The Procedures and Principles Regarding Aggregator Activities in the Electricity Market Have Been Published in the Official Gazette
Aggregation activity was added to the Electricity Market Law No. 6446 (“EML”) with Law No. 7429 on 22/12/2022 and was listed as one of the electricity market activities. The fourth paragraph of Article 12/A of the EML stated that the procedures and principles regarding the aggregation activity would be regulated by a regulation to be issued by the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (“EMRA”).
The Regulation on Aggregation Activities in the Electricity Market (“Regulation on Aggregation Activities”), issued by EMRA concerning the procedures and principles of aggregation activity, was finally published in the Official Gazette dated December 17, 2024, and numbered 32755, to enter into force on January 1, 2025. Furthermore, amendments related to aggregation activities, among other matters, were made to certain regulations listed below:
This article examines the Regulation on Aggregation Activities, which sets out the basic procedures and principles of aggregation activities.
1. Aggregator and Aggregation Activity
Aggregator refers to the legal entity holding an aggregator license or a supply license, provided that it is added in the aggregator license, which has signed an agreement with one or more network users to carry out aggregation activities in the electricity market on behalf of such network users.
Aggregation refers to the market activity carried out by the aggregator within the scope of combining and operating the generation and/or consumption of one or more network users.
2. Persons Authorized to Conduct Aggregation Activities
The aggregation activity is carried out by legal entities holding a supply license, provided that it is added in the aggregator license or license. The provisions of the Electricity Market License Regulation shall apply to the issuance, amendment of licences to these legal entities and other transactions related to licenses.
3. General Principles as to Aggregation Activity
The aggregator shall sign aggregation service agreement with the relevant network users for the market activities to be performed within the scope of aggregation activity. The aggregator shall enter into market participation agreements with the market operator, and ancillary service agreements with the network operator for participation in organized wholesale electricity market activities.
Legal entities holding supply licenses, whose aggregation activity is added in their licenses, cannot conclude aggregation service agreements with the network users in their portfolios from which they supply electricity; aggregators cannot perform wholesale activities within the scope of their licenses. Purchases and sales made for the purpose of balancing its portfolio are not considered within the scope of this wholesale activity restriction.
The aggregator may supply electricity to eligible consumers in its portfolio. In case consumption facilities are added to this portfolio, it is essential that the electricity energy supply of the facilities is carried out by the relevant aggregator. However, if the aggregator providing demand response service does not wish to supply the electricity energy and/or capacity of the consumption facilities in its portfolio, the existing agreements with the suppliers of the consumption facilities in its portfolio shall continue. In this regard, aggregators offering demand response services are given the opportunity to choose.
By applying to the relevant network operator, the aggregator can monitor, analyze and report the generation and consumption data of the network users in its portfolio through appropriate hardware and infrastructures. These activities support the effective conduct of market operations.
The aggregator manages the generation and/or consumption programs of the network users with whom it has an agreement, conducts electricity energy and capacity trading transactions on behalf of these users; and participates in ancillary services. On the other hand, the aggregator is obliged to fulfill all market obligations, including collateral and imbalances, on behalf of the users in its portfolio.
The aggregator may include generation, consumption and storage facilities separately or together in its portfolio.
Turkish Electricity Transmission Corpoartion (“TETC”) may change the balancing zones, provided that it notifies market participants and EMRA at least two months in advance.
4. General Principles Regarding the Participation of Consumption Facilities in Aggregation Activities
The aggregator may aggregate the consumption facilities connected to the distribution or transmission network in its own portfolio. The aggregator is also obliged to provide energy supply to the consumption facilities included in its portfolio within the scope of demand response. If the aggregator does not wish to carry out supply activities within this scope, it shall notify the market operator through the PMS. In the event that the said consumption facilities (i) do not want to carry out this activity later while performing energy supply and (ii) do not want to carry out energy supply activity at the portfolio creation stage or at a later stage but want to carry out this activity later, this arbitrariness is notified through the PMS in accordance with the provisions of the Electricity Market Balancing and Settlement Regulation.
Disputes arising between aggregators and/or consumption facilities and the supplier of the consumption facility due to imbalance costs that may arise from the load shifted in the consumption facilities in their portfolios in line with the instructions received under the demand-side participation service, shall be resolved within the framework of private law provisions.
