Update on IFA Actions Congestion Management Guideline Workshop Thursday 11th January, CRE Offices, P

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Update on IFA ActionsCongestion Management
Guideline WorkshopThursday 11th January, CRE
Offices, Paris

• Simon McVeigh, IFA Manager, National Grid
  Interconnectors Limited
• On behalf of RTE NGIL
• 3rd Stakeholder Group Meeting, Regional
  Initiative
• Thursday 1st February, DTI Offices, London

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Actions on IFA

• Reserve Prices
• Re-drafting of IFA Access Rules underway
• To coincide with forthcoming consultation on
  other aspects
• UIoSI
• Options A B for discussion
• Intraday
• Options 1 2 for discussion
• Capacity Firmness
• TSOs shall optimise the degree to which
  capacity is firm
• IFA Availability Reliability data collation
• Stakeholders to provide cost impact data
• Transparency
• In scope for compliance with CM Guideline
• Data archival etc in scope of software
  requirements

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UIoSI

• Option A Implement UIoSI without changing
  allocation process
• IFA capacity currently offered as a whole day
  product ( MW / day)
• i.e. nomination right for 24 hours (band of
  capacity)
• MW nominated across any part of the 24hr day
  firmly retained by User
• MW unused across whole of 24hr period sold into
  Daily Auction
• Compliance with CM Guideline?
• Implementation late-2007?
• Limited impact on efficient use

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UIoSI

• Option B Implement with new daily allocation
  process
• More granular IFA capacity offered (e.g. MW /
  hr)
• i.e. nomination right for 1 or more hours
• MW nominated across any part of 1hr period firmly
  retained by User
• MW unused across whole of 1hr period sold into
  Daily Auction
• Requires development of new daily allocation
  process and tools, allowing allocation of hourly
  products. Not possible before mid-2008
• Organisational impacts on the TSOs to be
  addressed
• procurement, opportunity of the creation of an
  Auction Office
• Not directly required by CM Guidelines
• Greater impact on efficient use

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Intraday

• Option 1 Interim then Final Capacity Platform
  Arrangements
• CM Guideline allows 13 months for implementation
  of software system
• Interim solution may accelerate compliance 3-6
  months? 2007?
• Interim solution prorata ? Intraday auction ?
• Capacity Platform opportunity and feasibility
  share results of identical studies performed on
  continental Europe
• Specification would be developed in cooperation
  with TSOs and Users
• Implementation costs could be approximately
  double who pays?
• Final Capacity Platform arrangements could be
  delayed by resource conflict
• Option 2 Implement Final Capacity Platform
  Arrangements Directly
• Capacity Platform opportunity and feasibility
  share results of identical studies performed on
  continental Europe
• Specification would be developed in cooperation
  with TSOs and Users
• Single implementation, competitively tendered,
  lower costs

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IFA Summary unplanned outage data 2002 2007
2006/07 data YTD (April December 2006