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How to become a Balance Responsible Party

A Balance Responsible Party buys and sells electricity on electricity exchanges and can handle balance responsibility for end customers. Balance Responsible Parties (BRP) can besides their balance responsibility also deliver ancillary servies, but this is not a requirement. Balance Service Providers (BSP) can deliver ancillary services with limited energy supplies without any balance responsibility.

Requirements for Balance Responsible Parties (BRP)

  1. To become a balance responsibility party your company must be familiar with the regulations for balance responsibility, which you can read here (only Danish version).

  2. The company must be VAT registered in Denmark or an EU or EEA country.

  3. The company must enter into an agreement with eSett. Click here to read more about eSetts requirements and to register. 

  4. The company must have an EIC-number, which can be acquired by filling out this form and sending it to eic-administration@energinet.dk.

  5. The company must have a GLN-number, which can be acquired here.

  6. The company must provide financial security through a credit of 1.000.000 DKK. Fill out this form and send it to electricitymarket@energinet.dk to start the credit assessment process.

  7. If your company wish to deliver ancillary services, it must have prequalified units. Read more about prequalification and tests here.

  8. If your company wish to deliver ancillary services and have units that deliver more than 10 MWh, the units needs to be registrered in Datahub. Read more about Datahub and registration here.

For balance responsibility parties delivering ancillary services 

  • Balance responsibility parties with production units that supply ancillary services are required to comply with Bekendtgørelse om IT-beredskab for el- og naturgassektorerne.

  • All companies supplying electricity in Denmark are required to comply with the technical regulations, which can be read here.

  • Balance responsible parties can test their systems against Datahub. You can read more about this here.

 

Requirements for delivering ancillary services with limited energy supplies (BSP)

  1. To deliver ancillary services with a limited energy supply, your company must be familiar with the regulations for balance responsibility, which you can read here.

  2. The company must be VAT registered in Denmark or an EU or EEA country.

  3. The company must enter into an agreement with eSett. Click here to read more about eSetts requirements and to register. 

  4. The company must have an EIC-number, which can be acquired by filling out this form and sending it to eic-administration@energinet.dk.

  5. The company must have a GLN-number, which can be acquired here.

  6. The company must provide financial security through a credit of 100.000 DKK. Fill out this form and send it to electricitymarket@energinet.dk to start the credit assessment process. 

  7. The company must have prequalified units. Read more about prequalification and tests here.

  8. If your company have units that deliver more than 10 MWh, the units needs to be registrered in Datahub. Read more about Datahub and registration here.

 

Ancillary services 

If your company wishes to deliver ancillary services, either as a Balance Responsibility Party (BRP) with access to the ancillary markets or as a Balance Service Provider (BSP) delivering ancillary services with limited energy supply, you can read more here.

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