Consumption facilities in the same balancing zone in the aggregator’s portfolio are considered as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit if they meet the conditions set forth in the relevant legislation. Consumption facilities are registered as separate balancing units and/or ancillary service units according to the type (distribution/transmission) to which they are connected to the network and the balancing zone in which they are located.
Consumption facilities in the same balancing zone in the aggregator portfolio are considered as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit if they meet the conditions set forth in the relevant legislation. Consumption facilities are registered as separate balancing units and/or ancillary service units according to the type (distribution/transmission) to which they are connected to the network and the balancing zone in which they are located.
Additional criteria may be determined by TETC for consumption facilities to be accepted as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit, if needed.
Upon request, the aggregator may register the consumption facilities in its portfolio as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit; however, consumption facilities whose energy supply is not provided by the aggregator are not registered as balancing unit and cannot participate in the balancing power market.
5. General Principles Regarding the Participation of Licensed Electricity Generation Facilities in Aggregation Activities
The aggregator may include licensed and operational electricity generation facilities connected to the distribution or transmission network, as well as electricity storage units and/or facilities covered under the Regulation on Storage Activities in the Electricity Market, in its portfolio.
The aggregator may include in its portfolio licensed electricity generation facilities with an operational electrical installed capacity of 100 MW or less. These electricity generation facilities included in its portfolio are accepted as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit if they meet the conditions specified in the relevant legislation.
In the aggregator's portfolio, generation facilities that are located in the same balancing zone and have an electrical installed capacity of 100 MW or less and are not balancing units are accepted as balancing units and/or ancillary service units if they meet the conditions specified in the relevant legislation.
Generation facilities are registered as separate balancing units and/or ancillary service units according to their connection to the distribution or transmission network.
Additional criteria may be determined by TETC for licensed electricity generation facilities to be accepted as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit.
At the request of the aggregator, licensed electricity generation facilities in its portfolio may be registered as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit if they meet the conditions specified in the relevant legislation.
6. General Principles Regarding the Participation of Unlicensed Electricity Generation Facilities in Aggregation Activities
The aggregator may aggregate unlicensed electricity generation facilities that are connected to the distribution or transmission network and have completed their ten-year purchase guarantee in its own portfolio to manage surplus energy.
No installed power limit is applied for unlicensed electricity generation facilities on a facility basis. However, if necessary, the Energy Market Regulatory Board (“Board”) may set lower and/or upper installed power limits.
Unlicensed electricity generation facilities in the aggregator's portfolio and in the same balancing zone are accepted as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit if they meet the conditions specified in the relevant legislation. These facilities are registered as separate balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit according to the status of the distribution or transmission network to which they are connected.
Additional criteria may be determined by TETC for unlicensed electricity generation facilities to be accepted as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit.
Upon the request of the aggregator, unlicensed electricity generation facilities in its portfolio may be registered as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit, provided that they meet the conditions specified in the relevant legislation.
7. Portfolio Limits in Aggregation Activity
The total electrical installed capacity of licensed and unlicensed electricity generation facilities in the aggregator's portfolio cannot exceed 2000 MW. Within this 2000 MW upper limit, the share of unlicensed electricity generation facilities in the aggregator's portfolio cannot exceed 500 MW.
In case the total installed capacity of licensed electricity generation facilities exceeds the 2000 MW limit, the aggregator shall remove the licensed electricity generation facilities from the portfolio within the following billing period, effective from the next billing period, until the specified limit is met. If this action is not carried out within the specified period, the market operator will begin the removal process starting with the most recently added licensed electricity generation facility in the aggregator's portfolio and will continue removing facilities until the limit condition is met. The facilities removed from the portfolio will be recorded in the portfolios of licensed market participants.
If the total installed capacity of the unlicensed electricity generation facilities exceeds the 500 MW limit, the aggregator removes the unlicensed electricity generation facilities from the portfolio until the limit is met in the following billing period, effective from the next billing period, and informs the network operator about the change. If this action is not taken, the market operator shall notify the network operator, which made the last update, to remove the unlicensed generation facility from the relevant portfolio in an amount not less than the excess amount. Within three business days following the notification, the relevant network operator carries out the portfolio reduction process, effective from the second billing period following the exceedance, and notifies the market operator via the PMS with updated data.
