Validation of year-ahead availability plans within outage coordination regions
Article 98
1. Each TSO shall analyse whether any outage planning incompatibility arises when taking into account all the preliminary year-ahead availability plans. 2. In the absence of outage planning incompatibilities, all TSOs of an outage coordination region shall jointly validate the year-ahead availability plans for all relevant assets of that outage coordination region. 3. If a TSO detects an outage planning incompatibility, the involved TSOs of the outage coordination region(s) concerned shall jointly identify a solution in coordination with the concerned outage planning agents, DSOs and CDSOs, using the means at their disposal, while respecting to the extent possible the availability plans submitted by outage planning agents, which are neither a TSO taking part in an outage coordination region, nor a DSO or a CDSO, and developed in accordance with Articles 95 and 96. Where a solution is identified, all TSOs of the concerned outage coordination region(s) shall update and validate the year-ahead availability plans for all relevant assets. 4. Where no solution is found for an outage planning incompatibility each concerned TSO, subject to approval by the competent regulatory authority where the Member State so provides, shall: (a) force to ‘available’ status all the ‘unavailable’ or ‘testing’ statuses for the relevant assets involved in an outage planning incompatibility during the period concerned; and (b) notify to the relevant regulatory authorities, the affected DSOs or CDSOs, if any, and the affected outage planning agents of the actions taken including the rationale for such actions, the impact reported by affected outage planning agents and the DSOs or CDSOs where relevant. 5. All TSOs of the concerned outage coordination regions shall consequently update and validate the year-ahead availability plans for all relevant assets.