Transfer of balancing capacity
Article 34
1. Within the geographical area in which the procurement of balancing capacity has taken place, the TSOs shall allow balancing service providers to transfer their obligations to provide balancing capacity. The concerned TSO or TSOs may request an exemption where contracting periods for balancing capacity pursuant to Article 32(2)(b) are strictly less than one week. 2. The transfer of balancing capacity shall be allowed at least until one hour before the start of the delivery day. 3. The transfer of balancing capacity shall be allowed if the following conditions are met: (a) the receiving balancing service provider has passed the qualification process for the balancing capacity for which the transfer is performed; (b) the transfer of balancing capacity is not expected to endanger operational security; (c) the transfer of balancing capacity does not exceed the operational limits set out in Chapters 1 and 2 of Part IV Title VIII of Regulation (EU) 2017/1485. 4. In case the transfer of balancing capacity requires the use of cross-zonal capacity, such transfer shall only be allowed in case: (a) the cross-zonal capacity required to perform the transfer is already available from previous allocation processes pursuant to Chapter 2 of Title IV; (b) the cross-zonal capacity is available pursuant to the methodology for calculating the probability of available cross-zonal capacity after intraday cross-zonal gate closure time in accordance with Article 33(6). 5. If a TSO does not allow the transfer of balancing capacity, the concerned TSO shall explain the reason for the rejection to the balancing service providers involved.