If the total installed capacity of licensed and unlicensed electricity generation facilities exceeds the 2000 MW limit, the aggregator shall remove licensed and/or unlicensed electricity generation facilities from the portfolio within the following billing period, effective from the next billing period, until the specified limit is met. If the transaction is not performed within this period, the market operator shall start from the last licensed electricity generation facility included in the aggregator's portfolio and remove the licensed electricity generation facilities from the portfolio until the limit condition is met. The licensed electricity generation facilities removed from the portfolio are recorded in the portfolio of the licensed market participants.
In the event that the licensed electricity generation facility in the aggregator's portfolio exceeds the 100 MW electrical installed capacity limit, the relevant electricity generation facility is removed from the portfolio, effective from the next billing period. The licensed electricity generation facilities removed from the portfolio shall be recorded in the portfolio of the licensed market participants.
No consumption and/or contract power limit is applied for consumption facilities; however, if necessary, the Board may set a total contract power limit for these facilities.
No limit on the total electrical installed capacity in operation shall be applied for stand-alone electricity storage facilities; however, if necessary, the Board may set a power limit for the total electrical installed capacity in operation for these facilities.
8. Organized Wholesale Electricity Market and Bilateral Agreement Activities
The aggregator may operate in organized wholesale electricity markets within the scope of the relevant legislation and may sign bilateral agreements in order to balance its portfolio within the framework of the relevant legislation provisions.
The aggregator is responsible for the balancing of its portfolio and the financial settlement of its receivables and payables arising from its participation in the balancing mechanism and settlement, and fulfilling other obligations within the framework of the relevant legislation provisions.
9. Ancillary Services Activities
Ancillary services are the services defined in this Electricity Market Ancillary Services Regulation and the Electricity Network Regulation to be provided by the relevant real/legal persons connected to the transmission system or distribution system in accordance with the Electricity Market Ancillary Services Regulation in order to ensure the reliable operation of the transmission or distribution system and to ensure that electricity is provided to the service under the required quality conditions.
The aggregator may engage in ancillary service activities in the electricity market and shall carry out these activities in accordance with the provisions of the relevant legislation on the procurement of services offered within the scope of ancillary services in the electricity market, the procurement method of these services, their certification, monitoring, control, inspection, realization of payments to be made, sanctions to be applied to the parties and other issues.
Within the scope of the activities to be carried out in the ancillary services and/or balancing power market, the aggregator is obliged to provide technical equipment and data to be requested by TETC.
10. Duties, Authorities, and Responsibilities of Aggregators Under Market Participation Agreements
Aggregators wishing to carry out organized wholesale market activities shall perform their duties in accordance with the Electricity Market Balancing and Settlement Regulation within the scope of their market participation agreements with the market operator.
Aggregators that are obliged to provide ancillary services shall perform their duties in accordance with the provisions of the Electricity Market Ancillary Services Regulation within the scope of the ancillary service agreements with TETC.
The duties, authorities and responsibilities of the market operator, network operators and supply companies shall be applied as set forth in the relevant legislation.
11. Control and Measurement Systems
If the aggregator participates in the balancing power market and/or ancillary services market, it is obliged to establish control systems, including communication infrastructure, which will allow remote control of the consumption facilities in its portfolio and generation facilities if requested by TETC.
If the aggregator participates in the demand side service, it shall establish the communication infrastructure, including control meters, that will allow remote monitoring of the consumption facilities in its portfolio by itself and TETC.
Regarding the investments to be made within this scope, the obligations of the relevant network operator arising from the legislation are reserved. The aggregator shall apply to the relevant network operator for the said investments to be made in generation and consumption facilities and the necessary procedures shall be carried out under the supervision of the relevant network operator within 10 business days following the application. The costs to be incurred within the scope of the investments shall be covered by the aggregator.
Aggregators that will take part in the balancing power market and/or ancillary services are obliged to provide the installation of remote control systems, communication systems infrastructure, data to be provided and other administrative and technical conditions required by TETC within the scope of the relevant legislation.
In addition, aggregators are obliged to provide all information required by the market operator and TETC in a timely and complete manner through measurement systems and/or SCADA, including remote communication infrastructure.
12. Announcement of Balancing Zones and Infrastructure Preparations
TETC will announce the balancing zones until 01/01/2025. Again, preparations for the remote monitoring control or communication infrastructure required for the implementation of the Regulation on Aggregation Activities in the Electricity Market will be completed by TETC until 01/05/2025.
