narrative of Use Case
Short description
BSP registration on the flexibility platform
BSP verification of the technical capabilities of FSP and FSPA
Creation of a scheduling unit by the BSP based on selected FSP and FSPA resources
Testing the scheduling unit and confirming that the BSP and this scheduling unit meet the conditions set out in the Terms and Condition Related to Balancing
Confirmation by TSO of BSP’s ability to provide balancing services based on a scheduling unit made up of FSP and FSPA resources
Complete description
Registration of BSP on Flexibility Platform
Scenario 1
BSP already has a contract with TSO for the provision of balancing services
The BSP registers on the flexibility platform.
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1.6. Use case conditions
| Relation to other use cases |
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| Level of depth |
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| Generic, regional or national relation |
| National Polish Flexibility Market |
| Nature of the use cases |
| Business Use Case |
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2. Diagrams of Use Case
3. Technical Details
3.1. Actors
| Actor Name | Actor Type | Actor Description | Further information specific to this Use Case |
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| Transmission System Operator (TSO) | Business | A natural or legal person who is responsible for operating, ensuring the maintenance of and, if necessary, developing the transmission system in a given area and, where applicable, its interconnections with other systems, and for ensuring the long-term ability of the system to meet reasonable demands for the transmission of electricity | |
| Distribution System Operator (DSO) | Business | A natural or legal person who is responsible for operating, ensuring the maintenance of and, if necessary, developing the distribution system in a given area and, where applicable, its interconnections with other systems, and for ensuring the long-term ability of the system to meet reasonable demands for the distribution of electricity | |
| Flexibility Service Provider (FSP) | Business | A natural or legal person who is a market participant providing flexibility services to any electricity market that represents and aggregates the capacity of the entities that own a distributed energy resources (DER). | |
| Market Operator (MO) or Flexibility Platform Operator (FPO) | Business | A natural or legal person who organizes auctions (continuous auction, discrete auctions, call for tenders) between buyers and sellers of electricity-related products in the markets. Manage/operate the platform for trading (where bids and offers are collected). Clear the market and communicate results. | |
| Balancing Service Provider | Business | A market participant with reserve-providing units or reserve-providing groups able to provide balancing services to TSO or a market participant providing either or both balancing energy and balancing capacity to transmission system operators | |
3.2. References
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4. Step by Step Analysis of Use Case
4.1. Overview of Scenarios
| No. | Scenario Name | Scenario Description | Primary Actor | Triggering Event | Pre-Condition | Post-Condition |
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| 1 | Registration of new BSP | None | | Registration of new BSP | | |
| 2 | Registration of existing BSP | None | | Registration of existing BSP | | |
| 3 | Assignment of resources | None | | Assignment of resources | | |
| 4 | Verification | None | | Verification | | |
| 5 | Registration | None | | Registration | | |
| 6 | Change within the scheduling unit | None | | Change within the scheduling unit | | |
| 7 | Request for recertification demanded by TSO | None | | Request for recertification demanded by TSO | | |
Notes
4.2. Steps – Scenarios
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| Registration of new BSP |
| Step No. | Event. | Name of Process/ Activity | Description of Process/ Activity. | Service | Information Producer (Actor) | Information Receiver (Actor) | Information Exchanged | Requirements, R-ID |
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| Registration of existing BSP |
| Step No. | Event. | Name of Process/ Activity | Description of Process/ Activity. | Service | Information Producer (Actor) | Information Receiver (Actor) | Information Exchanged | Requirements, R-ID |
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| Assignment of resources |
| Step No. | Event. | Name of Process/ Activity | Description of Process/ Activity. | Service | Information Producer (Actor) | Information Receiver (Actor) | Information Exchanged | Requirements, R-ID |
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| Scenario Name: |
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| Verification |
| Step No. | Event. | Name of Process/ Activity | Description of Process/ Activity. | Service | Information Producer (Actor) | Information Receiver (Actor) | Information Exchanged | Requirements, R-ID |
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| Scenario Name: |
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| Registration |
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| Change within the scheduling unit |
| Step No. | Event. | Name of Process/ Activity | Description of Process/ Activity. | Service | Information Producer (Actor) | Information Receiver (Actor) | Information Exchanged | Requirements, R-ID |
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| Request for recertification demanded by TSO |
| Step No. | Event. | Name of Process/ Activity | Description of Process/ Activity. | Service | Information Producer (Actor) | Information Receiver (Actor) | Information Exchanged | Requirements, R-ID |
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| Information exchanged ID | Name of Information | Description of Information Exchanged | Requirement |
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6. Requirements (optional)
| Category Identifier | Name | Description | mRID |
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| Req_ID | Req_Name | ‘Balancing Service Provider (BSP) on the Flexibility Platform’ | |
| Identifier | Name | Description | mRID |
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7. Common Terms and Definitions
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