Annual report on load-frequency control
Article 16
1. By 30 September, ENTSO for Electricity shall publish an annual report on load-frequency control based on the information provided by the TSOs in accordance with paragraph 2. The annual report on load-frequency control shall include the information listed in paragraph 2 for each Member State. 2. Starting from 14 September 2018, the TSOs of each Member State shall notify to ENTSO for Electricity, by 1 March every year, the following information for the previous year: (a) the identification of the LFC blocks, LFC areas and monitoring areas in the Member State; (b) the identification of LFC blocks that are not in the Member State and that contain LFC areas and monitoring areas that are in the Member State; (c) the identification of the synchronous areas each Member State belongs to; (d) the data related to the frequency quality evaluation criteria for each synchronous area and each LFC block in subparagraphs (a), (b) and (c) covering each month of at least 2 previous calendar years; (e) the FCR obligation and the initial FCR obligation of each TSO operating within the Member State covering each month of at least 2 previous calendar years; and (f) a description and date of implementation of any mitigation measures and ramping requirements to alleviate deterministic frequency deviations taken in the previous calendar year in accordance with Articles 137 and 138, in which TSOs of the Member State were involved. 3. The data provided by the TSOs shall cover the preceding year. The information concerning synchronous areas, LFC blocks, LFC areas and monitoring areas in subparagraphs (a), (b) and (c) shall be reported once. Where these areas change, this information shall be reported by 1 March of the following year. 4. Where appropriate, all TSOs of a synchronous area or LFC block shall cooperate in collecting the data listed in paragraph 2.