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The Regulation on Aggregation Activities in the Electricity Market (“Regulation on Aggregation Activities”), issued by EMRA concerning the procedures and principles of aggregation activity, was finally published in the Official Gazette dated December 17, 2024, and numbered 32755, to enter into force on January 1, 2025. Furthermore, amendments related to aggregation activities, among other matters, were made to certain regulations listed below:
- Regulation on Balancing and Settlement in the Electricity Market
- Regulation on Licensing in the Electricity Market
- Regulation on Ancillary Services in the Electricity Market
- Regulation on Unlicensed Electricity Generation in the Electricity Market
- Regulation on Renewable Energy Source Guarantee Certificate in the Electricity Market
- Electricity Network Regulation
- Regulation on Certification and Support of Renewable Energy Sources
This article examines the Regulation on Aggregation Activities, which sets out the basic procedures and principles of aggregation activities.
1. Aggregator and Aggregation Activity
Aggregator refers to the legal entity holding an aggregator license or a supply license, provided that it is added in the aggregator license, which has signed an agreement with one or more network users to carry out aggregation activities in the electricity market on behalf of such network users.
Aggregation refers to the market activity carried out by the aggregator within the scope of combining and operating the generation and/or consumption of one or more network users.
2. Persons Authorized to Conduct Aggregation Activities
The aggregation activity is carried out by legal entities holding a supply license, provided that it is added in the aggregator license or license. The provisions of the Electricity Market License Regulation shall apply to the issuance, amendment of licences to these legal entities and other transactions related to licenses.
3. General Principles as to Aggregation Activity
The aggregator shall sign aggregation service agreement with the relevant network users for the market activities to be performed within the scope of aggregation activity. The aggregator shall enter into market participation agreements with the market operator, and ancillary service agreements with the network operator for participation in organized wholesale electricity market activities.
Legal entities holding supply licenses, whose aggregation activity is added in their licenses, cannot conclude aggregation service agreements with the network users in their portfolios from which they supply electricity; aggregators cannot perform wholesale activities within the scope of their licenses. Purchases and sales made for the purpose of balancing its portfolio are not considered within the scope of this wholesale activity restriction.
The aggregator may supply electricity to eligible consumers in its portfolio. In case consumption facilities are added to this portfolio, it is essential that the electricity energy supply of the facilities is carried out by the relevant aggregator. However, if the aggregator providing demand response service does not wish to supply the electricity energy and/or capacity of the consumption facilities in its portfolio, the existing agreements with the suppliers of the consumption facilities in its portfolio shall continue. In this regard, aggregators offering demand response services are given the opportunity to choose.
By applying to the relevant network operator, the aggregator can monitor, analyze and report the generation and consumption data of the network users in its portfolio through appropriate hardware and infrastructures. These activities support the effective conduct of market operations.
The aggregator manages the generation and/or consumption programs of the network users with whom it has an agreement, conducts electricity energy and capacity trading transactions on behalf of these users; and participates in ancillary services. On the other hand, the aggregator is obliged to fulfill all market obligations, including collateral and imbalances, on behalf of the users in its portfolio.
The aggregator may include generation, consumption and storage facilities separately or together in its portfolio.
Turkish Electricity Transmission Corpoartion (“TETC”) may change the balancing zones, provided that it notifies market participants and EMRA at least two months in advance.
4. General Principles Regarding the Participation of Consumption Facilities in Aggregation Activities
The aggregator may aggregate the consumption facilities connected to the distribution or transmission network in its own portfolio. The aggregator is also obliged to provide energy supply to the consumption facilities included in its portfolio within the scope of demand response. If the aggregator does not wish to carry out supply activities within this scope, it shall notify the market operator through the PMS. In the event that the said consumption facilities (i) do not want to carry out this activity later while performing energy supply and (ii) do not want to carry out energy supply activity at the portfolio creation stage or at a later stage but want to carry out this activity later, this arbitrariness is notified through the PMS in accordance with the provisions of the Electricity Market Balancing and Settlement Regulation.
Disputes arising between aggregators and/or consumption facilities and the supplier of the consumption facility due to imbalance costs that may arise from the load shifted in the consumption facilities in their portfolios in line with the instructions received under the demand-side participation service, shall be resolved within the framework of private law provisions.
