Public consultation Task Force Princess Elisabeth Zone

Context

This public consultation is a voluntary initiative by Elia and aims at receiving comments from stakeholders on the different topics presented in this document.

This report covers the main topics addressed in Task Force PEZ and ad-hoc workshop:

1. Connection requirements: summary of technical infrastructure aspects;
2. Dynamic & Harmonic: amendments and clarification regarding the technical specifications related to Dynamic & Harmonic phenomena;
3. Market design: justification of the target market design including the role of an offshore bidding zone, the implications of advanced hybrid coupling, and the importance of the implicit price coupling with Great- Britain;
4. Balancing design: analysis of the planned offshore developments on real time system operation and balancing, the proposed for mitigation measures to handle storm and ramping events and to deal with the hybrid interconnection design, and the implications for the offshore bidding zone on balancing market design.

Period

Elia invites all stakeholders to submit comments and suggestions. The consultation period runs from 20 November 2023 to 22 January 2024.

After the consultation period, Elia will consider these comments and update the consultation report. In addition to the finalized report, Elia will publish the reactions of the market parties (including names) on the website, unless it is explicitly stated that the contribution is to be considered confidential.