OPCOM: PMC Prezentare ENLCM - Registration, Agreement, Procedure, Regulation
Registration at Electricity market for large consumers
At the Electricity Market for large consumers can be registered:
- Producers, including those to whom may apply the provisions of art. 14 paragraph (6) of the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 27/2022 on the measures applicable to final consumers in the electricity and natural gas market between April 1, 2022 - March 31, 2023, as well as for the amendment and completion of some normative acts in the field of energy, directly or by aggregation;
- Storage service operators that sell stored electricity, directly or by aggregation;
- Large final consumers of electricity directly or by aggregation (consumer or aggregation of consumers with an annual consumption of more than 70.000 MWh).
Applicants will submit to OPCOM a letter of intent regarding the registration as a Participant at the Electricity market for large consumers, along with the following documents:
- Participation agreement for the Electricity Market for large consumers, two original copies, signed by the legal representative or one copy digitally signed;
- Unique Bailment Agreement for USB Token key required for access to the trading platform, two original copies, signed by the legal representative or one copy digitally signed;
Note: The Bailment Agreement is unique for access to CMBC-CN, DAM, GCM and LCM. If the participant has already signed the Bailment Agreement for at least one of the markets, only the annex to the Bailment Agreement can be filled.
If the applicant is already registered on another centralized electricity market, will submit, as the case may be, only the additional specific documents to the Electricity Market for large consumers that were not previously submitted for registration for another centralized market, along with a statement on their own responsibility that the documents submitted in the previously registration process/processes are still in effect, fully applicable and do not require updating.
If the applicant is not yet registered to another centralized electricity market, he will submit all the specific documents to the Electricity Market for large consumers (LCM documents).
Note: To confirm the status of large consumer, the interested companies must submit in accordance with the provisions of the Procedure for the registration of participants in the centralized electricity markets administered by OPCOM SA - Annex 3, point 18, - „The aggregator, which combines the tasks of several end consumers, have to transmit the list of those end consumers and the total approved power based on the sum of the approved powers of the places of consumption of the aggregated final consumers which it includes as an annex to the participation agreement”. and point 22 - The document on the classification in the consumption category accepted by the Regulation on the organized framework for contracting electricity by large final consumers ”(Technical approval for connection to confirm an approved power greater than 8 MW).
The steps to be taken by an applicant in the process of registering as a participant at the Electricity Market for large consumers are as follows:
- Submission of a letter of intent to OPCOM, accompanied by the specific documents to the Electricity Market for large consumers (as the case may be);
- Payment of the invoice corresponding to the payment obligation for the value of the regulated charge - the registration component (as the case may be).
Regulatory framework for the Electricity market for large consumers:
- Procedure regarding participants’ registration at organized electricity markets administered by OPCOM S.A.;
- Regulation (consolidated form) on the organized framework for contracting electricity by large final consumers;
- ANRE Order no. 73/11.05.2022 for the amendment of the Regulation on the organized framework for contracting electricity by large final consumers, approved by the Order of the President of the National Energy Regulatory Authority no. 65/ 31.03.2022;
- ANRE Order no. 65/ 31.03.2022 for the approval of the "Regulation on the organized framework for contracting electricity by large final consumers";
- Participation Agreement in the Bilateral Contracts Markets
- Addendum to the Participation Agreement – template for recording any modification of market participants' identification data;
- Procedure concerning the functioning of the Electricity market for large consumers, version 1;
- Standard Contract to buy-sell the electricity on Electricity market for large consumers;
- Standard Contract to buy-sell the electricity on Electricity market for large consumers (with the option of varying the contracted power per settlement interval and the formula for adjusting the price);
- Tariffs applied by the centralized electricity markets administered by OPCOM S.A.;
- Unique Bailment Agreement for USB Token key necessary for access the trading platform;
- LCM Market Participant’s Guide (NFF);
- ActivID ActivClient Installation Manual Guide;
- Model for initiang buying offer on Electricity market for large consumers;
- Model for initiating selling offer on Electricity market for large consumers;
Note! In order to comply with the GDPR requirements, we kindly ask you to send the proposed Contract to sell-buy the electricity on LMC that are sent together with the initiating offer in order to be published on OPCOM’s website, without containing unsolicited personal data, espacially name, surname, telephone and email address. |
- Model of document for the submisson of the Trading session schedule;
- Model of document for the submisson of the Selection criteria of the participants with response offers.
31.05.2022
We announce the extension until June 20th, 2022 of the transitional period for maintaining the quality of LCM participant based on the Market participation Agreement signed for the LCM mechanism, form applicable until April 30th, 2022. Therefore, in order to maintain the quality of participant at LCM, the Market participation Agreement for LCM in the form applicable since May 1st, 2022, can be submitted until June 20th, 2022.
01.05.2022
IMPORTANT! Update of the LCM Participation Agreement.
- Following the implementation of the provisions of ANRE Order no. 65 of March 31st 2022 for the approval of the Regulation on the organized framework for contracting electricity by large final consumers, published in the Official Journal no. 320 of April 1st 2022, the participants registered at the Electricity Market for large final consumers until 30.04.2022 will still hold the quality of participant on this market, being fully applicable the provisions of the Participation Agreement on the Electricity market for large consumers for a transitional period of one month, until 31.05.2022.
- During the transitional period of one month, in order to maintain the quality of LCM participant, the registered participants will have to submit the Participation Agreement on the Electricity market for large consumers, signed in the applicable form starting with 01.05.2022.
- LCM participants who do not accept the provisions of the Participation Agreement on the Electricity market for large consumer, in the form applicable from 01.05.2022, may decide to withdraw from the LCM market in compliance with the provisions of specific operational procedures, by sending a requests to OPCOM S.A.