Consumption facilities in the same balancing zone in the aggregator’s portfolio are considered as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit if they meet the conditions set forth in the relevant legislation. Consumption facilities are registered as separate balancing units and/or ancillary service units according to the type (distribution/transmission) to which they are connected to the network and the balancing zone in which they are located.
Consumption facilities in the same balancing zone in the aggregator portfolio are considered as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit if they meet the conditions set forth in the relevant legislation. Consumption facilities are registered as separate balancing units and/or ancillary service units according to the type (distribution/transmission) to which they are connected to the network and the balancing zone in which they are located.
Additional criteria may be determined by TETC for consumption facilities to be accepted as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit, if needed.
Upon request, the aggregator may register the consumption facilities in its portfolio as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit; however, consumption facilities whose energy supply is not provided by the aggregator are not registered as balancing unit and cannot participate in the balancing power market.
5. General Principles Regarding the Participation of Licensed Electricity Generation Facilities in Aggregation Activities
The aggregator may include licensed and operational electricity generation facilities connected to the distribution or transmission network, as well as electricity storage units and/or facilities covered under the Regulation on Storage Activities in the Electricity Market, in its portfolio.
The aggregator may include in its portfolio licensed electricity generation facilities with an operational electrical installed capacity of 100 MW or less. These electricity generation facilities included in its portfolio are accepted as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit if they meet the conditions specified in the relevant legislation.
In the aggregator's portfolio, generation facilities that are located in the same balancing zone and have an electrical installed capacity of 100 MW or less and are not balancing units are accepted as balancing units and/or ancillary service units if they meet the conditions specified in the relevant legislation.
Generation facilities are registered as separate balancing units and/or ancillary service units according to their connection to the distribution or transmission network.
Additional criteria may be determined by TETC for licensed electricity generation facilities to be accepted as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit.
At the request of the aggregator, licensed electricity generation facilities in its portfolio may be registered as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit if they meet the conditions specified in the relevant legislation.
6. General Principles Regarding the Participation of Unlicensed Electricity Generation Facilities in Aggregation Activities
The aggregator may aggregate unlicensed electricity generation facilities that are connected to the distribution or transmission network and have completed their ten-year purchase guarantee in its own portfolio to manage surplus energy.
No installed power limit is applied for unlicensed electricity generation facilities on a facility basis. However, if necessary, the Energy Market Regulatory Board (“Board”) may set lower and/or upper installed power limits.
Unlicensed electricity generation facilities in the aggregator's portfolio and in the same balancing zone are accepted as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit if they meet the conditions specified in the relevant legislation. These facilities are registered as separate balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit according to the status of the distribution or transmission network to which they are connected.
Additional criteria may be determined by TETC for unlicensed electricity generation facilities to be accepted as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit.
Upon the request of the aggregator, unlicensed electricity generation facilities in its portfolio may be registered as balancing unit and/or ancillary service unit, provided that they meet the conditions specified in the relevant legislation.
7. Portfolio Limits in Aggregation Activity
The total electrical installed capacity of licensed and unlicensed electricity generation facilities in the aggregator's portfolio cannot exceed 2000 MW. Within this 2000 MW upper limit, the share of unlicensed electricity generation facilities in the aggregator's portfolio cannot exceed 500 MW.
In case the total installed capacity of licensed electricity generation facilities exceeds the 2000 MW limit, the aggregator shall remove the licensed electricity generation facilities from the portfolio within the following billing period, effective from the next billing period, until the specified limit is met. If this action is not carried out within the specified period, the market operator will begin the removal process starting with the most recently added licensed electricity generation facility in the aggregator's portfolio and will continue removing facilities until the limit condition is met. The facilities removed from the portfolio will be recorded in the portfolios of licensed market participants.
If the total installed capacity of the unlicensed electricity generation facilities exceeds the 500 MW limit, the aggregator removes the unlicensed electricity generation facilities from the portfolio until the limit is met in the following billing period, effective from the next billing period, and informs the network operator about the change. If this action is not taken, the market operator shall notify the network operator, which made the last update, to remove the unlicensed generation facility from the relevant portfolio in an amount not less than the excess amount. Within three business days following the notification, the relevant network operator carries out the portfolio reduction process, effective from the second billing period following the exceedance, and notifies the market operator via the PMS with updated data.
