TenneT has established a single-buyer market for regulating and reserve capacity
in order to perform its tasks in the area of transmission and system services. On
this single-buyer market, market parties can offer regulating or reserve capacity
to TenneT. This concerns surplus capacity that market parties produce over or consume
under the volumes reported in their E Programmes.
TenneT uses this reserve capacity to resolve transmission restriction and to provide
assistance to other countries.
The volume calculation is based on:
The direction (+/-) of the bid:
TenneT TSO enters into transactions based on the volume of offered reserve capacity
for other purposes, in each direction according to the demand and in bid price order.
The data are shown per day, per Programme Time Unit (PTU) and per direction:
The settled volumes of reserve capacity for other purposes are listed here:
The following documents offer a more detailed explanation: