Balancing services are defined, procured and activated in positive and negative direction separately:
Balancing service |
Availability |
Response time |
Max activation duration |
Time between the two activations |
Max number of activations |
Min power |
Grid user |
aFRR capacity /balancing energy |
100% of offer time |
100% of power output within 5 minutes |
Continuous |
- |
- |
1MW |
TSO & DSO |
mFRR capacity /balancing energy |
100% of offer time |
100% of power output within 15 minutes |
Defined in Balancing Service Agreement |
1MW |
TSO & DSO |
- Methodology for determining balancing capacity prices (HOPS 7/2016) (available only in Croatian language)
- Rules for determining the balancing energy price caps (Annex 1. of Electricity Balancing Rules, November 2019.)