If the total installed capacity of licensed and unlicensed electricity generation facilities exceeds the 2000 MW limit, the aggregator shall remove licensed and/or unlicensed electricity generation facilities from the portfolio within the following billing period, effective from the next billing period, until the specified limit is met. If the transaction is not performed within this period, the market operator shall start from the last licensed electricity generation facility included in the aggregator's portfolio and remove the licensed electricity generation facilities from the portfolio until the limit condition is met. The licensed electricity generation facilities removed from the portfolio are recorded in the portfolio of the licensed market participants.
In the event that the licensed electricity generation facility in the aggregator's portfolio exceeds the 100 MW electrical installed capacity limit, the relevant electricity generation facility is removed from the portfolio, effective from the next billing period. The licensed electricity generation facilities removed from the portfolio shall be recorded in the portfolio of the licensed market participants.
No consumption and/or contract power limit is applied for consumption facilities; however, if necessary, the Board may set a total contract power limit for these facilities.
No limit on the total electrical installed capacity in operation shall be applied for stand-alone electricity storage facilities; however, if necessary, the Board may set a power limit for the total electrical installed capacity in operation for these facilities.
8. Organized Wholesale Electricity Market and Bilateral Agreement Activities
The aggregator may operate in organized wholesale electricity markets within the scope of the relevant legislation and may sign bilateral agreements in order to balance its portfolio within the framework of the relevant legislation provisions.
The aggregator is responsible for the balancing of its portfolio and the financial settlement of its receivables and payables arising from its participation in the balancing mechanism and settlement, and fulfilling other obligations within the framework of the relevant legislation provisions.
9. Ancillary Services Activities
Ancillary services are the services defined in this Electricity Market Ancillary Services Regulation and the Electricity Network Regulation to be provided by the relevant real/legal persons connected to the transmission system or distribution system in accordance with the Electricity Market Ancillary Services Regulation in order to ensure the reliable operation of the transmission or distribution system and to ensure that electricity is provided to the service under the required quality conditions.
The aggregator may engage in ancillary service activities in the electricity market and shall carry out these activities in accordance with the provisions of the relevant legislation on the procurement of services offered within the scope of ancillary services in the electricity market, the procurement method of these services, their certification, monitoring, control, inspection, realization of payments to be made, sanctions to be applied to the parties and other issues.
Within the scope of the activities to be carried out in the ancillary services and/or balancing power market, the aggregator is obliged to provide technical equipment and data to be requested by TETC.
10. Duties, Authorities, and Responsibilities of Aggregators Under Market Participation Agreements
Aggregators wishing to carry out organized wholesale market activities shall perform their duties in accordance with the Electricity Market Balancing and Settlement Regulation within the scope of their market participation agreements with the market operator.
Aggregators that are obliged to provide ancillary services shall perform their duties in accordance with the provisions of the Electricity Market Ancillary Services Regulation within the scope of the ancillary service agreements with TETC.
The duties, authorities and responsibilities of the market operator, network operators and supply companies shall be applied as set forth in the relevant legislation.
11. Control and Measurement Systems
If the aggregator participates in the balancing power market and/or ancillary services market, it is obliged to establish control systems, including communication infrastructure, which will allow remote control of the consumption facilities in its portfolio and generation facilities if requested by TETC.
If the aggregator participates in the demand side service, it shall establish the communication infrastructure, including control meters, that will allow remote monitoring of the consumption facilities in its portfolio by itself and TETC.
Regarding the investments to be made within this scope, the obligations of the relevant network operator arising from the legislation are reserved. The aggregator shall apply to the relevant network operator for the said investments to be made in generation and consumption facilities and the necessary procedures shall be carried out under the supervision of the relevant network operator within 10 business days following the application. The costs to be incurred within the scope of the investments shall be covered by the aggregator.
Aggregators that will take part in the balancing power market and/or ancillary services are obliged to provide the installation of remote control systems, communication systems infrastructure, data to be provided and other administrative and technical conditions required by TETC within the scope of the relevant legislation.
In addition, aggregators are obliged to provide all information required by the market operator and TETC in a timely and complete manner through measurement systems and/or SCADA, including remote communication infrastructure.
12. Announcement of Balancing Zones and Infrastructure Preparations
TETC will announce the balancing zones until 01/01/2025. Again, preparations for the remote monitoring control or communication infrastructure required for the implementation of the Regulation on Aggregation Activities in the Electricity Market will be completed by TETC until 01/05/2025.
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